The German security agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Bfv, wrote in its 2005 annual report (released 17 May 2005):

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has several opposition groups under surveillance in Europe.

The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) are particularly the focus of MOIS's attention.

For collecting information and spying activities, Iran's intelligence service (MOIS) uses a network of agents who have defected from these organizations. The agents, are invited to travel to Iran for briefings. In the process of the talks and briefings these people are put under pressure.

For agent recruitment, the MOIS in instances also brings psychological pressure to bear on the targeted persons, e.g. by threatening them with reprisals on their relatives living in Iran. Those who do not travel to Iran are contacted and directed from Iran by telephone.