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Friday, 21 October 2005 |
Who are we?
Iran: Terror Database is a website dedicated to exposing the
clandestine activities of the notorious Iranian secret police, the
Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS, also known by its Persian
acronym, VEVAK), and its role in global terrorism and Islamic
fundamentalist propaganda.
The website has been set up by Association of Victims of the Iranian
Regime’s Terrorism (AVIRT), an independent, non-governmental
organization based in Brussels, whose aim is to provide first-hand
information and expert reports on terrorist attacks sponsored by
Tehran. Iranian dissidents, as well as many non-Iranians, have been the
targets of such attacks around the world, from Beirut to Paris and from
Istanbul to Buenos Aires.
The association’s Board of Directors comprises Iranian dissidents who
have been direct victims of the regime’s terrorism, as well as
terrorism experts and analysts from different countries. While AVIRT
maintains an objective and factual approach to the issues of concern,
it avowedly supports calls for an end to Iran’s theocratic regime,
convinced that the scourge of terrorism emanating from Islamic
fundamentalism will not vanish for as long as radical clerics stay at
the helm in Iran. We welcome information from all victims of Tehran’s
terrorism, Iranian opposition groups, human rights groups, and other
non-governmental organizations.
AVIRT’s chairman, Abolhassan Mojtahedzadeh, is an Iranian dissident who
was kidnapped by Iranian diplomats in Istanbul in 1988. Turkish police
miraculously saved his life when they discovered him in the trunk of a
car only miles from the Iranian border. Turkey expelled the diplomats
involved in the kidnapping.
Our Aims
AVIRT aims to achieve the following goals:
- To expose the terrorism and propaganda of Iran’s Islamic fundamentalist regime;
- To provide medical, legal, counseling and advocacy assistance for direct and indirect victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism;
- To create a database on Iranian-sponsored terrorism and its victims;
- To wage a public information campaign to raise awareness of
Iran’s clandestine activities in Europe and the United States,
including sponsorship of terrorism, espionage against Iranian
dissidents, support for indigenous Islamic fundamentalist groups, etc.
Write to us
Please contact us if you have any queries or comments on the Iranian regime’s terrorism, its victims, and its global reach.
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