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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 StatementsEmboldened by the report against the People’s Mojahedin of
Iran (PMOI) by the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch, the Iranian Ministry
of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has stepped up its threats against
the Iranian Resistance’s sympathizers and activists in and out of Iran.
The new wave of intimidation and efforts to set the stage for terrorist
activities abroad is overseen by MOIS deputy Mohammad Reza Irvani, who
has been responsible for assassination of dissidents abroad and the
chain murders in Iran.
In an implicit reference to Irvani, Intelligence Minister Ali Younessi
said on the state television on March 25, “I ordered my deputy to
inform the international community of atrocities perpetrated by the
Monafeqin [Mojahedin].”
Following the publication of HRW report, MOIS agents have placed
numerous telephone calls to the Resistance’s supporters in different
European countries. While playing tapes of the Quran, they have been
demanding that these Iranians return to Iran and halt their anti-regime
activities; otherwise they “would be taken to Iran in sacks.”
MOIS agents also exert pressure on families of Resistance’s activists
and use them to send addresses for MOIS websites to their children
abroad. Some of these sites include Irandidban, Iran-Interlink, Nejat,
Mahdis, Sepideh, Iran-Ayandeh, Negah-e No and Habilian.
MOIS agents go to the homes of the relatives of Resistance’s supporters
in Iran to call and threaten them in front of their relatives that if
they refuse to return, they would arrest their relatives or murder the
activists themselves.
In some cases, MOIS agents have told the activists over the phone, “We
have the capacity to kill you abroad. It would cost us only $1,000. We
will stab you to death.” In another call from Iran to a Resistance’s
activist, an MOIS agent warned, “If you continue your activities, your
brother would be run over by the car here in Tehran.”
There have been dozens of such calls and the Resistance’s supporters have informed the police of these threats.
Recently, there have been some reports on increasing activities of the
MOIS abroad to set the stage the stage for terrorist activities against
the Iranian Resistance’s supporters and activists. One MOIS agent, who
tortured and executed dozens of PMOI members inside Iran, has come to
Sweden and requested asylum. He has been quoted as saying, “Time has
come to retaliate against the Mojahedin.”
After placing several phone calls to a Resistance’s supporter in
Sweden, an MOIS official, using the alias of Amiri, warned him in an
email, “If you make a trip to a neighboring country such as Turkey,
Dubai or to the far east, Malaysia, Indonesia or to Europe or Cyprus,
or wherever your are comfortable, I would be waiting for you.”
The Iranian Resistance had previously revealed that the MOIS uses
Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and South Asian countries to meet its
European-based agents to hide those contacts from Iranians and Western
security services.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 7, 2005 |
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