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Iran-France: Mullahs' Intelligence Ministry dispatches more agents to France |
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Monday, 24 October 2005 |
 Faced with growing resistance inside Iran and international
isolation due to widespread activities of the Iranian Resistance, the
clerical regime dispatched its intelligence agents to France to counter
the Resistance.
In an interview with the Persian language section of Radio Free Europe
on October 19, Behzad Alishahi, while admitting openly to have been
dispatched by mullahs’ Intelligence Ministry, alleged that he was
tortured in Camp Ashraf in Iraq, where members of the People’s
Mojahedin Organization of Iran are based.
He then accused the PMOI of
being involved in the suppression of the Kurdish population in northern
Iraq. His allegations were denied vehemently by Mohammad Mohaddessin,
chair of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee, in his interview with the
same radio on October 21.
Alishahi was discredited due to the fact that he failed to mention any of
these allegations whilst being screened by various U.S. departments
seven times over a 16 month period in Camp Ashraf. He also never raised
these allegations while being in the U.S. transit facilities, known as
TIF, where he resided for six months before being handed over to the
Iranian regime under the supervision of the International Red Cross.
His charges were only made after four-months training in Iran by the mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
Prior to his allegations, the secretariat of the National Council of
Resistance of Iran unveiled the MOIS ploy in a statement on October 17.
The following is an excerpt of the statement:
“In pursuit of its misinformation and demonization campaign as well as
terrorist schemes against the Iranian Resistance, the clerical regime
has dispatched several other Intelligence Ministry agents to France,
disguised as former members and officials of the People's Mojahedin
Organization of Iran (PMOI) who have recently come from Camp Ashraf.
“One such agent, Behzad Alishahi, was among those who left Camp Ashraf
15 months ago, on July 4, 2004, two days after the PMOI personnel were
recognized by the Multi-National Force-Iraq as protected persons under
the Fourth Geneva Convention. In a statement on July 24, 2004, the NCRI
Secretariat reported the departure of these individuals, who had the
choice of staying in Ashraf or leaving to lead a normal life.
“Alishahi was among those handed over by the US forces to the Iranian
regime on February 28, 2005 at the Khosravi border crossing. A
representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross oversaw
the transfer. He is listed as number 7, in the document sent to Tehran
from Kermanshah when these individuals entered Iranian territory.
“After recanting and being hired by the Ministry of Intelligence and
Security (MOIS), Alishahi carried out several missions in Iran for six
months. For example, accompanied by his MOIS handlers, he visited
families of the Mojahedin and NCRI members to coerce them, either
through incentives or threats, into abandoning their anti-regime
activities. The MOIS dispatched Alishahi to Germany this summer and in
recent weeks to France.
“Last July, the MOIS used the identical tactic to send another agent,
Javad Firouzmand (aka Afshin Boroumand) from Iran to France, posing as
senior PMOI official who had just fled from Camp Ashraf. In fact,
Firouzmand had left Camp Ashraf 15 months ago, on April 28, 2004, while
being interviewed by a U.S. State Department team based at the Camp. He
stayed in the U.S.-run exit facility and returned to Iran on March 10,
2005.
“The clerical regime has dispatched its agents to France to continue
its sinister plots against the Iranian opposition. In an interview with
the French Television channel, ARTE, on September 27, 2005, Mr.
Emmanuel Ludot, a French jurist and lawyer who is a member of the team
that will defend former Iraqi President, unveiled a proposal by the
Iranian regime's ambassador to France, Sadeq Kharrazi, to attribute
further lies to the PMOI. Mr. Ludot said, "The Iranian ambassador told
me why we don't agree on one issue. We say Iranians did not gas the
Kurds. We have a document that we will provide to you. It proves that
the PMOI gassed the Kurds. So, we agree on a common position. You say
this was the work of the PMOI and we say the same thing. In this way,
both sides' dignity (Iran and Iraq) would be preserved."
“As such, the MOIS is dispatching its agents to France to turn this
country to a loading dock for its operatives who act as the lead group
to facilitate the mullahs' subsequent terrorist plots.
“After the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Firouzmand was
commissioned specifically to track down Mr. Massoud Rajavi and carry
out Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's order to assassinate him (PMOI
statement, April 14, 2003). The MOIS and the Revolutionary Guards
Corps' Qods (Jerusalem) Force, which assassinated Mr. Rajavi's elder
brother Prof. Kazem Rajavi in April 1990 in Geneva, blatantly boasted
of such a plan on July 6, 2005 on the Ministry's websites.”
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