 In an interview with France's FR3 television he
introduced himself as "former head of personal protection of Maryam
Rajavi and is now a political refugee in the Netherlands" and claimed
that "he was a member of the People's Mojahedin for 15 years" and as
"the group diverted to sectarianism," he decided to leave the
organization.
This is while he had never been "the head
of personal protection of Mrs. Rajavi" ever and the falsity of this
claim and that "he has been a member of the Mojahedin for 15 years" can
be proven in any impartial trial or investigation with ample undeniable
documents and evidence. On the contrary to what he has claimed, he has
never had a responsible role in the resistance movement. He was like
thousands of other combatants a member of a protection guard rota for a
short period of time for one of the bases of the Mojahedin in Iraq.
During the bombings of Iraq in 1990, he said that for physical reasons
he could no longer remain in the NLA and asked to be transferred to
Baghdad to lead an ordinary life which was agreed.
In a
letter his wife, Mohtaram Babai, wrote: "As you know, after the bombing
of Ashraf camp, the organization transferred me (she was a combatant of
the NLA), my husband and my children, upon our request, to an urban
base called Jalalzadeh in central Baghdad for more protection and care.
During this period, in addition to everything that the combatants
received, we enjoyed special care and facilities twice as much as what
was given to any other combatant. On top of all these, we were given a
private apartment, a family car and received 1000 Iraqi dinars per
month."
In this letter, Mohtaram Babai asked to be
transferred to the United States together with her family. On the same
day, that is October 28, 1992, Karim Haggi wrote a letter stating:
"Before the arrangements for my family and I to go to the United States
are made, will you please take us back to Ashraf Camp for work and
accommodate us in the camp, even if it is for a six months period,
in order to remove the label of defectors in face of the anti human
enemy's intentions and its surrogates abroad and traitor defector
mercenaries."
In January 1993, Haggi and his wife and
children were sent to France with their expenses for the trip and stay
in France paid in full by the Mojahedin Organization. Within a few
months more than 67,000 French Francs were paid to him by the
Mojahedin. But after a few months he decided to go to the Netherlands
and apply for asylum in that country. Therefore, since May 1993 he had
no contacts with the Mojahedin.
In 1994 he was bought
by the Intelligence Ministry of the regime and from 1995 he was in
regular contact with a person by the name of Maqsoudi at the regime's
consulate in the Netherlands. It was then that after three years
leaving Iraq he suddenly 'remembered' that he was imprisoned and
tortured by the Mojahedin during the years he was in Iraq. The Iranians
residing in the Netherlands know him very well as a hated figure,
especially for his corrupt and immoral relations which led to his
wife's suicide. He tried in vain, with the help of the Intelligence
Ministry to make political and propaganda gains against the Resistance
with his wife's death. The state-run dailies like Kayhan and Resalat
quoted Karim Haggi in December 1995 saying that his wife was tortured
in the Mojahedin's prisons and went to the Netherlands after her
release from the Mojahedin's jails and in spite of months of treatment,
she eventually died. Of course, the mullahs' SAVAK (secret police) do
not explain how after three years of living with Karim Haggi in Europe,
Mohtaram Babai suddenly died, as a result of 'tortures' by the
Mojahedin, without her saying anything about it.
But what are the facts? Mohtaram
Babai's last letter which contained most of the information about the
reasons of her suicide is in the possession of the Dutch police.
Jamshid Tafrishi who cooperated with the Intelligence Ministry and was
a family friend of Karim Haggi said: "A few days after the Iranian New
Years day in 1995 I contacted Karim Haggi at home to congratulate him
for the new year. Mohtaram Babai, Karim Haggi's wife answered the phone
and said he was not at home. When I asked how she was, she was choking
and talked with a broken voice and said: "I came from border region in
Iraq because of Karim, I personally did not want to leave the
organization but in any way I was ready to come to the Netherlands for
him and Maral (their daughter). But since we have arrived in the
Netherlands he has turned life for me into hell. And now he has made
his relations with ***… public. Believe me sometimes I decide to commit
suicide to rid myself from all these shame and disgrace, and have so
far gone to the brink of killing myself several times." It was a few
days after this telephone call that Mohtaram hung herself from the
ceiling in the bathroom of her residence."
The
responsibility of espionage network "Payvand" which has been launched
by the Intelligence Ministry against the Iranian Resistance in the
Netherlands is with Haggi. Karim Haggi receives money and other
facilities directly from the Intelligence Ministry and is in contact
with the rest of known agents of the Intelligence Ministry in Europe
and the Intelligence Ministry publishes the "Peyvand" publication
against the Iranian Resistance by Karim Haggi and a number of other
mercenaries like Mehdi Khoshhal and Nadereh Afshari
In
his revelations, Tafrishi said: "in April 1996, Karim Haggi met with
Saeed Emami in Singapore and Peyvand publications was used as a cover
to receive money for members of the network. After releasing the first
issue of Peyvand in July 1997, Amir Hossein Taqavi (the European
General Director of the Intelligence Ministry who was in charge of the
general office of the special operations who directly guided the
terrorist operations abroad) contacted me and asked for my views on the
publication."
The extent of cooperations and contacts
between Karim Haggi and the Intelligence Ministry of the regime against
Iranian dissidents in Europe was so widespread that the Police
authorities in that country approached him and
warned him on the continuation of such activities and contacts.
Towards
the end of 1999 the
Intelligence Ministry tried by discredited stage-managing to claim that
the Mojahedin had raided Haggi's house and office in Germany and the
Netherlands and ransacked them. The last time was on March 28, 1998. He made a judicial complaint against the
Mojahedin in the Netherlands in Arnheim, the city he resided. But the
prosecutor of the city officially announced that "he did not consider
the complaint to merit punitive investigation process in the
Netherlands," therefore he would refrain from pursuing the complaint.
Karim
Haggi was one of the organizers of the Intelligence Ministry's seminar
on April 18, 2003 against the Mojahedin in Paris. During Mrs. Rajavi's
detention in Paris, he was involved in a coordinated campaign trying to
fill the empty judicial file with false propaganda against the
Mojahedin. He told the French daily La Croix: "Having Mrs. Rajavi in
jail gives us hope to live in Europe!" |