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Who is Farhad Javaheri Yar? |
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Friday, 25 November 2005 |
 In a report by the Directorate of the NLA’s Counter
Intelligence Ministry about Farhad Javaheri Yar we read: “He had an
auto shop and came to Iraq from Pakistan in 1989 and joined the
Mojahedin. In 1994, he became a security suspect due to his pledge to
cooperate with the regime and his suspicious exit from a prison in
Zahedan. From then on, he was always complaining over what he said was
'the organization's suspicion of me as an infiltrator.’” On November
26, 1995, he stole a wire clipper and attempted to run away from the
Ashraf Camp.
It was later discovered that he had stolen a car from an Iraqi national
by misusing the NLA’s ID card and the military uniform and wanted to go
to the Iraqi town of Tikrit but he was caught by the Police. He then
requested to be pardoned. In his request he admitted to have
“intentions like a revolutionary guards” and “to have committed an
offence by trying to escape." He promised that he would never again
engage in such deviant behaviour. One year later, after being assured
that there will be no punishments, he wrote: “Due to personal
difficulties I am not able to continue the path. Therefore I request to
leave the organization and start an ordinary life. Please make the
necessary arrangements.” At the same time, when he ran away and on the
same evening (Sunday evening, October 27, 1995), a car bomb near the
central office of the People’s Mojahedin in Baghdad exploded and
inflicted extensive damages to the surrounding buildings.
- In his letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Mr. Mahmoud Massoudi wrote, “Five days after my eight hour interview
and discussion with Sobhani, he contacted me and said that he wanted to
give me two other statements by Mojahedin defectors to be edited and
typed and returned to him for release. Although this was a strange
request I accepted and told him to fax the texts. Two days later, on
Monday, August 5, he faxed to me a 10-page typed statement jointly
signed by Javaheri Yar and Edward Termadoyan. On the statement, some
corrections were made by hand and it was clear that the original text
had neither come from Sobhani nor from Javaheri Yar and Termadoyan, but
was received in typed format from outside Germany. It was clear that it
came directly from the Intelligence Ministry in Tehran. The scenario by
these two in this statement was similar to the scenario given by
Sobhani. They said “they were opposed to the Mojahedin” and that after
their arrest by the organization they had been handed over to the Iraqi
authorities and then to the Iranian regime. In ambiguous circumstances
they had managed to escape from the Intelligence Ministry and came to
Europe.
- The same scenario was repeated by another person named Hamidreza
Barhoun a few days later. Whoever is familiar with the horrific prisons
in Iran would know clearly that how improbable are the chances of
running away for the political prisoners, especially for this many
number of people. The number of political prisoners who have managed to
run away in the past 20 years was no more than a few. How could in such
a short period of time a series of prisoners run away and reach Europe
rapidly safe and sound. Why thousands of Iranian refugees who are
stranded in neighboring countries like Turkey, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and
UAE have had to wait for years to seek refuge in Europe?
- The joint statement by Javaheri Yar and Termadoyan was as clumsy as
their story for their escape. Javaheri Yar claimed, “I was beaten six
hours daily on average for the first two years and in September 1995, I
had to face mock execution… The prison had been encircled with electric
cable and the field was mined and guard dogs were used. I was in
solitary for three years and interrogations went on seven days a week
from 6 am to 10 pm.”
It is not clear why the Mojahedin should hand over such a person who
had been “tortured” to the enemy in good health to be used against the
organization?
- It is interesting that when on August 5, 1995, the Counter-Terrorism
Committee of the NCRI stated that the Iranian regime was about to use
the services of Javaheri Yar and Termadoyan, the mullahs' Intelligence
Ministry had to hold off issuing a joint statement on behalf of the two
for a week.
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