For many years, the MOIS used the services of Jamshid Tafrishi, whom it claimed was a “senior PMOI member.” The MOIS used him to establish contact with activists and artists who were cooperating with the National Council of Resistance of Iran and encourage them to leave the ranks of the Resistance. Tafrishi also played a vital role in the regime’s anti-Mojahedin propaganda, including “the imprisonment, torture and harassment of former PMOI members,” “PMOI’s involvement in the suppression of Iraqi Kurds” and “acting as the go-between for the Iraqi regime to purchase chemical and nuclear materials.”

Contrary to Tehran’s propaganda, Tafrishi was not even a PMOI member, let alone a senior official. He went to Turkey in 1988 and contacted PMOI support associations, asking to go to Iraq to join the National Liberation Amy of Iran. He also sent a request in writing to the NLA, and ultimately went to Iraq in May 1989. Once the Kuwaiti crisis began, he wrote a letter to his superior that “in light of personal problems and preoccupations, I cannot carry on with my responsibilities in the NLA. I, therefore, request that you send me to another country.” 

Several days later, he formally requested to be sent to a refugee camp run by the United Nations High Commissioners Office for Refugees. In January 1991, amid the heavy bombing of Iraq, he went to a PMOI office in Baghdad and requested financial help to leave Iraq. Tafrishi received 600 dinars (1,800 US dollars on then the official exchange rate). He ultimately went to Jordan and then to Turkey.

Despite a decade of active collaboration in the MOIS misinformation campaign against the PMOI. Tafrishi wrote a detailed letter to then-UN Human Rights Commission Special Representative on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran, Prof. Maurice Danby Copithorne and revealed his role and activities as an MOIS operative.

Tafrishi also submitted an affidavit to Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia. He wrote:

Until last year, I pretended that I was an opponent of the Iranian regime, while I was in fact advancing the assignments given by the Iranian regime's Intelligence Ministry. In these years, I actively participated in the Iranian regime conspiracy to accuse PMOI of human rights violations. I was also engaged in other plans such as providing false information about PMOI to foreign governments, particularly alleging that PMOI is supported by the Iraqi government to tarnish the image of the organization.

In these years, the Intelligence Ministry invited me to Singapore four times to meet the most senior officials of the Intelligence Ministry. Singapore is one of the locations the Intelligence Ministry uses to meet its agents. Once it became clear that I was meeting with Intelligence Ministry's officials… I traveled secretly to Iran in a trip arranged by the Intelligence Ministry and met with the Ministry's officials in Tehran and Shiraz. From 1995 until 1999, I received a total of 72,000 dollars from the Intelligence Ministry as payment for my work on their behalf.

I met Saeed Emami (a.k.a Shamshiri), the number-2 man in the Intelligence Ministry for eight years, who was behind the murder of at least 100 dissidents in Iran. The latest of these serial killings was exposed in November 1998, when Dariush Forouhar and his wife Parvaneh were brutally murdered in their home. Emami was also responsible for the assassination of dozens of dissidents abroad. I also met Mostafa Kazemi (a.k.a Sanjari, Emami's deputy), Amir Hossein Taqavi (responsible for the PMOI case in the Intelligence Ministry, also involved in the political killings) and Hossein Shariatmadari (a deputy Intelligence Minister and the current editor of the government-controlled Kayhan newspaper). My contact with the Ministry was a man by the name of Reza who happened to be an assistant to Saeed Emami. It was revealed later that his name was Morteza Qobbeh. He was Emami's other deputy and had the task of recruiting those who dropped out of the Mojahedin Organization.

The Ministry had assigned me to carry out several tasks:
1. Accusing the PMOI of violating human rights as someone who had previously worked with the organization.
2. Recruitment of disaffected members and efforts aimed at luring non-PMOI members of the NCRI away from that coalition.
3. I was also assigned to the task of providing false information to European countries on the PMOI and the NCRI. I was also aware that other agents are engaged in similar activities in other countries.

Alleging human rights abuses against the PMOI was one of the most serious projects the Ministry was pursuing outside Iran with me and a number of its other agents. The Ministry was convinced that if it were successful in neutralizing the PMOI and the NCRI in their actions that exposed human rights abuses in Iran, the United Nations would no longer condemn the Iranian regime. They felt that the only way to achieve this was to accuse the PMOI of human rights abuses. Thus, acting as disaffected members of the PMOI, our responsibility was to accuse the organization of human rights abuses in order to disarm them of the human rights weapon.

In 1994, we were engaged in an extensive campaign to convince Human Rights Watch that PMOI is engaged in human rights abuses and encouraged them to prepare a report in this regard. The information was also being sent to the United States Department of State who was preparing a report on the Mojahedin at the time.

In 1996, using the same story against the PMOI, we met in Geneva with Professor Maurice Danby Copithorne, UN Human Rights Commission's Special Representative on human rights situation in Iran. The Intelligence Ministry organized everything regarding this meeting. The contact person with professor Copithorne was Nasser Khajeh-nouri who operated from US but regularly visited Europe.

A similar attempt was made at Amnesty International in 1996, when a number of Intelligence Ministry agents met with the representative of the human rights organization in Germany.

One of our tasks was to discredit the PMOI among members of parliaments and governments in Europe and the United States. In this respect we were asked to claim that the PMOI is cooperating or being helped with the Iraqi government. 

As part of this plan, I was assigned to inform international organizations as well as foreign governments that PMOI was involved in suppressing the Kurdish rebellion in Iraq. This plan was conducted under the supervision of Nasser Khajeh-Nouri, who was the regime’s agent in the United States. He organized interview for me and other agents with an Iranian radio station in Los Angeles to tell our story that PMOI suppressed the Kurdish people along the Iraqi forces. Khajeh-Nouri consequently prepared a report under my name on this issue and sent it to US intelligence and government agencies as well as the United Nations. Consequently, a US Non-Governmental Organization, International Educational Development [organization], prepared a report of their investigation on this issue refuting our allegations against the Mojahedin, which was published as UN document on August 22, 1995.

In a similar move, Nasser Khajeh-Nouri once told me that he has received reliable information that PMOI is helping the Iraqi government to buy chemical weapons and other kinds of weapons of mass destruction. He asked me to expose the information and said we would then make it an international issue, by sending it to US government as well as European governments and international organizations. He said he would personally provide this information to US officials. To this end a public meeting was organized in June 1995, in Hamburg, Germany where I disclosed the information that had been given to me.
 
Along with 13 other MOIS agents, Tafrishi went to see Prof. Copithorne in January 1996 and claimed to have been tortured and imprisoned by the Mojahedin. This group held similar meetings with representatives of the Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch.

In late 2000, in a letter to Prof. Copithorne, he wrote:

I am Jamshid Tafrishi and met with you in Geneva together with 13 other individuals, including two children, as former members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran on January 16, 1996. I had written to you from Hamburg on the same subject a month prior to our meeting. The objective of our meeting was to accuse the Mojahedin of having prisons and committing torture, execution and violation of human rights on the eve of your anticipated visit to Iran and to request that you would reflect our information in your report.

This meeting was neither my first nor my last act against the Mojahedin. After several years of activity against the Mojahedin and direct cooperation with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence. I have now realized that my contacts were not ordinary agents of the Islamic Republic’s Intelligence Ministry but chief murderers and terrorists. This troubled my conscience…

After elaborating on the MOIS activities abroad against the PMOI in all these years, Tafrishi wrote:

My last meeting with Intelligence Ministry agents was in October 1998 in Tehran. The arrangement was that I set aside limitations on holding meetings abroad and go to Tehran. A travel document was provided to me by the regime’s embassy in the Hague and went to Tehran on a direct flight. During the trip, I met Sanjari, Reza, Hossein and Pirnia. The meeting with Sanjari took place in Shiraz. The rest of my meetings were in Tehran in Laleh Hotel. Owing to the secret nature of my ties with the Iranian regime, I was taken around in a vehicle with dark windshields. The objectives of these trips were to be briefed about more public support for the regime and activities against the Resistance outside Iran in tandem with other Intelligence Ministry agents.

About one year after my last visit to Tehran, when the factional feuding with the regime heightened over the chain murders, I saw pictures of Saeed Emami and other perpetrators of the chain murders and realized what kind of criminals I had been collaborating with and what were the objectives of their directives to me.

I was not at ease with my conscience and was disturbed over the fact that I had spent eight best years of my life in the service of such killers and criminals… Perhaps through this letter and informing the Iranian and world public, I could finally come to peace with my conscience and soothe the tremendous mental and psychological pressure I have endured so far.”