Bu publishing a document entitled as: ’SPYING FOR THE MULLAHS: IRAN’S AGENTS IN UK’, the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom warned against the threats of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) and its agents in the UK and asked the British government to implement the Resolution by the EU asking for a joint effort to expel the intelligence and security personnel of the Iranian regime or prevent them from entering EU member country.
This Parliamentary Committee, which enjoys the support of the majority of the members of House of Commons and 200 members of the House of Lords, called the Islamic fundamentalism and the terrorism coming from it as the biggest threat to the peace and stability in the world and regarded terrorism as the main instrument for the Iranian regime for pursuing its objectives inside and outside Iran. Part of the report is as below:
In its ’Annual Report 2005-2006’, the Parliamentary Intelligence & Security Committee referred to increasing international tension over Iran’s nuclear programme and its backing for terrorist groups in the Middle East.
Early in his Presidency, Ahmadinejad proclaimed:
’Thanks to the blood if the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution if 1384 will God willing, cut off the roots of injustice in the world. .. The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world. ’
Ahmadinejad has also spoken of the Middle East conflict as being ’the locus of the final war’ between Muslims and the west.
Terrorism has been the main instrument of the Iranian regime in pursuit of its expansionist ideology. The regime has long used terrorism as a policy instrument to deal with challenges to its survival at home and abroad. At home, the regime uses terrorism to confront rising public discontent, while boosting the morale of its oppressive forces, in particular the Revolutionary Guards. Abroad, the regime uses terrorism to blackmail and gain concessions from western countries.
It is widely acknowledged within the international community that the regime is the most active state sponsor of terrorism, having been responsible for more than 450 terrorist atrocities worldwide resulting in thousands of deaths.
Based on arrest warrants and investigations conducted by European security services into assassinations of Iranian dissidents in Europe, it is clear that the highest ranks of the Iranian regime are involved in each terrorist operation. This includes the Supreme Leader, the President, the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Intelligence and the Qods Force of the Revolutionary Guards.
The mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence receives extensive state funding and spearheads terrorist operations at home and abroad. The Foreign Ministry uses diplomatic privilege to move agents sent by the Ministry of Intelligence into countries where terrorist attacks are planned and to coordinate operations out of Iran’s embassies.
According to an April 2006 international arrest warrant issued by a Swiss judge, Ali Fallahian, who currently serves as a security advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, masterminded the assassination of Professor Kazem Rajavi, the representative in Switzerland of the Iranian regime’s main opponents, the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Fallahian was Iran’s Minister of Intelligence at the time of the assassination.
In the spring of 1997, a Berlin Court ruled that the regime’s top leaders, including the Supreme Leader and Fallahian, were part of a ’special operations committee’ that ordered the murder of four Iranian Kurds in a restaurant in Germany in 1992. Other Iranian dissidents assassinated in Europe include Mohammad-Hossein Naghdi, former diplomat and representative of the NCRI in Italy, who was assassinated in Rome, Zahra Rajabi, member of the NCRI, who was assassinated in Istanbul, and Abdul-Rahman Qassemlou, secretary general of the Democratic Parry of Iranian Kurdistan, who was assassinated in Vienna. These cases illustrate the role played by the Ministry of Intelligence in terrorist operations in the heart of Europe.
Dissidents inside Iran were also the victim of death squads sent by the mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence. At the end of 1998, a number of intellectuals were brutally murdered in Tehran, in what became known as the ’chain murders’. A year later, the regime was forced to admit that the ring leader of the murder gang was none other than the Deputy Intelligence Minister, Saeid Emami.
Suicide attacks incited by Islamic fundamentalist ideology are a hallmark of Iran’s terrorism. Two of the earliest and largest ever suicide bomb attacks carried out by agents of the regime were on the US Embassy and then the US Marine Headquarters in the Lebanon in 1983, which killed 258 Americans, including 241 US marines.
The Ministry of Intelligence was also responsible for the most deadly terrorist attack against Jews, which took place in Buenos Aires in July 1994, when a suicide bomber blew up a community centre killing 85 people and injuring a further 151. This was the worst terrorist attack on Argentine soil. On 9 November 2006, Argentine Federal Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral, issued an international warrant for the arrest of former Iranian President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani and eight other senior officials, including the then Minister of Intelligence, on charges of masterminding the attack.
The regime and its Ministry of Intelligence have focused considerable resources in recruiting agents in Europe for use against its main opponents and Iranian refugees. This is a matter to which Interior Ministries and intelligence services in Europe have drawn attention.
In its May 2002 annual report, the Dutch Internal Security Service (BVD) exposed the illegal and secret activities of the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence in Europe, and in particular in the Netherlands. The report stated:
Supporters of the most important opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin, are especially under scrutiny of Iranian Security Services more than any other group”.
More recent reports record the extensive activities of the Ministry of Intelligence in Europe. European security services have warned agents of the mullahs about their links with the Iranian regime. In February 2000, an agent called Shams Haeri was interrogated by the Dutch security services about his contacts with the ministry.
Another agent, Karim Haqi, was warned about his activities against Iranian refugees and opponents of the regime living in Europe.
THE MULLAHS’ AGENTS IN BRITAIN
In witness statements provided to a British Court by members of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, MPs and Peers set our the ways in which the regime and its Ministry of Intelligence operate in Britain.
Win Griffiths, a respected former Member of Parliament who has a great deal of expertise in Iranian affairs, set out his own experience and that of his Parliamentary colleagues. Mr. Griffiths explained that whenever a Member of Parliament expresses support for the goals of freedom and a secular democracy for Iran, as espoused by the NCRI and PMOI, they are bombarded with misinformation about Iran’s main opposition. On some occasions MPs and Peers are contacted directly by the Iranian Embassy in London, while more often they are approached by people claiming to be disaffected former members of the PMOI who have been recruited by the regime.
He added that on other occasions, Parliamentarians are approached by organisations that claim to be human rights organisations or NGOs. These front organisations for the Iranian regime include Nejat Society, Peyvand and Aawa Association. He also exposed the details of numerous websites used by the Iranian regime to spread misinformation against the PMOI. The list included:
http://www.irandidban.com/index-e.asp
http://www.iran-interlink.org
http://www.nejatngo.orglindex _ en.php
http://www.theblackfile.com/edefault.asp
http://www.habilian.com/default-en.asp
Massoud and Anne Khodabandeh (Anne Singleton)
According to a witness statement filed with a British Court in 2003 by his own brother, Massoud Khodabandeh is an agent of the Ministry of Intelligence who operates in Britain.
In 1998, using the cover of attending the International Labour Confederation, he went to Singapore where, according to the witness statement produced by his brother, he met secretly with representatives of the Ministry of Intelligence. It was then that Massoud Khodabandeh was recruited and began to act as an agent of the Ministry of Intelligence. His instructions were to act against the Iranian opposition and refugees living in Britain and other parts of Europe.
Massoud Khodabandeh is married to Anne Khodabandeh (Anne Singleton).
In June 2004, Win Griffiths was amazed to see Anne Singleton in the mullahs’ notorious Evin prison. In his witness statement to the court, Win Griffiths said about Evin prison: ’Evin prison is recognised as one if the most secretive and brutal prisons in the world. Tens if thousands if political prisoners have been tortured and executed in the prison. Evin prison is where Canadian-Iranian photojournalist, Zahra Kazemi met her brutal death in July 2003. ’
