The National Council of Resistance of Iran’s (NCRI) Committee on Security and Counterterrorism has published a letter by a former Iranian Intelligence Ministry (MOIS) agent, who now lives in Albania, to the United Nations Secretary-General to shed some light on the regime’s terrorist operations.
The letter, which reveals details of the regime’s new and horrific demonization campaign against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) opposition group, was also sent to the following people and groups:
- The UN High Commissioners for Human Rights and Refugees
- The Secretary-General of Amnesty International
- The International Federation of Human Rights
- The European Parliament’s Friends of a Free Iran intergroup
- The Albanian Interior Minister and General Director of the State Police
- The NCRI’s Security and Counterterrorism Committee
The author, Hadi Sani-Khani, said that he would testify to the revelations and provide the necessary evidence to any court or impartial authority.
He wrote that he joined the PMOI in 2003 at Camp Ashraf, Iraq, and subsequently, following continued attacks by the Iranian regime or their proxies, was moved to Camp Liberty in Iraq and then Ashraf 3 in Albania. Shortly after arriving in Albania in 2016, he left the MEK because he couldn’t “continue the struggle”.
He’d visited the UN Refugee Agency in Tirana and then the Iranian embassy, where he “fell into a trap set by the [MOIS]” and became stuck for four years. He explained that he collaborated with MOIS agents at the Embassy, including Fereidoun Zandi, Ali-Abadi Ebrahim, Massoud Khodabandeh, Gholamreza Shekari, Ehsan Bidi, and Hassan Heyrani, to demonise the PMOI, spy on them, and even do military observations of them in order to conduct terrorist actions.
This involved trying to find out the whereabouts of senior PMOI officials, including Maryam Rajavi, and how many bodyguards they had, but it also involved a major disinformation campaign.
He wrote: “I was tasked to lead a network of a group of agents. The main responsibility of this group was to write articles against the PMOI. The Khodabandeh brothers and Zandi decided the topics and provided talking points and briefs for these articles… These agents were required to set up at least one account on Facebook and one on Instagram, and to write and publish 12 articles against the Mojahedin every month, and to continuously relay and reprint topics and content identified by the embassy or the Ministry of Intelligence.”
In the letter, available in full here, Sani-Khani provided detail information on the amount paid to operatives, how the payment was made, and how the regime uses Western journalists and local agents to plant false stories about the PMOI.
The NCRI’s Security and Counterterrorism Committee recommend the following actions by European countries:
- Closure of Iran’s embassies
- Prosecution and expulsion of MOIS agents, the Revolutionary Guards, and the Quds Force
