Anglo-Iranian
Community in Greater London
Autumn 2007
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Iranian Regime
Islamic Fundamentalism
Terrorism
Designation of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC),
Defence
Ministry and Qods Force
The Mullahs' Ministry of Intelligence
Use of Agents
by the mullahs' Ministry of Intelligence
The Mullahs' Agents in Britain
Witness
Statement of Mr. Winston Griffiths
Massoud and Anne
Khodabandeh (nee Singleton)
Unveiled Service to the Mullahs
Witness
Statement Of Abrahim Khodabandeh
Participating in the June 17th Plot
Participating
in the MOIS’s Spying and Terrorist Plot in Paris
The Failed Plot
of the Mullahs’ Regime in London
Participating in the Knife-Wielding Assault Against
Iranian Refugees in France
“Double Agents”
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.
The Committee stated:
"There
is a possibility of an increased threat to UK
The threat is
often repeated by officials of the Iranian regime. On 16 April 2006, The Sunday
Times reported Dr Hassan Abbasi, head of the Centre for Doctrinal Strategic
Studies in the Revolutionary Guards, as saying that 29 western targets had been
identified for suicide attacks. He added:
“We are ready to attack American and British sensitive points if they attack
Iran England ”
and vowed that “Britain
The threat is why
the government and security services must properly investigate agents of the
Ministry of Intelligence operating in Britain
This paper
concentrates on the role played by the Ministry of Intelligence in terrorist
atrocities across the world. It also identifies agents of the regime operating
in Britain
The Iranian regime
Islamic fundamentalism
Islamic fundamentalism and the terrorism emanating from it represent
the greatest threat to peace and stability worldwide. The heart of this
ideology, which subverts true Islam, beats in Tehran
Recent
years have seen a resurgence in the Iranian regime’s fundamentalist ideology,
which has reached its pinnacle with the instigation of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as
President. Early in his Presidency,
Ahmadinejad proclaimed:
“Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic
revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 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
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. Some of the earliest examples of this were in the early
1980s when the regime manufactured the hostage crisis in Lebanon United States
and France
It is widely acknowledged
within the international community that the Iranian regime is the most active
state sponsor of terrorism, having been responsible for more than 450 terrorist
atrocities worldwide resulting in thousands of deaths. Whether assassinating
Iranian dissidents in the heart of Europe or carrying out terrorist bombings
across the world, each terrorist operation starts in Tehran 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.
In
Nov 7, 2007 , According to AFP, 145 Interpol member states attending the
world police body's annual general assembly in the Moroccan city of Marrakech,
voted against five leading Iranians, wanted by Argentina for their alleged role
in a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people.
Among those subjected to an arrest warrant
was Iran
In November 2006 they issued arrest
warrants against eight Iranians, including former president Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani and former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati.
Designation of Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
Defence Ministry and
Qods Force
On October 25, 2007, the U.S.
Government designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its
terrorist arm, the Qods (Jerusalem
The IRGC's raison d'être – as stipulated in the
regime's constitution and reflected in its practices over the past three
decades – is to protect the clerical regime through the export of terrorism and
fundamentalism and brutal suppression in the country. In addition to its
involvement in the production of weapons of mass destruction and nuclear
weapons, the IRGC has carried out hundreds of terrorist operations abroad and
tortured and executed tens of thousands of political prisoners at home.
The mullahs' Ministry of Intelligence
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
According to an April 2006
international arrest warrant issued by a Swiss judge, Ali Fallahian, who
currently serves as a senior security advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader,
masterminded the April 1990 assassination in Geneva 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
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 the German Capital 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 in 1993,
Zahra Rajabi, member of the NCRI, who was assassinated in Istanbul in 1996, and
Abdul-Rahman Qassemlou, secretary general of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan, who was assassinated in Vienna in 1989. These cases illustrate the role played by the
Ministry of Intelligence in terrorist operations in the heart of Europe .
Dissidents inside Iran Tehran
But, the crimes of the
mullah's Ministry of Intelligence stretch much further. Suicide attacks incited by Islamic
fundamentalist ideology are a hallmark of Iran Khobar
Towers
In 2005, the Revolutionary
Guards announced the formation of a ‘Martyrdom-seekers’ garrison, for the
training of suicide bombers for operations against “Islam’s foes”. On 13 February 2006, speaking to a group of
suicide volunteers, a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards and the
commander of Martyrdom-seekers Garrison, Mohammad-Reza Jaafari, stated:
“Now that
America is after gaining allies against the righteous Islamic Republic and
wants to attack our sanctities, members of the martyrdom-seeking garrisons across
the world have been put on alert so that if the Islamic Republic of Iran
receives the smallest threat, the American and Israeli strategic interests will
be burnt down everywhere…The only tool against the enemy that we have with
which we can become victorious are martyrdom-seeking operations and, God
willing, our possession of faithful, brave, trained and zealous persons will
give us the upper hand in the battlefield.”
Apart from
carrying out its own terrorist operations, the Iranian regime has long used
foreign groups in the Middle East and
elsewhere to carry out terrorist attacks abroad. These groups, funded and armed
by the regime, have operated throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa . Over
the past couple of years, the Iranian regime, and in particular its Ministry of
Intelligence and the Revolutionary Guards, have been most active in Iraq and
Afghanistan, where terrorists armed and funded by the regime are responsible
for widespread killing of civilians and deadly attacks on Coalition forces.
Use of agents
by the mullahs' Ministry of Intelligence
The regime and
its Ministry of Intelligence have focused considerable resources in recruiting
agents in Europe for use against their 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, Germany ’s
Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV) repeated findings
made previously that the Iranian regime’s Intelligence Ministry had been active
in Germany Iran
“The
Iranian opposition in exile in Germany
The report also
said that the main target of these surveillance and other activities are the
NCRI and its largest member organisation, the PMOI, which it described as being
active around the world. The report added:
“VEVAK is
apparently concentrating its efforts at the moment on neutralising opposition
groups and their political activities. VEVAK is directing and financing a
misinformation campaign which is also carried out through former opponents of
the regime. As in previous years, the Iranian intelligence service is trying to
recruit active or former members of opposition groups. This in many cases is
done by threats to use force against them or their families living in Iran …
Iranian diplomatic missions and consulates in Germany provide a suitable base
for the country’s intelligence services to gather information on Iranian
dissidents living in Germany. A large quantity of interesting information can
be gathered within the framework of consular services to Iranians. This
information is analysed by Iranian secret service agents working under cover in
Germany Tehran Germany and Iran
In its 2006 report, BFV maintained,
The 2006 report by the Federal
Office of the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) in Germany makes reference to the activities of the
MOIS thus: "The primary interest of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence
is focused on the People's Mojahedin Organization (MEK) and its political arm,
the National Council of Resistance of Iran Berlin Germany
The Dutch
Internal Security Service (AIVD), in its May 2002 annual report, exposed the
illegal and secret activities of the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence in
Europe, and in particular in the Netherlands
“One of
the tasks of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security is to track down
and identify those who are in contact with opposition groups abroad. Supporters
of the most important opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin, are especially
under scrutiny of Iranian Security Services more than any other group.”
The report added that officials of the Iranian regime:
“…exert
pressure on Western countries to condemn and ban this group [PMOI]. The
Intelligence Ministry tries to gather information on the People’s Mojahedin
Organisation [and its members]. They are trying therefore, to destabilise the
organisation and demonise the Mojahedin in the host country and thus end their
political and social activities. The Mojahedin are aware of these
activities...Through the National Council of Resistance of Iran
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 . In a
publication, 'Peyvand', which is published by Haqi he wrote:
"On Tuesday, 1 February 2000, around 4:30 pm, a
Dutch undercover security agent went to Karim Haqqi’s residence in the Elst Township Netherlands
Lord Avebury,
who has extensively researched and written about Iran’s misinformation
campaigns against the PMOI, said about such individuals in his book 'Iran:
State of Terror',
"These persons, due to their low or non-existent
motivation to continue the struggle and maintain their principles, allowed
themselves to be bought by the regime at a later stage. Such people have so far
provided the regime's terrorists in Europe
with most extensive intelligence and political services."
Win Griffiths Iran ,
as espoused by the NCRI and PMOI, they are bombarded with misinformation about Iran London
The mullahs' agents in Britain
Massoud
Khodabandeh is one of the most active agents of the mullah regime’s Ministry of
Intelligence and Security (MOIS) in Britain Tehran Iran for Britain
In
1993, Khodabandeh informed the organization of his lack of ability to continue
the struggle and proclaimed his defection. In 1998, he traveled to Singapore Singapore
After
a while, Khodabandeh married Anne Singleton. Singleton had begun cooperating
with mullahs’ MOIS in 1997. She regularly visits Iran Tehran
The
MOIS has also set up a website to pursue its goals against the Iranian
Resistance through Massoud Khodabandeh and Anne Singleton in Britain
Unveiled Service to the Mullahs
Massoud
Khodabandeh defected after the first Gulf War when he lost the will to continue
the struggle against the mullahs’ regime. In 1993, he wrote in a letter to the
PMOI:
“At
times bombs were dropping from above … As far as I am concerned (and I did not
pay attention to anything else) I was waiting for a bomb, a bullet, or an
incident to die … A person who is awaiting death has already defected in the
sense that he cannot continue the struggle any longer … I was not motivated to
do anything anymore. I was feeling so apathetic that it was even affecting how
I walk, eat, or talk. I felt like I was at an absolute impasse…”
“I
never thought the crudeness of the word ‘defection’ would someday falter in my
mind. But, I constantly feel that at one of these junctures I would not be able
to carry on anymore. After completing each stage of the struggle, I think to
myself, what about the next one? And, this constant question lingers in my mind:
what will you do, where will you go?
“Before
I approached the organization (PMOI), among a thousand other things I did, I
also used drugs … When I went to the (Iran-Iraq) border, I gradually forgot
about the habit. But, during this period that I have been abroad, I feel … that
I am backtracking day by day. I use different methods to escape the reality I’m
in, from sleeping, … to doing all the wrong things, impeding efforts, and in
the end, again drugs. Right now, I don’t know why, but during this time, I have
gone back to drugs on a number of occasions …”
In
1996, Khodabandeh, due to the reasons cited above, began to carry on with his
personal life. In 1997, he married Anne Singleton. Singleton took on some
marginal activities sympathetic to the PMOI in Britain Singapore
Before
the 2003 Iraq Iraq
Massound
Khodabandeh and Anne Singleton have met with the mullahs’ intelligence agents
in Iran Tehran Iran ,
when the two were crossing Syria
on route to London Iran
Witness Statement of Mr. Winston Griffiths
to the Proscribed Organisations Appeals
Commission (POAC) in July 2007:
Introduction
I was the Labour Member of Parliament for Bridgend from 1987 to
2005, when I retired. I served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales South Wales for ten
years from 1979 (a two year overlap as MP and MEP). During
my many years in Parliament I became familiar with and worked closely with the
National Council of Resistance of Iran
(NCRI) and its member organisation, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran
Iranian Regime's Misinformation Campaign:
I am aware, through personal experience and the experience of many
former colleagues in Parliament 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 immediately bombarded with misinformation about
Iran's main opposition from a variety of sources. Sometimes MPs and Peers are
contacted directly by the Iranian Embassy in London
"These
persons, due to their low or non-existent motivation to continue the struggle
and maintain their principles, allowed themselves to be bought by the regime at
a later stage. Such people have so far provided the regime's terrorists in Europe with most extensive intelligence and political
services."
On other occasions, Parliamentarians are approached by
organisations that claim to be human rights organisations/NGOs who want to save
PMOI members from the organisation. These front organisations for the Iranian
regime include Nejat Society, Peyvand and Aawa Association. The Iranian regime
also uses numerous websites to spread misinformation against the PMOI,
including those listed below:
http://www.iran-interlink.org
I have read the witness statement of Lord Alton of Liverpool who deals at length with the elaborate and
well-financed misinformation campaign against the PMOI. The Iranian regime
expends large sums of money and makes every effort to tarnish the image of the
NCRI and PMOI abroad and diminish its support generally…
Massoud Khodabandeh and 'Iran-Interlink':
Massoud Khodabandeh is a former member of the PMOI who left the
organisation in the mid-1990s, after which, according to his brother, Iran Singapore to meet with MOIS officials and how
Anne Singleton also travelled to Iran
It is clear from the content of the emails recently disclosed by
the Secretary of State and Anne Singleton’s involvement in the previous
proceedings before the Commission, that Massoud Khodabandeh and Anne Singleton
have close contacts with the Foreign Office. In light of the fact that the
Foreign Office refuses to have any form of contact with Iranian individuals or
organisations who express any form of a positive view about the PMOI, the
contacts between the Foreign Office and Massoud Khodabandeh/Anne Singleton is
peculiar to say the least, especially if it is correct that these individuals
are associated with MOIS.
Moreover, in light of what we have learned since Coalition forces
have been responsible for the security of Ashraf City and the safety of its
residents, as well as the evidence provided on behalf of the Appellants, the
allegations made by 'Iran-Interlink' and Anne Singleton have been proven to be
false. Yet, these allegations continue
to be made by the website. They include allegations of mistreatment of PMOI
members and the allegation that PMOI members are not free to leave the
organisation. In an interview with Newswire, Mr Khodabandeh, referring to the
December 2006 judgment of the Court of First Instance, stated,
“The main victims of this court ruling are the individual cult
members interred in Camp
Ashraf
This is in direct conflict with the statement by Lieutenant
Colonel Julie Norman who said in her letter of 24 August 2006,
“Normally, PMOI members invite their families, friends and colleagues
who live in Iran
Trip to Iran
Between 14 and 17 June 2004, I visited Iran
on a humanitarian trip to meet two NCRI members who had been kidnapped in Syria and forcibly, and in breach of
international law, sent to Iran Iran
Evin prison is recognised as one of the most secretive and brutal
prisons in the world. Tens of thousands of 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. She was taking
photographs of Iranian families who had gathered outside Evin prison to learn
of the fate of their relatives – students arrested in widespread anti-regime
protests in Tehran
I was surprised to see Anne Singleton in Evin prison. She even had
her young son with her. She was moving around freely and was in direct contact
with Iranian officials in the prison. This is surprising when it is a known
fact that the relatives of political prisoners find it extremely difficult, if
not impossible, to visit their relatives who are incarcerated. Zahra Kazemi’s
body was not even returned to her family. Moreover, international human rights
organisations are denied access to Evin prison.
Apart from meeting Abrahim and Jamil in Evin prison, I met Abrahim
for three meals and Jamil once. On
arriving at the prison, I expected to be taken to meet Abrahim and Jamil
privately (while Teddy Taylor, MP, looked at some other parts of the prison). I
was surprised however to be taken into a large room where some PMOI
members/sympathisers who had been captured in Iran UK UK , he had told me about taking a month off from
NCRI activities while his mother had visited the UK
I understand that some time after my visit, Abrahim and Jamil made
similar “confessions” to the ones I heard in Evin prison from PMOI
members/sympathisers. I can only underline that the conversations I had with
Abrahim and Jamil during my visit showed they rejected the line put forward in
the “confessions” I heard in Evin prison. Moreover, Abrahim was not comfortable
with the presence of Anne Singleton and I cannot recall a single instance when
they spoke to each other.
Anne Singleton and the Iranian regime had ulterior motives for my
visit and hoped to turn it into a propaganda opportunity for the Iranian
regime. Following my return from Iran
Winston
James Griffiths
July
4, 2007
Witness Statement Of Abrahim Khodabandeh
Massoud Khodabandeh’s brother, Abrahim
Khodabandeh, who has been imprisoned since 2003 when he was extradited to the
Iranian regime by the Syrian government, gave a written witness statement in
2002, in which he exposed Massoud Khodabandeh as a mullahs’ intelligence agent
operating abroad (Annex No.4).
“The person who set up and runs
“Iran-Interlink” is my brother’s wife, Anne Khodabandeh (nee Singleton).
Anne Khodabandeh married my
brother some years ago, but it was not until four years ago that I began to
suspect that she had links with the Iranian clerical regime.
I have been aware for some time
now that my brother, Massoud Khodabandeh, has links with the Iranian Ministry
of Intelligence.
In the early 1980s my brother
left Iran and went to join
the PMOI in Iraq Iraq and went
to France London Singapore
My suspicions regarding my
sister-in-law arose from the following chain of events. About four years ago
(that is, in 1998) I received a number of urgent telephone calls from people I knew
in the office of the International Red Cross in Baghdad Iran Baghdad
I tried to call my mother
straightaway in London Iran Iran Iraq ,
and prevented from leaving Iraq Baghdad to give the appearance
that I was not able to leave Iraq
I then learned that Anne
Khodabandeh had travelled to Iran Iran Iran Iran
Then early this year, when I
was again in Iraq , I
received another call from someone I knew at the International Red Cross office
in Baghdad
When I went to collect this
message, I discovered that it was from my daughter. She told me that she was
worried about what has happening to me in Iraq ,
and whether I would be able to leave Iraq Birmingham
There was also a letter from
Anne Khodabandeh, telling me that my mother was very worried about me and my
situation, and that my mother wanted me to make contact with her immediately.
I called my daughter from Baghdad and asked her who had asked her to send a letter
to me through the Red Cross in Baghdad
I later learned (in spring
2002) when I returned to this country, that Anne Khodabandeh had been in
regular contact with my daughter, trying to find out my whereabouts.
Anne Khodabandeh had also, I
learned, being speaking against the PMOI to my daughter, and had been trying to
distance my daughter from me. I also learned that Anne Khodabandeh had been
trying to persuade my daughter to go with her to Iran Iran
I have seen the
“Iran-Interlink” website, which contains within it allegations that are untrue.
For instance, it is claimed that in the last twenty years, the PMOI has changed
from an “armed political force into a cult”. The website also says that
Iran-Interlink is “concerned about members who may wish to leave the
organisation but who are prevented from doing so”, and that the “fundamental
human rights” of PMOI members are being “violated”.
These claims are untrue and are
identical to the propaganda that has been put out by the Iranian clerical
regime and its agents, in an effort to undermine the Iranian Resistance in the
eyes of its Western supporters, over many years…
My mother was visiting this
country in August 2002, and I met up with her a few times at my daughter’s
house in Birmingham
Anne Khodabandeh told me quite
openly that she had visited Iran a few months before, showed me her
photographs, and told me that during her visit she had been to Khomeini’s
grave. I found this an incredible statement from someone who purports, through
her website, to be concerned with human rights…”
In addition to the official witness
statement in a British court, Abrahim Khodabandeh has also written letters
providing details about the MOIS’s contacts with his mother in Iran for the purpose of bringing Massoud
Khodabandeh back to Iran
“…About 5 years ago, the MOIS contacted my
mother in Tehran and told her to contact Massoud and tell him that he has
received a pardon, and that he could visit Iran freely, meaning that they will
not harm him if he were to return to Iran. After some time, they contacted my
mother again, and told her that they know he has married a foreign woman and
that he wishes to stay in Britain Iran and see for himself that the situation in Iran has changed and then go back to Britain
They contacted her again and said that
there is a woman in London who had been active
in the PMOI, has now defected and visited Iran Iran
Massoud called my mother once and told her
that he has financial problems, and asked her to sell a small house he owned
there, and send the money to him. My mother sold the house, but the MOIS
confronted her and frightened her by saying that ‘you want to sell the house
and send the money to the PMOI.’ Afraid, my mother then refrained from sending
the money to Massoud.
In the past 6 years that Massoud has ceased
to be part of the struggle, my mother has visited Britain New Castle London
Last year, Anne Singleton, with the excuse
of showing her child to my family, visited Iran
Participating in the June 17th Plot
One of the most dreadful services of
Massoud Khodabandeh to the mullahs, was his involvement in the shameful June 17th,
2003 plot against the Iranian Resistance in Paris Paris
This dreadful act took place despite the
fact that according to the Council of Europe’s regulations, all of the member
states were obliged to “coordinated action when it comes to the expulsion of
and blocking of Iran
On March 11, 2005, Mr. Mohammad
Mohaddessin, Chairman of the NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee, William Bourdon
and Francoise Serres, laywers, Jacques Gaillot, bishop of Partenia
and one of the most renowned human rights activists in France, and Patrick
Beaudoin, honorary president of the International Federation for Human Rights,
held a press conference in Paris, in which they revealed the Iranian regime’s
attempts to infiltrate the June 17th case, and also revealed the
roles of some of the regime’s agents who operate under the guise of “former
members of the PMOI.”
Mohammad
Mohaddessin said,
The sources of intelligence for this case
are tied, directly or indirectly, to the mullahs’ MOIS. I have here a document
which clearly shows that from the outset the Iranian MOIS and DST were
coordinating their efforts on this case. This is the “MOIS Bulletin No. 3726/D”
which was sent to senior regime officials on June 23, 2003:
“Item no. 5 – Limited Publication: The said
operation, which is unprecedented, was planned two-and-a-half years ago by the
French security services (DST), and the judicial process for it was designed
gradually, the details of which were shared in the joint meetings with the
above-mentioned agency. According to the plan, 16 senior members of the (PMOI)
in France
According to reports we have obtained from
inside Iran
These six individuals are: Karim Haghi,
Massoud Khodabandeh, Mohammad-Hossein Sobhani, Adham Tayyebi, Alireza
Mir-Askari, and Mohammad-Hossein Mashoufi. The documented evidence indicating
the services of these agents for the MOIS have been published by the Iranian
Resistance on a number of occasions through the past several years, and have
been provided to international human rights organizations, including Amnesty
International, and responsible government officials, including those in France…
Participating in the MOIS’s Spying and Terrorist Plot
in Paris
After the June 17th plot’s
defeat, and the ensuing disgrace it caused for the mullahs’ regime and the
French government at the time, the mullahs’ MOIS started to mobilize its agents
both inside and outside of Iran
to carry out another appalling act against the Iranian Resistance and Mrs.
Maryam Rajavi in France Paris from Britain
The mullahs’ MOIS, in coordination with a
French intelligence service, sent its agents to France under the guise of
“former PMOI members” to carry out a gathering and assault against the Iranian
Resistance from March 29th until the beginning of April 2004 in
Paris, and some other areas near the town of Auvers sur-Oise (Mrs. Maryam
Rajavi’s residence) in Val d’Oise province. Younesi, the then-Minister of
Intelligence for the regime, had announced two weeks prior to this, “Today I
ordered my deputy to immediately convey the crimes of the (PMOI) to the
international community for the record” (State-run TV, March 15, 2005).
Immediately after Younesi’s announcement,
some individuals from Iran
and various European countries were called to France Paris
During these agents’ gathering in the town
of Auvers France
With the exception of Massoud Khodabandeh,
approximately 10 of the agents who were at Auvers sur-Oise that day, came from
the regime’s embassy in France Tehran
The Failed
Plot of the Mullahs’ Regime in London
After the defeat of the mullahs’ plot in Paris , the MOIS attempted to set up a meeting against the
Iranian Resistance at a House of Commons building in London
Lord Robin Corbett, the Chair of the British
Parliamentary Committee for a Free Iran said in a statement dated November 9,
2005 that,
“The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom
has been informed that known agents of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry known
as Iran Interlink, a suspected group related to the mullahs’ regime, are
supposed to have a conference on November 10, 2005 in Fielden House in
Westminster. These people have been
dispatched to justify the Iranian regime President’s remarks inciting terrorism
… It is unbelievable that those who use terror inside the country and incite it
outside the country, think that any sane person would listen to them…Their
hysteric accusations about the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran is
indicative of the success of the Iranian resistance in revealing nuclear
deception of the mullahs, their responsibility for killing British military
forces in Iraq and increasing human rights abuses."
Mr. Griffith,
former British Labour MP, also said in a statement in this regard,
“The Iranian regime attempted to conduct a
meeting through Massoud Khodabandeh and Anne Singleton in Parliament so that it
could disseminate false information against the PMOI. In the end, they were not
allowed to have a meeting at the Parliament and were forced to have it at a
hotel instead. In a feeble attempt to divert attention from its shaky
situation, the Iranian regime, has both directly and indirectly resorted to its
old and tried technique of disseminating lies against the main Iranian
opposition – PMOI. A part of this often repeated and failed policy is to set up
a series of press conferences in the United State and Europe with the aim of
disseminating false accusations against the PMOI, such as the accusation that
the PMOI was Saddam Hussein’s private army, or that its members must be put on
trial…
I am deeply worried about the activities of
Massoud Khodabandeh and his wife, Anne Singleton, who try to divert attention
from the threats posed by the Iranian regime and its activities in a democratic
country like Britain, and I am of the opinion that these actions by the
Medieval regime in Iran display its weakness, because it knows that there is no
place for it in the 21st century.”
Adopting such a prudent stance, the British
Parliament did not permit the meeting by Massoud Khodabandeh and Anne Singleton
to take place, and the British police prevented the MOIS’s agents to enter the
British Parliament.
Participating in the Knife-Wielding
Assault
Against Iranian Refugees in France
On June 17, 2007, Massoud Khodabandeh and
Anne Singleton attended a meeting organized by the regime at the Fiap building
in Paris ,
along with a number of professional knife-wielding agents from the
regime’s embassy in France
When asked a few questions by a number of
Iranian dissidents before the meeting, the MOIS operatives, using knives, tear
gas, and knuckle-dusters, violently attacked and wounded the dissidents. Those
wounded were taken to hospital. Upon learning of the brutality of the MOIS
operatives, the French police cancelled the meeting and arrested a number of
the assailants.
As such, this meeting, which was in reality
a cover for the conspiracies hatched by the MOIS against political refugees and
a staging ground for planning terrorist actions against Iranian dissidents,
degenerated into a disgrace and a humiliating defeat for the mullahs’ regime
and its agents outside Iran. The episode further exposed the role of the
mullahs’ President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the MOIS in conspiring against
political refugees and Iranian dissidents.
“Double Agents”
In addition to carrying out tasks assigned
to them by the mullahs’ MOIS, Khodabandeh and his wife also serve some British
intelligence services and relevant propaganda outlets. The services and
outlets, which in the framework of the policy of appeasement and dealing with
the mullahs must respond to the mullahs’ highest demand for pressuring and
proscribing the PMOI as a terrorist organization, coordinate their activities
with the MOIS. The British services, well aware of Massoud Khodabandeh and his
wife’s affiliation to the Iranian regime’s MOIS, utilize them for the goals
outlined above and provide them with plentiful resources for their missions
against the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance. For example, using official and
unofficial channels, these services infiltrate media outlets in Britain (especially the BBC) and other
countries, to propagate misinformation and accusations against the Iranian
Resistance, identifying these accomplices of the Evin prison torturers as
“experts” on Iran
Massoud Khodabandeh, along with a number of
torturers and MOIS agents, officially and openly communicates and deals with
the “Habilian” association, an official branch of the MOIS, to plot against the
Iranian Resistance. The MOIS has set up several different websites abroad,
including Khodabandeh’s “Iran-Interlink” and “Iran-e Ayandeh” operated by
another agent, Karim Haghi, in addition to a number of sites operated from
within Iran
In a letter to Javad Hashemi-Nejad, an MOIS
torturer whose father was one of the most ruthless criminals of the mullahs’
regime, Massoud Khodabandeh writes (in a letter posted on “Iran-Interlink”
website, which is set up in the name of Khodabandeh and Anne Singleton):
“I know that one of the victims of these
blind killings by the PMOI was your father, who died defenceless and unaware …
Although some of my political and ideological views differ from yours, I cannot
help but go beyond these issues, and express my condolences to your family. As
a person who used to be active in this cult, I feel responsible and thus
apologize.”
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Othman H. al-Bustan, Ebrahim Khodabandeh, Maryam Sanjabi and
others in Baghdad
Iran Interlink,October 26 2014: … Massoud Khodabandeh from
Iran Interlink visited Baghdad over ten days during October 2014 to gather the
latest information pertaining to the Mojahedin Khalq presence in Iraq.
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