Analysis by PMOI/MEK
Jan. 26, 2019 – A rare admission by a former Iranian regime diplomat has entailed frantic reactions by many regime officials. Earlier this week, Ali Majedi, Tehran’s former ambassador to Germany, acknowledged that the Iranian regime has been deeply involved in terrorist activities in Europe.
In an interview with state-run ISNA news agency, Majedi said, “To back their claims, the Europeans have produced evidence that we can’t deny. They have witnesses for their claims. There are some who think they can serve their country’s interests through arbitrary acts.”
Majedi’s remarks came a few days after the EU imposed new sanctions on a subset of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and two of its members for engaging in terror plots on European soil. In one specific case, Assadollah Assadi, a senior diplomat from the Iranian regime’s embassy in Vienna, Austria, was arrested for being directly involved in a failed bombing plot against the annual gathering of the Iranian opposition in France. Assadi had personally handed 500 grams of explosives to an Iranian couple who were tasked with carrying out the attack.
Iranian regime officials tried to dismiss the sanctions as baseless and political pressure and conspiracies by the PMOI/MEK. The Iranian regime has been categorically denying involvement in terrorist activities. The explicit confession of Majedi, a former diplomat, to terrorist activities, has become the source of disputes between Iranian regime officials.
The Iranian regime’s attempts to change the meaning of Majedi’s remarks
The Iranian regime’s foreign ministry issued a statement to justify Majedi’s remarks. While criticizing “misinterpretations of Majedi’s remarks by foreign media and people with wrong deeds,” the foreign ministry’s statement lays the blame for terrorist activities on opposition groups.
“Regarding rogue operations, it is clear that [Majedi] has not made reference to any specific case and was speaking of a general concern about possibilities,” the foreign ministry statement reads. The Iranian regime’s diplomacy further claims that evidence provided by European authorities is not definitive and the claims can’t be proven. “As [Majedi] has stressed, these attacks were probably conducted by opposition groups in ways that will be blamed on Iran,” the statement further reads.
“Foreign media and people with bad intentions are advised not to make their desired interpretations of this interview, and to not attribute their wishes to others,” the Iranian regime’s foreign ministry writes.
The enemy’s representative
For other officials, Majedi’s remarks caused outrage. Keyhan newspaper, which is widely known as the mouthpiece of Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei, published a polemic titled, “Iran’s ambassador or the enemy’s representative?” in which it wrote, “The more regrettable part of this interview is that our country’s former ambassador to Germany has sided with the Europeans regarding terrorism charges against the Islamic Republic.”
Majedi’s confession and the frantic damage control attempts of the foreign ministry, only underline what the Iranian opposition has been warning about for decades: The Iranian regime is a security and terrorist threat to any country where it has embassies and diplomats.
This has been proven by a trail of terror attempts that have surfaced in the past year alone in various countries, including France, Albania, United States, Netherlands and Denmark, where the Iranian regime is trying to lash out against members and supporters of the Iranian opposition as it finds itself increasingly incapable of dealing with growing dissent and uprisings inside Iran.
