Massoudi wrote:

My name is Mahmoud Massoudi and I am 41 years old. I became a supporter of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran and began to oppose the mullahs after they came to power. In subsequent years, I joined the ranks of the Iranian Resistance in the Iran-Iraq border region to fight the mullahs' evil regime. But in early 1994, I requested to leave for personal reasons and went abroad. I was given political asylum in Germany and as I could not remain silent in the face of the atrocities of the religious tyranny in Iran, I tried to take part in activities and protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran as an Iranian dissident without any affiliation to a particular group or ideology. I also wrote articles in different newspapers to continue my opposition to this regime.

For this purpose, I have been in contact, over the past seven years, with a wide range of Iranian political groups and activists, including those who identify themselves as "former members of the Mojahedin" and I have had, without exaggeration, thousands of hours of dialogue and discussion with them, either in person or by telephone, as well as extensive correspondence.

My experience of the past seven years made it clear that the ruling religious dictatorship makes political and intelligence-gathering use of certain groups and individuals, who have identified themselves as political refugees and opponents of the mullahs' regime, in order to ensure its own survival and destroy its real opponents, who want to overthrow it. I therefore set out here some of my observations and reliable information, about which I am prepared to give testimony at any court of law:

1. I was informed in April that several individuals identifying themselves as "former officials of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran" have come to Europe, including Germany, to obtain political asylum. I was then informed that on April 5, 2002, a meeting was held at the home of Bahman Rastgou in Cologne, Germany, with the participation of Karim Haghi, Hadi Shams-Haeri, Mehdi Khoshhal, Mohammad-Reza Haghi, Bahman Rastgou, and several of the new arrivals, including Mohammad-Hossein Sobhani and Farhad Javaheri-Yar. In the meeting, Sobhani, who is the senior agent over Javaheri-Yar, explained the plans and aims of his team in coming to Germany and in this connection, they agreed on a division of labor. Sobhani and Javaheri-Yar told those present that they came from Iran and more agents would follow them.
2. Prior to the April 5 meeting, he had mentioned the Intelligence Ministry's forthcoming plan to bring individuals from Iran to Europe to Abol-Hassan Bani-Sadr, Mehdi Khan-Baba Tehrani, Bahman Niroumand, Mansour Bayatzadeh and several others so that they would assist the new arrivals from Iran and write letters of confirmation for them. These individuals promised to spare no effort.
3. Alireza Nourizadeh, an agent of the mullahs' Intelligence Ministry working under the cover of journalism, told me in a telephone conversation on May 8: "There are new individuals who have come from the Mojahedin. He mentioned Adham Tayyebi (a.k.a. Massoud) and said, "They have come with documents to prove that the Mojahedin carried out espionage and operations for Iraq and intend to hold a big trial and prove that the Mojahedin are terrorists."

My own experience and that of others who have defected from the Mojahedin and are leading their own lives in Europe showed clearly that these claims were not credible. I knew very well that the Islamic Republic had fabricated since a long time ago the stories of "maltreatment" and "imprisonment of innocent individuals" against their main opposition.
4. Nourizadeh emphasized that every support must be given to the Intelligence Ministry's agents being sent from Iran. He warmly welcomed an interview with Sobhani and asked me to do the interview for publication in the monthly Rouzegar-e No. Nourizadeh recently bought this monthly with the funds he received from the mullahs' regime. He told me that he would pay for all the expenses, including the trip to Doblen in Germany, where Sobhani is residing, so that I would make the interview. I went to Doblen on July 30, talked to Sobhani for eight hours, and recorded a 40-minute interview with him.
5. Sobhani's scenario was as follows: He was an official of "the Mojahedin's Political Security Department" and had been "imprisoned and tortured" by the Mojahedin because he was "opposed to the organization's policies." After years in solitary confinement, he was handed over to Iraq and then spent several years in Iraqi jails and was then "extradited" to Iran and imprisoned by the Intelligence Ministry. But on the third day of arriving in Iran, he "fled" the Intelligence Ministry's prison and came to Germany! Sobhani did not offer any explanation as to how he fled the Intelligence Ministry's prison and answered all my questions on this with a simple grin. He wanted to say why do you raise something you are well aware of.
6. Sobhani claims that his "mission" abroad is to fight against the Mojahedin and the person of Mr. Massoud Rajavi and the most important thing, he says, is to attack Mr. Rajavi. He also said that he was responsible for organizing other "Mojahedin defectors" to "escape" from Iran.
7. After hours of discussion and numerous telephone conversations with Sobhani, it has become crystal clear to me that he is neither a political refugee, nor a defector seeking to lead an ordinary life. He is in fact a trained agent sent by the Intelligence Ministry with strong financial and communication backing and, as he put it, "I have come outside Iran only for the purpose of fighting the Mojahedin and have no mission other than opposing them."
8. On August 5, 2002, Sobhani faxed a ten-page statement to me with the joint signatures of Javaheri-Yar and Edward Termadoyan. On this typed statement, there were corrections in handwriting that belonged neither to Sobhani nor to Javaheri-Yar or Termadoyan. It was clear that they had received the typed text from outside Germany and the original sender was in the Intelligence Ministry in Tehran.
9. In this statement, Javaheri-Yar and Termadoyan were giving a scenario that was almost identical to Sobhani: they claimed that they were "Mojahedin dissidents" who had been arrested by the Mojahedin and handed over to Iraq, which in turn handed them over to Iran and they then escaped from the Intelligence Ministry and came to Europe... Precisely the same scenario was again repeated by another agent, Hamid-Reza Barahoun. Anyone least familiar with the notorious prisons in Iran knows very well that it is impossible to believe that so many political prisoners would have escaped one after the other in such a short time. Throughout the past 20 years, only a handful of political prisoners are known to have escaped from mullahs' jails. So how could these "prisoners" escape one by one and quickly turn up in Europe, while thousands of Iranian refugees have been waiting to come to Europe from Iran's neighboring countries like Turkey, Pakistan, UAE and Azerbaijan?