The Iranian opposition in exile in Germany is in the core of the surveillance activities of MOIS. Various organizations and groups … are systematically under surveillance and scrutiny of this service. Yet the principal target is the most active and the most militarized opposition group… the PMOI and its political wing the NCRI who is working in an international level.

MOIS has apparently concentrated its efforts on defusing opposition groups and their political activities. In this respect MOIS resorts to leading and financing propaganda against NCRI including those voiced by previous opponents of the regime.

As in previous years the Iranian secret service tries to recruit active or ex-members of the opposition.

Regarding the suggestions about recruiting new members put forward by the MOIS branch in the embassy in Berlin, the MOIS center in Tehran will make the final decision. The more lenient travel conditions between Germany and Iran provide fine facilities for MOIS to contact and recruit new agents.

The priority of those under surveillance of the Iranian secret service is for example given to the Iranian resistance group, the Mojahedin and NCRI. On 24/07/2001 an Iranian residing in Germany was arrested in Ofenbach suspected of working as an agent of the Iranian secret service, MOIS. He must have spied on Iranian dissidents residing in Frankfort under instructions of MOIS.