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NCRI – A former political prisoner has revealed how the Iranian regime tried to make him a agent by posing as an opposition activist while also working undercover for the dictatorship.<\/p>\nNCRI – A former political prisoner has revealed how the Iranian regime tried to make him a agent by posing as an opposition activist while also working undercover for the dictatorship.<\/p>\n
Behrooz Javid Tehrani – a student activist with no affiliation to the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) – told how Iranian security agents tried to make him betray his beliefs while he was being held in solitary confinement in the summer of 2011.<\/p>\n
\u00a0The head interrogator of Evin prison – a man named Alavi – even offered him a passport and money to leave the country and pose as an opposition activist whilst actually smearing their name on the Internet on behalf of the mullahs.<\/p>\n
Javid Tehrani who was released in December 2011, exposed the scam by Iran’s Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS) on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n
Tehrani said Alavi told him he was ‘wasting his life’ and listed the opportunities had lost due to his anti-regime activities. He then gave the following account of the interrogation:<\/p>\n
Alavi:<\/strong> Behrooz do you want to go abroad?<\/p>\n Behrooz:<\/strong> (I was close to the end of my prison term, I was suspicious so I replied) Mr. Alavi! I do have a passport. And without a passport I cannot even go to the north of the country.<\/p>\n Alavi replied quickly:<\/strong> We will give you a passport.<\/p>\n Behrooz:<\/strong> I thought because they wanted to get rid of me I replied) I do not have any money to go abroad.<\/p>\n Alavi:<\/strong> We’ll give you money.<\/p>\n Behrooz:<\/strong> (I asked curiously) What should I do?<\/p>\n Alavi:<\/strong> Nothing special. The same thing you did during the past 15 years in Iran. Continue with your struggle and opposition (to the regime). (After a few seconds of silence he continued)… Just attack the PMOI (MEK) once a while. Is it clear enough?<\/p>\n A similar plot involved Caspian Makan, who was the fianc\u00e9 of Neda Agha Soltan, a young woman killed in 2009 protests in Iran.<\/p>\n When Caspian Makan was in detention Amnesty International said that Iranian regime had told his family that if he signs a \u201cconfession\u201d saying that the MEK (PMOI) killed her, then he may be released from Evin Prison in Tehran.<\/p>\n A recent Pentagon report also confirmed the tactic used by the regime, stating: “MOIS uses its former members and\/or people willing to cooperate with the ministry. They are sent to prison temporarily and become known as activists opposed to the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n “After some time, no one questions their previous political activities; being a political prisoner is enough to be acknowledged as an opposition figure.<\/p>\n “Activists abroad may help get such a prisoner out of the country with the assistance of an international organization, or MOIS may send the prisoner abroad, calling him\/her an ‘escaped dissenter’.<\/p>\n “This mechanism of releasing political prisoners to go abroad sows mistrust within the opposition in exile.”<\/p>\n The report also stated that \u201cthe Iranian government and its intelligence apparatus consider MEK the most serious dissident organization\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NCRI – A former political prisoner has revealed how the Iranian regime tried to make him a agent by posing as an opposition activist while also working undercover for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-12985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism","7":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"\n