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Iran's Intelligence Ministry agents in the U.S. |
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Monday, 24 October 2005 |
 The clerical regime has dispatched a number of notorious agents of its
Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), posing as former members
and officials of the People's Mojahedin (PMOI), to Washington, DC, to
embark on a misinformation campaign against the PMOI.
One notorious MOIS agent coming to Washington, DC is Karim Haqi, who
has been used by the regime for espionage and terrorist schemes as well
as disseminating false information against the Iranian opposition in
the past 10 years.
In 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, while living with the PMOI, Karim
Haqi requested to be transferred to Baghdad from Camp Ashraf due to
"physical problems."
In a letter to the PMOI in November 1992, his wife, Mohtaram Baba'i,
wrote, "After the bombing raid on Camp Ashraf, the PMOI transferred me,
my husband and our child to Jalalzadeh building in the heart of Baghdad
for greater protection. During this period, in addition to all the
accommodations that all combatants and members of the PMOI received, we
were given special treatment and added accommodations. We were also
provided with an exclusive apartment, a car to commute in Baghdad, and
a monthly allowance of 1,000 Dinars.”
In a letter dated October 28, 1992, Haqi wrote: “I ask that, until the
arrangements are made for me and my family to go to the United States,
and in order to prevent the clerical regime and its agents from
exploiting my decision to leave the ranks of the Resistance, I be
allowed to return to work at Camp Ashraf for a six-month period.”
Ultimately, in January 1993, the PMOI helped Karim Haqi and his family
to relocate to France, where his living expenses were paid by the PMOI.
He was recruited by the MOIS in 1995 and was in regular contact with an
MOIS official in the regime's embassy in the Netherlands, named
Maghsoudi.
In the spring of 1995, after having lived in Europe and having had no
contact with the PMOI for three years, he claimed that he had been
imprisoned and tortured by the PMOI in Iraq and began to churn out a
variety of allegations against the PMOI that were actually dictated by
the MOIS.
Haqi is supported and financed by the MOIS directly from Tehran and is
in contact with other MOIS agents in Europe. In order to keep these
contacts secret, he met with MOIS officials in East Asia, including
Singapore.
So extensive were Haqi's contacts and collaboration with the MOIS that
on several occasions, Dutch police interrogated and warned him about
his contacts and receiving money from the MOIS, including in February
2000.
Last week, Haqi accompanied another MOIS agent, Behzad Alishahi, to
Paris to introduce him as a former official of the PMOI. Three months
ago, in July, Haqi joined another MOIS agent, Javad Firouzmand, in
Paris. Firouzmand was specifically commissioned to track down Mr.
Massoud Rajavi and carry out the order by the mullahs’ Supreme Leader
Ali Khamenei to assassinate him (PMOI statement, April 14, 2003).
The Dutch Security Service, VVD, wrote in its 2001 report, "One of the
tasks of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security is to track
down and identify those who are in contact with opposition groups
abroad. Supporters of the most important opposition group, the People's
Mojahedin, are especially under scrutiny of Iranian security service
more than any other group. The Intelligence Ministry tries to gather
information on the Mojahedin through its members and ex-members as much
as possible. Intelligence Ministry officers are instructed to spread
negative information against the People's Mojahedin Organization (and
its members). They are trying therefore, to destabilize the
organization and demonize the Mojahedin in the host country and thus
end its political and social activities."
Another MOIS agent who will be accompanying Haqi in his trip is
Amir-Hossein Kord Rostami. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and has
connections with other agents of this ministry abroad. Rostami was
officially a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
in the town of Bandar Gaz (northern Iran) in 1979 .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), during
which he arrested a member of the PMOI by the name of Ali-Hossein
Turkoman Gholami who was later 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. He was later transferred to Tehran to take
part in operations to identify PMOI members.
In 1986, the MOIS assigned Rostami to infiltrate the ranks of the PMOI.
His identity was, however, discovered shortly and he was sent back to
the country from where he had been dispatched.
In Canada, Rostami was in charge of the Iranian embassy's “Fatemeh
Cultural Center” library in Canada for some time. He is in contact with
the Iranian embassy Canada and goes there systematically. Rostami
regularly 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.
A third agent, Mahin (Parvin-Mahrokh) Haji, resides in Ottawa as well.
She and her husband have active ties with the Iranian embassy there and
travel to Iran frequently. Haji accompanied Kaqi and a number of other
MOIS operatives in a Press conference in Paris in April 2003, to set
the stage for the French police raid on the Iranian Resistance's
centers and homes of its members and sympathizers.
Rostami and Haji operate two MOIS websites in Canada by the names of “Poorandokht” and “Pars-Iran." |
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