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Amir-Hossein Kord Rostami |
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Sunday, 23 October 2005 |
 Amir-Hossein Kord Rostami is an agent of the Iran’s
Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) in Ottawa, Canada, and has
connections with other agents of this ministry abroad. He has signed a
number of petitions in collusion with other MOIS agents under the cover
of disaffected members of the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran
(PMOI).
- Since 1979, Rostami was officially a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in the town of Bandar Gaz.
- During the years 1979 to 1980, he was actively involved in attacks
on the offices of the PMOI. He threatened, beat up, and shot at many of
the supporters of the PMOI outside their offices.
- In the summer of 1981, Rostami took part in search-and-arrest
operations against the PMOI and their supporters in the town of Gorgan
(northern Iran). At this time, he arrested a member of the PMOI by the
name of Ali-Hossein Turcoman Gholami. Gholami was executed in prison in
September 1981.
- Rostami was actively involved in the Revolutionary Guards’ transfer
of PMOI prisoners from the town of Bandar Gaz to the Prosecutor’s
Office in the town of Behshahr.
- In 1981, he was dispatched to Gorgan Prison to gather intelligence
on political prisoners. When his cover was blown, Rostami left the
prison and continued his task of rooting out underground PMOI members
on Iran’s major cities, such as Tehran.
- In the summer of 1986, Rostami, posing as an Iranian expatriate,
tried to infiltrate the ranks of the PMOI and the National Liberation
Army of Iran (NLA). His identity was, however, discovered some time
later and he was sent back to the country from where he had been
dispatched
- After Rostami went to Canada, he was put in charge of the “Fatemeh Cultural Centre”
library belonging to the Iranian embassy in Canada. The Iranian embassy
had used Canadian citizens to set up this library. Rostami is in
contact with the Iranian embassy in Canada and goes there systematically.
He sends statements and books published by the MOIS to political
personalities and members of parliament, targeting in particular
individuals who support the Iranian Resistance in Canada.
- Rostami has active ties to Karim Haqi (a.k.a. Karim Haqi Moni), a
notorious agent of the MOIS in the Netherlands. He regularly sends the
journal “Peyvand”, published by Haqi, to a number of Iranians in Canada.
Rostami has taken part in the majority of the activities organised
by the MOIS against the Iranian Resistance abroad. One such event in
which he took part was held in Paris late March 2005.
- Rostami is one of the editors of two MOIS websites registered in
Canada by the names of “Poorandokht” and “Iran-Pars”. These two sites
work with a network of MOIS sites such as “Iran Didban” and “Habilian”.
Acting on an MOIS general directive, he sent a thank-you letter to
Canada’s Security Minister after the PMOI’s name was added to the
country’s terrorist list.
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