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Overview - Mullahs Psychological war against the Iranian Resistance |
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lunedì 13 giugno 2005 |
 Mullah Ali Younessi
A joint meeting of senior officials of the judiciary and intelligence
agencies in Tehran took place to find ways of dealing with the serious
crises facing the Islamic Republic. Jamal Shafii, Deputy Minister of
Intelligence and Security, presented the assessment of the MOIS (Iran’s
notorious secret police – ed.) about the nuclear issue, the situation
in Iraq, and the state of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (PMOI), and undlerlined
the importance of coordination between the judiciary and the
intelligence agencies in the current state of the country.
(semi-official Fars News Agency, April 13, 2005)
In separate meetings with the foreign ministers of Denmark, Belgium and
France, Hassan Rowhani, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator and secretary
of the Supreme National Security Council, called on their governments
to crack down further on the Mojahedin (PMOI). In an interview with the
Financial Times, Rowhani addressed a similar request to the U.S.
administration and said that this was a condition for improving ties
with Washington. (News agencies, Financial Times, April 19, 2005)
The Iranian regime blames the PMOI for antigovernment uprisings in
different parts of the country. The most recent example was the
week-long uprising in the southwestern province of Khuzistan, in which
some 70 protesters were killed by government forces. In the official
counter-demonstration in the city of Ahwaz, the PMOI was condemned for
its role. In its editorial, the official daily Jomhouri Islami wrote,
“The mischievous activities of the [PMOI] in the current disturbances
in Khuzistan must be brought to light.” (Jomhouri Islami).
After
failure to silence the Iranian people's resistance by military
confrontation, suppression, and bombing for 24 years, Iranian regime
engaged in a psychological war and disinformation campaign to discredit
the Iranian Resistance. The mullahs' regime plans to pave the way for
trade relations with foreign countries and suppression of the
resistance by defacing the opposition. In the absence of a legitimate
opposition, there is no obstacle for dealing with the dictators.
However, in the past couple of years after the regime was not
successful in cracking the resistance in Ashraf city, also in France
their conspiracy to dismantle the Iranian Resistance failed, they have
hyped up their demonizing campaign.
Mullah Ali Younessi, who heads the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS),
Iran’s dreaded secret police, told the state-run television on March
15: “I gave instructions to my deputy today to inform the world opinion
about the crimes of this organization [PMOI].”
The MOIS instructed its operatives in several European countries
to hold several gatherings in Paris and in the area around the
residence of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the coalition
National Council of Resistance of Iran, at the end of March. Several
agents were also sent to France from Iran for the same purpose.
MOIS officials hope to tar the Iranian Resistance’s image abroad
through such activities. The Iranian secret police used one of its
agents in Europe, Karim Haggi, as its point man in this campaign. Haggi
identifies himself as “a former member of the PMOI”. Haggi, who lives
in Holland, has been working for MOIS since 1995 and was exposed by a
senior MOIS operative in Europe, Jamshid Tafrishi, who defected in the
year 2000. The Dutch security service interrogated Haggi in that year
after discovering his ties to Iranian intelligence officers in the
Iranian embassy in the Hague. Since then, Haggi has been meeting his
MOIS control officers in Turkey, Malaysia and Singapore.
In recent years, as political and commercial ties between Tehran and
Paris have grown and France has become, in the words of a top Iranian
official, “the number one ally of the Islamic Republic in Europe”, MOIS
has been developing strong ties with the French secret service, DST.
The French journal, Le Canard Enchainé, reported in January that MOIS
chief Ali Younessi had paid a secret visit to Paris for talks with
French officials.
Unfortunately, the close cooperation between MOIS and the French agency
have led to joint activities against the Iranian Resistance. MOIS
agents such as Haggi have been used extensively by the French secret
service to prop up a case against the NCRI, particularly after a
two-year investigation into the Iranian Resistance did not yield a
shred of evidence and turned into a fiasco, as it became clear that it
was instigated by secret deals between Paris and Tehran.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the MOIS agents who came to Paris
on Wednesday, March 30, to hold a gathering in Place Trocadero and plan
to hold a gathering on Friday near the residence of Maryam Rajavi have
enjoyed the full cooperation of the French authorities. They were
allowed to hold their rally in Paris in the very same square that the
Iranian exile communities wanted to demonstrate on February 10, but
were banned by the French government. The question is, why did the
French government ban a demonstration by tens of thousands of Iranians
in Place Trocadero on February 10, when the objective was to protest
against human rights violation in Iran, but allowed several dozen
agents of mullahs’ secret police demonstrate against the Iranian
Resistance in the same square?
The French government’s green light to these individuals to hold their
gatherings, even though European security services have been aware that
Karim Haggi and his associates work for the mullahs’ secret police,
surprised and dismayed many political personalities and human rights
activists in France, including Yves Bonnet, former head of the French
counter-terrorism agency, Moloud Aounit, secretary general of the
anti-racist movement MRAP, France’ largest non-governmental
organization, Senator Jean-Pierre Michel, Pierre Bercis, president of
the human rights organization Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme, and Bishop
Jacques Gaillot, a renowned philanthropist. These personalities
publicly denounced this position of the French government at a rally in
Paris on April 5.
Furthermore, allowing the Iranian regime’s intelligence agents into
France was in breach of a European Union Council of Ministers decision
dated April 29, 1997, in which the EU foreign ministers agreed on
“excluding Iranian intelligence personnel from European Union Member
States”.
The Iranian secret service (MOIS) has carried out dozens of
assassination of Iranian dissidents, including members of the NCRI, in
European countries, such as France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany,
Sweden, Norway, Austria, Britain, Turkey, and so on. There is grave
concern that this latest action is being used by MOIS to pave the way
for further terrorist attacks on Iranian dissidents in France.
We take a deeper look at the huge machinery of the Iranian regime for
waging a brutal war on its opponents; a war that involves propaganda,
assassinations, and every weapon in the armory of Iran’s dreaded secret
police to eliminate the opposition to the ayatollahs’ regime. |
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