The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands:

Karim Haqi

The Iranian Refugees Association in the Netherlands Fall 2007

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi Introduction

-1

Islamic fundamentalism and the terrorism associated with it are the biggest threat to global peace, stability, and security. Islamic fundamentalism, which distorts the religion of Islam and takes advantage of it toward its malevolent goals, was formed after the mullahs hijacked the anti-monarchical revolution, obtained political power in Iran in 1979, and formed a medieval theocracy under the banner of the Rule of the Jurisprudent (concept of velayat-e faqih or absolute rule of the clerics). This regime is essentially at odds with the modern world and sees its survival in repressing the Iranian people and exporting fundamentalism and terrorism abroad in the context of its goal for the creation of an Islamic Empire. The regime pursues this sinister objective by forming and providing full support to fundamentalist groups and organizations. It also attempts to get its hands on a nuclear weapon in order to be able to sustain such policies. As domestic and international crises mount, especially after the recent war in Iraq, the ruling mullahs have adopted an aggressive posture. As such, the mullahs conferred the regimes presidency to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and one of the most fanatical factions within the ruling elite, in order to execute their repressive policies at home and broaden efforts to expand terrorism, fundamentalism, conflict and chaos throughout the region. Past experiences and present realities in Iran and the region highlight the fact that the way to confront the mullahs is neither the policy of appeasement, the ineffectiveness of which has been proven during the last three decades, nor a foreign military intervention. The real solution to the threat of the mullahs lies in democratic change by the Iranian people and their organized resistance movement. This is precisely what the mullahs fear as their most serious existential threat, because, as the United States Congress and many European parliamentarians have noted, the Iranian Resistance is sustaining a democratic struggle against the mullahs in order to establish democracy, rule of law, separation of religion and state, and equality for women in Iran. The central force within the Iranian Resistance, the Peoples Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), with its firm belief in a democratic and tolerant Islam, is the antithesis and the only alternative to a barbaric regime that abuses Islam in order to justify its dictatorial and expansionist policies. This is especially true since the Iranian Resistance made the international community aware of the clandestine nuclear weapons program of the mullahs, and as such averted a potential global catastrophe. Such awareness made the international community more aware of the mullahs threat and caused it to prevent the mullahs from being able to acquire nuclear weapons. The PMOI also revealed the facts about the regimes terrorist and fundamentalist activities, especially its meddling in Iraq, by bringing into light the names, particulars, and bank accounts of more than 32,000 cohorts and agents of the mullahs in Iraq and its governmental institutions. As such, the Resistance made the international community alert of another threat posed by the mullahs, which is indeed hundreds of times greater than that of the regimes nuclear weapons program. Consequently, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its extraterritorial terrorist arm, the Qods Force, were placed on the list of proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and the list of terrorist organizations. Additionally, the Iranian Resistance exposed the mullahs horrific human rights record through an extensive global diplomatic and political campaign. As such, it played a decisive

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

-2

role in the condemnation of the regime at various United Nations organs on 54 different occasions. It is for these reasons, that the religious dictatorship ruling Iran, in conjunction with its repression and assassinations, utilizes every single resource it has at its disposal to taint and discredit the image of the Iranian Resistance on the world stage. To reach this objective, the mullahs have sustained an overwhelming campaign of vilification against the Resistance in a bid to compel the International community, and specifically Europe and the United States, into believing that there are no credible alternatives for their regime. They even claim that the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance, i.e. the mullahs biggest existential threats, are worst and more dangerous than the Iranian regime. As a result, they want the world to believe that it is best to deal with the current medieval religious dictatorship ruling Iran, and in return for offering lucrative trade deals, they expect the world to collaborate with them in repressing the Iranian opposition movement. In order to grasp the real extent of the regimes apprehension when it comes to the PMOI, it would suffice to note the comments made by Mike Gapes, chair of the British Parliaments Foreign Affairs Committee, in a parliamentary session on November 28, 2007, after returning from a trip to Iran:

When we went to Iran I certainly and I think my colleagues,

were struck by the number of times that the Iranians wanted to raise the issue of what they call the MKO terrorist organisation or clique or some other term of that kind to a level of almost of obsession that it was on their program, they wanted us to talk about it and they raised it in lots of different contexts. It is worth noting that the mullahs, in addition to an official propaganda campaign and resorting to diplomatic efforts and trade deals against the Iranian Resistance, have unofficially dedicated the resources and capabilities of several ministries and governmental institutions along with an annual budget amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, and agents, networks, and front organizations (in the guise of opposition activists) to wage a vilifying campaign against the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance. This is because the regimes status as a hated abuser of human rights (a record stained with oppression, hangings, stoning, torture, and public executions), and its export of fundamentalism, terrorism and chaos have severely restricted its propaganda abilities through official governmental channels. For this reason, the mullahs Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), which is in reality a notorious organized crime network engaged in killings, assassinations, surveillance, and a host of other sinister activities, wages a vilifying campaign against the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance through its agents and front organizations in European countries and the US. These agents are generally used and introduced as former PMOI members and officials. Some of these agents include those who from the very beginning belonged to the MOIS or the IRGCs Qods Force, and were assigned a mission to infiltrate the ranks of the PMOI in Iraq. After the true identities and mission of these individuals were revealed, the PMOI sent them back following the completion of investigations. The regimes MOIS sends some of

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

-3

these people on missions abroad, so that they can introduce themselves as former PMOI members, who have been tortured and harassed by the PMOI, forcibly returned to Iran, and have now escaped Iran to seek asylum abroad. They claim that they are facing threats from both the PMOI and the Iranian regime. Agents such as Mohammad Hossein Sobhani, Farhad Javaheri-Yar, and Hossein Sadeqian, fit into this category. The second category includes individuals that were at a time opposed to the regime and within the Resistances ranks, but due to the hardships and difficulties demanded by the struggle against the regime, and because of their inability to face these difficulties, they left the Resistance and sold themselves to the regimes MOIS. The PMOIs relentless struggle for freedom and democracy against the mullahs religious dictatorship has gathered hundreds of thousands of members and sympathizers around this movement. According to the regimes officials, in the early 1980s alone, the PMOI had organized more than half a million people in Iran (Memoirs of Hashemi Rafsanjani, regimes former president). Throughout this hard struggle for freedom, more than 120,000 people have sacrificed their lives, executed by the religious fascism ruling Iran. Such a difficult road means that some individuals can no longer tolerate the brunt and leave the Resistances ranks to continue on with their ordinary lives. Such a mechanism of people being drawn to and leaving the ranks, is characteristic of any resistance movement throughout history, and would especially be the case for a movement fighting against the most brutal dictatorship in modern times. As such, throughout the years, a considerable number of people have left the Resistances ranks and returned to their personal lives. The overwhelming majority of these individuals continue to be the Resistance movements sympathizers and each works to garner support for the movement according to his/her abilities. Many of them have countered the MOISs psychological warfare and false propaganda against the PMOI and the Resistance. However, a small number of people have also been drawn or threatened to collaborate with the MOIS. Agents such as Karim Haqi, Shams Haeri, Massoud Jabani, Habib Khorrami, and Massoud Khodabandeh, among others, fit into this category. In a book published by the Human Rights Group at the British Parliament, Lord Avebury writes the following about such agents: Another method (used by the Iranian intelligence service) is using the small number of defectors who had at one stage cooperated with opposition organizations and individuals. 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 regimes terrorists in Europe with the most extensive intelligence and political services. In addition to providing information on the assassination targets to the regime, they prepare the political grounds for the murders of the dissidents by spreading propaganda against the individuals or organizations they had previously cooperated with, defaming them and accusing them of being worse than the ruling regime.

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

-4

Therefore, the MOIS sends such agents as opposition activists to various places, forms front organizations and introduces them as independent (again, as opposition), creates websites, publishes and distributes volumes of newsletters, brochures, colorful books, and organizes events and conferences with the help of these agents and organizations, all in order to execute its political and propaganda campaign against the Iranian Resistance. These agents and associations deny their true political identity and links with the MOIS, and present themselves as former PMOI members and officials who still remain opposed to the mullahs in Iran. Win Griffiths, a former minister and respected member of the British Parliament, who is an expert in Iranian affairs, has shared his own and his colleagues experiences in this regard. In a statement to Britains Proscribed Organizations Appeal Commission (POAC) in July 2007, he stated: 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, which tries to convince Parliamentarians that they have misunderstood the Iranian regime and been deceived about the true nature of the NCRI and PMOI. On other occasions, disaffected former members of the PMOI who have been recruited by the Iranian regime to spread misinformation against the PMOI approach Parliamentarians. As mentioned above, to carry out the MOIS objectives against the Iranian Resistance, these agents are directed and operate in the context of a string of front organizations and different websites, all controlled by the MOIS, in various countries. Some of the MOIS front organizations in Iran include the Nejat association, Habilian, Victims of Violence, and websites under the same names. Outside of Iran, MOIS runs front associations such as Iran Payvand, Iran Interlink, Ava, Ghalam, etc., and operates website under the same names. Western security services are aware of the Iranian regime taking advantage of the democratic conditions available to it in the West to expand its intelligence and spying activities in such countries. Official German and Dutch Security Services Reports 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.

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

-5

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV) in Germany, in its 1999 annual report noted: The principal objective of the Iranian secret service continues to be the fight against Iranian oppositionists. The Peoples Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and its political wing, the NCRI, are still the top target of the Intelligence Ministrys activities. To fight against the activities of the opposition in exile, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has set up a series of cultural associations. These operate as a front for the MOIS and the Iranian regime. Other than this, the MOIS tries to publish various publications, some in the name of those who introduce themselves as ex-members of the PMOI, in order to persuade sympathizers to abandon the organization. In its May 2002 annual report, Germanys Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV) repeated findings made previously that the Iranian regimes Intelligence Ministry had been active in Germany. In its report under the heading, Peoples Mojahedin of Iran, prime target of surveillance operations, BFV states: The Iranian opposition in exile in Germany remains the focus of surveillance activities of the Iranian Intelligence, VEVAK (the Ministry of Intelligence), which keeps them under systematic surveillance and observation. 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 countrys 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 and is enriched with complimentary information. Final decisions on suggestions on recruitment are made by VEVAKs headquarters in Tehran. Freer travel between Germany and Iran has provided good facilities for VEVAK agents to establish their contacts and recruit agents.

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

-6

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 (NCRI). The MOIS tries to recruit current and former members of this group to use them as spies in order to obtain information on the antigovernment activities of this organization The MOIS has a secret office in the Iranian embassy in Berlin. MOIS agents work under diplomatic cover and try to brief and assign those affiliated with its intelligence services to engage in intelligence gathering activities in Germany." The Dutch Internal Security Service (AIVD), in its May 2002 annual report, exposed the illegal and secret activities of the regimes Ministry of Intelligence in Europe, and in particular in the Netherlands. The report stated: 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 Peoples 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 Peoples 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, they inform the authorities of host countries of the secret activities of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry which is trying to spread negative information against them. The Mullah Regimes Agents in the Netherlands Karim Haqi Karim Haqi is one of the most loathed MOIS agents outside of Iran. He resides in the Netherlands, but travels with MOIS grants to carry out assigned missions and organize events and meetings, which the MOIS sets up in the US and various European countries against the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance. Karim Haqi began to serve the MOIS in 1995. His links with the MOIS were originally secret, but from 1996 onwards he was in direct and regular contact with the regimes

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

-7

consulate in the Netherlands. His contact with the regimes consulate in the Netherlands is an individual identified as Maqsoudi. After a while, Haqi turned out to be one of the most active MOIS agents in the Netherlands and European countries. After being with the PMOI and the NLA in Iraq, in 1991 during the First Gulf War and the ensuing bombings of Iraq, Karim Haqi announced that he cannot continue to stay in the NLA citing physical problems. Haqi and his wife (Mohtaram Babai) requested that they leave NLA bases and be sent to Baghdad to continue on with their personal lives. The PMOI transferred Haqi to Baghdad and provided him with all the necessities for a normal life. In a letter dated November 1992, Haqi wrote in this regard:

"As you know, following the bombing of Ashraf camp, the organization (PMOI) transferred me (Karim Haqi Monii, combatant of the Liberation Army) and my wife and children to a Jalalzadeh urban base in Baghdad city center. This was of course upon my request and my wife. During this period, in addition to all facilities which were available for every combatant and members of the organization, we received twice as much attention and special food and personal requirements were provided to us. On top of all, a private apartment and a car for family use in the city were given to us and we received 1,000 Iraqi dinars every month. Me and my family were not restricted in any way." After a few months in Baghdad, during which he was provided with all the required necessities and resources, Karim Haqi requested that he be sent to the US or Europe. In January 1993 the PMOI paid for and transferred Haqi and his wife to France. There, he was helped by the PMOI to obtain a political asylum. All the living expenses for Haqi and his wife in France were paid by the PMOI. These included deposit and rent for a place to live, basic home appliances, monthly expenses, etc. While the legal status of his refugee application was not yet resolved, Haqi suddenly decided to go to the Netherlands and become a refugee there instead. Based on the information and documents obtained later, it was revealed that the reason for his move to the Netherlands was his links with the MOIS through his brother.

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

-8

After cutting ties with the PMOI, Haqi began to serve the mullahs MOIS in carrying out its policies to vilify the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance. After four years, he claimed that he and his wife (Mohtaram Babai) were tortured and jailed by the PMOI in Iraq, and that three years later, and because of such torture and pressures inflicted in Iraq, his wife committed suicide in the Netherlands. Karim Haqis Wife Commits Suicide in Protest to his Treason and Corrupt Behavior After Haqi established contacts with the mullahs MOIS through the regimes embassy in the Netherlands, a large number of means and resources were made available for him. According to Iranians residing in the Netherlands and his friends, Karim Haqi was engaged in extra-marital affairs. After finding out about this, his wife, Mohtaram Babai, became emotionally distraught. Not being able to tolerate Haqis behavior, in April 1995, Mohtaram Babai committed suicide in protest to Haqis illegitimate relations. Jamshid Tafrishi, a friend of the couple, who according to his own testimony cooperated with the MOIS, temporarily cut ties with the MOIS and revealed some information about the plans and activities of the MOISs network outside Iran. In his book, The Plots and Plans of the MOIS against the PMOI, (p. 60), Tafrishi writes about Mohtaram Babais suicide: "A few days after the start of the Iranian new year in 1995 (Iranian new year starts on March 21) I telephoned Karim Haqi's home and Mohtaram Babai, his wife answered and said he was not home. after making some complaints about Karim Haqi, Mohtaram said, 'Since we have arrived in the Netherlands he has turned my life into hell. His dirty doings have reached a level that sometimes I cannot tolerate and I want to kill myself.' Three days later I heard that she had committed suicide. When she became certain that Karim Haqi had extramarital relations with another woman, she made her final decision and hanged herself from the ceiling of the bathroom in her residence." According to these sources, the MOIS instructed Haqi to blame his wifes suicide on the PMOI. At first, Haqi had decided to send Mohtaram Babais body to Iran with the help of the regimes embassy in the Netherlands. However, the MOIS suggested that the body be buried in the Netherlands in order to use it as a propaganda tool against the PMOI. This was done by Maqsoudi (who was in charge of the network of the regimes agents at its consulate in the Netherlands). In return for Haqis cooperation, and in the span of less than a week, Maqsoudi arranged for the travel of a number of Babais family members who had been released from prison to the Netherlands. After coming to the Netherlands and discovering Haqis status and his role in the story, the Babai family expressed anger and disgust at what he had done.

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

-9

Meanwhile, in conjunction with Haqi and Maqsoudis claims at the regimes consulate in the Netherlands, state-run media outlets in Iran, such as the Kayhan and Resalat dailies, quoted Haqi in December 1995, writing, His wife was tortured in PMOI prisons, and after being released went to the Netherlands, but despite months of treatment, she finally died. Mohtaram Babais last letter, which reveals her reasons for committing suicide, is at the hands of the Dutch police. Every Iranian refugee and the couples friends know that the real reason Babai committed suicide was her heated conflicts with her husband Karim Haqi. According to their friends, Ms. Babai continually expressed her anger about Haqis illegitimate relations, such that on numerous occasions the couples fights escalated to physical violence, which could no longer be tolerated by Ms. Babai, and thus led to her suicide. Statements by Minister of Justice and the Interior of the Dutch Government In 1999, as part of its psychological warfare and lies against the Iranian Resistance, the MOIS tried to claim that the PMOI had attacked the home and office of Haqi in Germany and the Netherlands, and stole his belongings, on three different occasions, the last one of which was on March 28, 1998. He filed a complaint against the PMOI in Arnheim, the town of his residence. But, the allegations and charges levied were so ridiculous that Arnheims prosecutor formally announced that he does not consider the complaint worthy to be reviewed within the criminal process of the Netherlands, and thus refused to continue working on the complaint. With regards to the allegations made by Karim Haqi and other agents of the mullahs regime in the Netherlands against the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance, a number of the representatives of the Dutch Parliament, posed some questions to the ministers of the Interior and Justice in the Netherlands. In reply, the said ministers rejected the validity of the accusations (See the minutes from the Parliamentary proceedings, Dutch Parliament, 19981999, No. 1435): Questions: 1- Are you aware of an article published in the de Volkskrant daily about the people's Mojahedin on April 28? 2- What is your view and judgment about allegations made by Karim Haqi (a veteran member of the organization) regarding the activities of the Mojahedin in the Netherlands in which, according to him, has advanced and turned into a Mafia Style organization whose task is to smuggle people and collect money using fraudulent methods and putting pressure on its opponents? 3- Does the Dutch government have any other information on possible illegal activities of the Mojahedin in the Netherlands? Answers: Answer to first questioni is: Yes Answer to questions 2 and 3: If there had been any such activities or any documents in that regard in the Netherlands, they have not

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 10

reached the police or the Justice Department, except a complaint submitted by Karim Haqi about a case of robbery and his article in de Volkskrant on April 28, 1999. The Mojahedin are known in The Netherlands as an organization that organizes peaceful demonstrations. It is also apparent that they collect contributions in the streets under an affiliated charity called SIM. In that respect, there has been some conflict on the way the collectors deal with the people to raise contributions. But there is no record or document indicating that Mojahedin have been involved in smuggling people or committing any other serious illegal acts of a criminal nature. Iran Payvand: An MOIS Front Association Iran Payvand is one of the MOISs front associations abroad. It was set up by the MOIS through Karim Haqi. A publication entitled Payvand is also meant to carry out the regimes propaganda against the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance. This publication is mailed to Iranians free of charge. The MOIS collects the postal addresses of Iranian refugees with the help of its agents and provides Haqi with this information so that he can send them the publications. The goal of mailing such publications is to pressure Iranian refugees to return to Iran as well as to vilify the Iranian Resistance. As well, some of the funds sent by the MOIS to Haqi and other agents for their activities are wired into the Payvand publications bank account. The mullahs MOIS has also rented a three storey building in Kleve, Germany, for Haqi and a number of other agents to conduct their activities. The reason the MOIS has chosen Kleve as the Iran Payvand associations office is that from this location it is faster and easier for Haqi to carry out his assignments for the MOIS in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Another MOIS assignment for Karim Haqi and his associates is to send free MOIS publications, penned in his own name or other names, against the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance (published in the Netherlands or Iran), to foreign political and social figures (in Europe, US, Canada, Australia, etc.) who support the Resistance (See Attachment 1). Haqi also sends thousands of copies of costly MOIS publications against the PMOI, free of charge, and in the form of independent publications, to the Resistances friends and neighbors in France (especially the town of Auvers sur-Oise and other cities in Val dOise). Saeed Emami, an MOIS Deputy, Acknowledgements Jamshid Tafrishi, an MOIS agent and one of Haqis former associates, writes in his book, The Plots and Plans of MOIS against the PMOI: "In March 1996, Karim Haqi met with Saiid Emami (one of the senior officials of the Ministry of Intelligence who was in charge of terrorist operations abroad against members of the

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 11

opposition. According to officials of the regime, he had carried out 150 successful operations outside Iran) in Singapore. "Peyvand publication was a cover to receive money which was to pay for members of the network around mid June 1997, Reza, Emami's deputy, contacted and said that we had to give the task of publishing a journal to Karim Haqi the journal fulfills part of our requirements and asked me (Jamshid Tafreshi) to write articles to be published in the journal under the name of Karim Haqi or others following the publication of the first issue of Peyvan in August 1997, Amir Hossein Taqavi (general director of the European bureau of the Ministry of Intelligence who was the head of the Special Operations since 1992 and directly led terrorist operations abroad) called me (Jamshid Tafreshi) and asked me to give my views on the journal." Therefore, Haqi receives money and other resources directly from the PMOI in Tehran. He is also in contact with other well-known MOIS agents in Europe. In order to keep these links secret, for a while, Haqis meetings with MOIS officials were being held in some east Asian countries such as Singapore. Through its lobbies and political connections in various countries, the regime also arranges meetings for Haqi and other MOIS agents, presenting themselves as opposition activists, with human rights figures and organizations and parliamentarians, so that it can discredit the Iranian Resistance in their eyes through its vilification campaign. However, Iranian residents and refugees wonder how Karim Haqi and other agents like him who claim that they are just a group of refugees and have no other source of income, can afford the costs of lucrative trips (at times in groups of tens) to various European destinations and the US, and set up so-called seminars and conferences. Iranians wonder who pays the high costs for extensive propaganda against the PMOI, setting up TV networks like Payvand TV, publishing various materials such as Payvand, Iran Payvand, etc., which are managed and run by the agents. These activities, in light of their nature and objectivem, which is to vilify the Iranian Resistance, and the lavish costs associated with them, cannot be paid for by anyone other than the MOIS and its abundant budget. Dutch Police Warning to Karim Haqi with Regards to His Links with the MOIS The cooperation and contact of Karim Haqi and other agents with the mullahs MOIS in the Netherlands and other countries, has not gone unnoticed for the Dutch police and security services. In February 2000, the Dutch police visited Haqi and a number of other regime agents, and issued warnings to them with regards to their activities and links with the MOIS in the Netherlands and countries like Norway, Germany, and Canada. Karim Haqi himself confessed to this in his Iran Payvand (See Attachment 2):

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 12

On Tuesday, February 1, 2000, an agent of the Dutch secret service arrived at Karim Haghis residence in Elst and, after initial talks He said: All of you are in contact with the Iranian regime and have formed a large network You must tell us who else is in contact with the Iranian regime We have enough information about your ties with the regime and know that your publication is being financed by the Iranian regime. We also know that Mr. Shams Haeri is in touch with the regime and his contact with the Ministry of Intelligence is his brother. He has traveled to Singapore to meet his MOIS contacts We want the Netherlands calm and peaceful and do not like to have demonstrations and fighting here. It is best for you to abandon this sort of work at once and go after a normal life and think of your childrens future. On the same day another secret agent was present at the parking lot near the workplace of Mrs. Roya Roodsaz, Karim Haghis wife, and when she was about to get into her car, he introduced himself and told her that he intended to talk to her. He talked about Haghis activities and where the funds for Peyvand publication were coming from. The secret agent told her that Karim and his friends have formed a large network and all of them are in touch with the Iranian regime. Karim has once traveled to Cyprus in this regard. On the same day, six persons in groups of two approached Mehdi Khoshhal, Bahman Rastgoo and Mrs. Nadereh Afshari in three German cities, Cologne, Wiesbaden and Hannover and asked about the contacts and the circulation of Peyvand publication, how it was financed, etc. In the first week of February, Messrs. Shams Haeri, Mohammad Reza Eskandari and his wife Tahereh Khorrami were subjected to questioning (by the Dutch security service). Despite warnings by the security services in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Canada, Karim Haqi and his associates in the Netherlands and other countries continue their contact and cooperation with the mullahs MOIS. Exploiting Human Rights Organizations in order to Abuse Human Rights On January 16, 1996, Karim Haqi and 11 other agents of the regime, met with Professor Maurice Copithorne, the UN Special Human Rights Representative, in Geneva, and claimed that they had been tortured and imprisoned by the PMOI. They unsuccessfully tried to convince Prof. Copithorne, who was in charge of monitoring the human rights situation in Iran, to accuse the PMOI, which struggles for freedom and is itself the biggest victim of human rights violations by the mullahs, of human rights abuses! It is common knowledge,

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 13

moreover, that it is the Iranian regime that has been condemned on numerous occasions by the UN, the European Parliament, and other human rights organs, for its barbaric human rights abuses. Similarly, as the head of other teams of MOIS agents, Karim Haqi met with Amnesty International, and the Human Rights Watch representative in Germany, the details of which were revealed at that time by the Iranian Resistance and Iranian refugees, through which human rights organizations were made aware of the regimes plots. Many of the European parliamentarians in various countries who are familiar with MOIS propaganda tactics carried out by Haqi and other agents can testify about them. Paolo Casaca, co-chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran committee at the European Parliament, in a statement dated November 29, 2006, pointed to the extensive efforts made by the MOIS, through its agents, to conduct a vilifying campaign against the Resistance, and noted (See Attachment 3): Once my efforts on behalf of the resistance movement became public I began to receive dozens of dubious letters from unknown individuals who claimed to be opposed to the regime but also criticized the Mojahedin. It did not work. The next stage was somehow more sophisticated. This time it was not the Iranian regime or unknown individuals but people who claimed to be former members of the organization whose aim was to put it bluntly justifying the crimes committed by the terrorist regime ruling Iran. I also received some very slick booklets that had the appearance of being published by genuine cultural associations. But after reading through them I could easily discern that the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) was hiding behind all the glossy pages. I have gone through all the allegations such as "terrorism" "attacking civilians" "imprisonment of dissidents" "cult-like behavior" and a great deal more. I have seen no merit in these allegations. Karim Haqi has been collaborating with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) since 1995. Haqi operates out of an outfit called "Payvand". His extensive contacts with the MOIS even drew attention from the Dutch internal security service. They interrogated him on several occasions and warned him about his contacts with and receiving money from the MOIS Arranging Legal Cases against the Iranian Resistance

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 14

One of the more recent MOIS initiatives in Europe, which Karim Haqi and other agents of the regime have been tasked to carry out, has been to try to form cases against the PMOI and the National Council of Resistance of Iran, by providing misinformation to government officials and intelligence services sympathetic to the mullahs. Prior to former mullahs President Mohammad Khatamis visit to France in March 2005, the MOIS attempted to gather all its agents from various countries and gather them in the town of Auvers sur-Oise and the surrounding areas northwest of Paris, to pressure and prevent the Iranian Resistance and its sympathizers from organizing a demonstration against Khatamis visit. The agents assembly, which according to Agence France Presse included about 50 MOIS agents, was faced with angry reaction from French residents. French newspapers reported on the mullah agents disgraceful assembly and interviewed residents of Auvers sur-Oise (Attachment 4):
Page 14 - Lcho - Le Rgional - mercredi 13 avril 2005

APRES LA MANIFESTATION DES OPPOSANTS

Les Moudjahidins dnoncent la provocation

La dmonstration de lIran Payvand Association devant les mairies dAuvers-sur-Oise et de Mry a laiss un got amer aux Moudjahidins et aux habitants acquis leur cause.

est peu de dire que les Moudjahidins du Peuple installs Auvers-sur-Oise et leurs

amis Auversois ou Mrysiens ont peu got la manifestation provocatrice du groupe qui sintitule Iran Payvand Association, la semaine dernire. Les uns et les autres ont t indigns de ce quils considrent comme une grossire intrusion de personnages plus que douteux, sans doute tlguids par un rgime iranien jug abject, pour lancer des accusations sujettes caution. Un panneau calicot a particulirement indign, juste titre. On y voit des photographies de sympathisants des Moudjahidins simmolant par le feu, voici deux ans, aprs lopration de police. Et comme seule lgende Bruguire, hros de la lutte contre le terrorisme . Un manque dhumanit lmentaire qui ne peut que provoquer le mpris.

Laffaire Zahra Kazemi

Mais sans doute les partisans des mollahs nen sont pas une monstruosit prs. Il suffit de se rappeler le sort de la journaliste irano-canadienne Zahra Kazemi, aprs son arrestation en juin 2003 pour avoir photographi une prison iranienne et morte quatre jours plus tard. Les autorits de Thran ont toujours refus de rendre son corps sa famille, et pour cause. Selon un mdecin iranien, Shahram Aazam, qui avait pu voir son cadavre, elle avait le nez fractur, le crne fendu, des doigts casss, les ongles arrachs, un orteil en bouillie et le vagin compltement lacr la suite dun viol brutal , peut-tre avec un morceau de bois. Un traitement que les mollahs ont sans doute trouv normal puisque le rgime des mollahs a acquitt le principal suspect de ces tortures et attribu la mort de Zahra un malaise ! Que les trublions qui ont manifest Auvers aient proclam vive le juge Bruguire ne peut quinterpeller la conscience civique et morale des Franais. Certains se sont tonns que lcho donne la semaine dernire la parole M. Karim Haggi, le peu

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 15

reluisant leader du groupe de manifestants anti-Moudjahidin. Mais cest prcisment lhonneur de notre journal de donner la parole chacun, contrairement ce qui se fait en Iran. Ce qui justifie de revenir sur cette affaire pour apporter notre point de vue et celui des Auversois.

La parole chacun
les Moudjahidins du peuple dAuvers-sur-Oise ne sont pas les moins indigns. Leur porteparole, Aladdin Touran, a tenu rpondre aux graves accusations contre la Rsistance iranienne : Ce qui sest pass le 1er avril fait partie dune campagne de dsinformation

mene par le ministre iranien des renseignements. Exasprs et dpits par lampleur du soutien que les Franais et surtout les Valdoisiens apportent la Rsistance iranienne et Madame Radjavi, prsidente de la Rpublique lue par cette rsistance, les mollahs en Iran ont essay de fomenter des troubles dans la rgion tout en cherchant diaboliser la Rsistance .

Fomenter des troubles

Comme par hasard, 15 mars 2005, le mollah Ali Younessi, ministre des renseignements, qui dirige cette campagne, avait annonc : Jai donn lordre de porter la connaissance de

toutes les instances internationales et dans les plus brefs dlais, les crimes commis par les Modjahedines." Aladdin Touran nous raconte la suite : Auparavant, en rponse aux demandes formules par Thran pour exercer des pressions contre la Rsistance iranienne, un service franais avait rtorqu qutant donn la popularit de ce mouvement en France, il faudrait runir un nombre important dIraniens Auvers-sur Oise pour afficher une opposition la Rsistance. Cest alors que lon pourra sous prtexte datteinte lordre publique, augmenter la pression sur les Iraniens dAuvers. Mais la campagne sest solde par un chec total et les mollahs nont pu rassembler quune cinquantaine de leurs agents, bien connus, Auvers-sur-Oise. Certains venaient de lambassade du rgime en France, dautres arrivaient dIran et le reste de divers pays dEurope comme lAllemagne, les Pays-Bas, la Sude, la Norvge, lAngleterre ou la Suisse. Ils sont abhorrs par les Iraniens pour leur collaboration avec la dictature. Pas mme un seul Iranien rsidant en France ne se trouvait parmi eux, bien quils soient des milliers habiter dans lHexagone.

Manipulation
Selon les Moudjahidins dAuvers, lassociation hollandaise Iran Payvand, organisatrice de la manifestation, est lie au ministre des renseignements de Thran. Selon sa revue, Payvand , au moins dix individus parmi ceux venus Auvers le 1er avril ont t questionns par les services hollandais, allemands, anglais, norvgiens, et autres en raison de leurs relations avec les services iraniens. Selon Peyvand, la police hollandaise a affirm Karim Haggi, le prsident de ladite association : Nous disposons de documents suffisants pour dmontrer que vous tes en relation avec le rgime iranien qui vous paye, entre autres, les frais de cette revue. Sans commentaires...

Jean-Franois DUPAQUIER

Several members of the Paris bar association also released a statement in Paris, which condemned the MOIS agent gathering in Auvers sur-Oise, and revealed the gatherings links with the mullahs MOIS (Attachment 5): Aujourdhui, 1er avril 2005, dinformations concordantes et recoupes, il semble que des agents des services secrets iraniens aient dcid dtre prsents dans la zone dAuvers-sur-Oise pour y mener des actions inconnues mais dont lobjectif ne peut tre que

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 16

de discrditer le CNRI, voire de donner de la consistance la criminalisation dont ils sont artificiellement lobjet. Ils mettent en garde les autorits franaises sur toutes formes de complaisance qui pourraient conduire favoriser des comportements dont le seul objet est de tenter de crer, par la provocation, des troubles lordre public. Les Avocats des Membres du CNRI rappellent que ce sont ces mmes services secrets iraniens qui recrutent des anciens membres de lorganisation pour les transformer en tmoins providentiels pour les Magistrats Instructeurs Supporting the Mullahs Criminal President Ahmadinejad Subsequent to the failed plot of the mullahs in Paris, the MOIS attempted to set things aright by organizing a meeting against the Iranian Resistance at a building affiliated with the British House of Commons. The meeting was cancelled due to extensive protests on the part of representatives from both houses as well as human rights activists. Lord Robin Corbett, chairman of the British parliamentary committee for Iran Freedom, said in a statement issued on November 9, 2005: 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 Presidents 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 themTheir hysteric accusations about the Peoples 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." Failing to set up their meeting at the building affiliated with the House of Commons, the mullah regimes agents gathered in a hotel in London to continue to propagate MOIS lies and accusations against the Resistance. Despite various statements and invitations by the MOIS for this meeting, not even a single British citizen, politician, journalist, nor even Emma Nicholson, or anyone from the Netherlands, showed up at the meeting. Karim Haqi, Massoud Khodabandeh, and Anne Singleton (Khodabandeh), were the only organizers of this event. Extremely angered by the disgraceful failure, Haqi began to defend and support the mullahs President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He said, Ahmadinejad talks with courage and

honesty. The threat from the PMOI is more than the nuclear threat of the regime.

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 17

Peace and Solidarity Demonstration in Support of the Regimes Nuclear Program Recently, subsequent to the blacklisting of the regimes Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and other organs as terrorists and proliferators of weapons of mass destruction by the United States, and in the midst of the adoption of a third round of sanctions at the UN Security Council against the mullahs nuclear program, Karim Haqi continues his activities under the banner of global peace movement. Haqi, along with the regimes other agents and lobbies in countries like the Netherlands, Germany, and France, is active in setting up superficial events in France. These events are organized by the regime through its front associations with the aim of supporting the mullahs nuclear projects, and also opposing the more decisive policies of the new French government vis--vis the adventurism of the mullahs regime. For example, on October 27, 2007, Haqi and Javad Firouzmand headed a so-called demonstration, which took place after a month-and-a-half-long MOIS-run campaign in France to support the regimes nuclear program under the banner of Peace, Solidarity, and Opposing War. This demonstration failed miserably. Voice of America TV (October 27, 2007) reported that only 11 people had attended the so-called demonstration! The regimes embassy employees and MOIS agents who had attended the demonstration, began to leave the scene in shame. The intelligence centre of the regimes embassy, which had organized the above protest, could only take well-known MOIS agents from various countries to the scene. These agents included: Karim Haqi from the Netherlands; Javad Firouzmand and Jahangir Shadanlou from France; Mohammad Hossein Sobhani, Ali-Akbar Rastgou, Amir Movassaqi, Ali Qashqavi, and Abbas Sadeqinejad from Germany; Termadoyan from Switzerland, and 2 agents from the regimes embassy and MOIS in France (See Attachment 6). Iranian Refugees in the Netherlands Demand the Expulsion of Regime Agents The activities of Karim Haqi, Shams Haeri, Massoud Jabani, and Habib Khorrami, in the guise of refugees and opposition activists, against the true Iranian dissidents and political refugees, and the main opposition in the Netherlands, have provoked hatred among Iranian refugees. They have, on many occasions, complained about the spying activities of Karim Haqi to the French police. Last year, 150 Iranian political refugees wrote a letter to the Dutch Prime Minister requesting the expulsion of the MOIS agents and spies from the Netherlands. They wrote in their letter: Your Excellency Mr. Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands We, as Iranian refugees in the Netherlands, request from the Dutch government to expel the Iranian regimes spies from Dutch territory.

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 18

Recently, the regimes agents in the Netherlands have gathered personal information about political refugees and sent them to the Iranian regimes Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Subsequently, the MOIS began to contact our families in Iran, and through intimidation tactics and threats, it tried to make us return to Iran. We have left our country due to this regimes suppressive policies and are now considered Dutch citizens We have learnt that the Nejat association, which is linked to the mullahs infamous MOIS, resorted to sending greeting cards and books to us, by using our personal contact information it received from the regimes spies in the Netherlands. Therefore, we, the Iranian refugees in the Netherlands, cannot feel safe, and request that these well-known mullah agents be expelled immediately. Some of these agents include: 1. 2. 3. 4. Ahmad Shams Haeri Karim Haqi Moni Habib Khorrami Masoud Jabani

This letter is signed by 150 Iranian refugees residing in the Netherlands and is being sent to the Dutch Prime Minister. Iranians residing in the Netherlands, like millions of other Iranian refugees around the world, demand the expulsion of the mullah regimes agents from their places of residency. This is because the spying activities of these agents under the direction of the regimes embassies and MOIS, leads to the endangerment of the lives of Iranian refugees. In response to the political refugees representative, the director of the Middle East and North Africa desk at the Dutch Foreign Ministry confirmed the receipt of their letter about the spying activities of the regimes agents in the Netherlands, and stressed that the letter had been handed over to responsible authorities. I received your letter to the Dutch Foreign Minister on behalf of 150 Iranian refugees residing in the Netherlands, through which you expressed concern about the Iranian regimes intelligence services, and as you said, the regimes spying activities in the Netherlands. I have submitted your letter to the relevant officials. Sincerely, Director of the Middle East and North Africa desk

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 19

European Union Council of Ministers on April 29, 1997 stressed on the cooperation among European governments to guarantee that no visas are issued to Iranians with intelligence and security missions, and called on all member states to adopt coordinated measures for deporting and preventing MOIS personnel to enter European countries.

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 20

Attachment 1 Lord Corbetts Statement about the mullahs MOIS Activities

Lord Corbett of Castle Vale

HOUSE OF LORDS London SW1A 0PW

25 September 2006

Dear Colleague
It is no surprise that the fundamentalist regime in Iran spends a deal of time and money trying to discredit and demonise their main opponents the coalition NCRI and its member the PMOI. I know that MPs and Peers have been sent literature from organisations describing themselves as NGOs or human rights organisations seeking to discredit the PMOI. These include:

NEJAT Society Iran-Interlink PEYVAND AAWA Association Iran Didban

The most active of these is Iran-Interlink run by husband and wife team Masoud and Anne Khodabandeh (Anne Singleton) in Leeds. They never mention the appalling state of human rights and their allegations are merely a rehash of those made by the regimes Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Anne Singleton regularly travels to Iran as set out in a witness statement filed in the courts here in November 2002 by Ebraham Khodabandeh her brother in law. He gave details of his brothers co-operation with MOIS including trips to Tehran and East Asia for face-to-face briefings. Their front organisation also carry out harassment campaigns against MPs and Peers who support the efforts of the resistance to bring democracy and respect for human rights to Iran. The mullahs have a sophisticated and well-financed operation against the resistance. A useful summary of these misinformation campaigns is the Mission Report produced by a delegation from the European Parliament who visit Camp Ashraf in Iraq in July 2005. If you have not seen this I would be happy to send you a copy. It is of course for you to decide whether to respond to the mullahs letters but you may wish to tell them to take you off their mailing list. Sincerely

Lord Corbett of Castle Vale Chairman British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 21

Attachment 2 Dutch Security Services Issue Warning to Karim Haqi

Peyvand Publication of Political-Cultural Association of Peyvand ... On February 1, 2000, around 16:30, an agent of the Dutch secret police went to the residence of Haqi in the township of Elst. Subsequent to reading a list of names, the secret police said: All of you are in contact with the Iranian regime and have set up a major network. We have plenty of information that you are in contact of the Iranian regime and the Iranian regime pays for your publication. 1. AbolHassan Bani Sadr 2. Alireza Nourizadeh 3. Bahman Niroumand 4. Nasser Khajeh Nouri 5. Parviz Yaghoubi

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi 6. Mehdi Khanbaba Tehrani 7- Mehdi Khoshal 8- Asghar Borzou (Sweden) 9- Bahman Rastgou ( the Netherlands) 10-Jafar Baghal-Nejad (Norway) 11- Hassan Khalaj ( Norway) 12- Abed Haj-Esmail ( Great Britain) 13- Hadi Shams Haeri (the Netherlands) 14- Ghassem (Mohammad Towfiq Assadi, the Netherlands) 15- Hassan Alijani (the U.S.) 16- Karim Haqi Moni (the Netherlands) 17- Ms. Nadereh Afshari ( Germany)

- 22

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 23

Attachment 3 Statement Issued by European parliamentary committee Friends of a Free Iran about MOIS Activities

29.11.2006Dear
colleagues I have come across as you might have been with a well-orchestrated propaganda and disinformation campaign by the Iranian regime primarily aimed at tarnishing the image of the main Iranian resistance movement the National Council of Resistance of Iran and its affiliated organizations such as the People's Mojahedin (PMOI). This campaign inevitably reminds me of what Hitler's propaganda minister Josef Goebbles said once "Tell a lie that is big enough and repeat it often enough and the whole world will believe it." Once my efforts on behalf of the resistance movement became public I began to receive dozens of dubious letters from unknown individuals who claimed to be opposed to the regime but also criticized the Mojahedin. It did not work. The next stage was somehow more sophisticated. This time it was not the Iranian regime or unknown individuals but people who claimed to be former members of the organization whose aim was to put it bluntly justifying the crimes committed by the terrorist regime ruling Iran. I also received some very slick booklets that had the appearance of being published by genuine cultural associations. But after reading through them I could easily discern that the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) was hiding behind all the glossy pages. I have gone through all the allegations such as "terrorism" "attacking civilians" "imprisonment of dissidents" "cult-like behavior" and a great deal more. I have seen no merit in these allegations. This propaganda campaign is not lost to European security services either. German Security Service the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) wrote in its annual 2005 report "Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has several opposition groups under surveillance in Europe. Particularly the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) are the focus of MOIS's attention. For collecting information and spying activities Iran's intelligence service (MOIS) uses a network of agents who have defected from these organizations. The agents are invited to travel to Iran for briefings." In an earlier report in 1999 BfV wrote that the Iranian Resistance "continued to be the focus of the intelligence interest of the Iranian intelligence service In its fight against the Iranian opposition-in-exile VEVAK [MOIS] makes use of socalled "cultural associations". These are cover organizations founded as directed by VEVAK and acting in accordance with Iran's interests and wishes. In addition the Iranian service initiates anti-MEK [PMOI] publications which in part are published by former MEK activists and have the aim of persuading the readers of these publications to turn their backs upon this organization."

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 24

The Dutch Security Service AIVD also wrote "The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence tries to gather information on the Mojahedin through its members and ex-members as much as possible. Intelligence Ministry officers are instructed to spread negative information against the People's Mojahedin Organization (and its members)." Against this backdrop I would like to briefly unmask one of the most notorious of these agents who are the ringleaders of the MOIS campaign of demonizing the resistance. Karim Haqi Karim Haqi has been collaborating with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) since 1995. In the spring of 1995 four years after having no contact with the PMOI he claimed that he had been imprisoned and tortured by the PMOI in Iraq and began to churn out a variety of allegations. In late 1996 Haqi and a number of MOIS operatives went to see the United Nations Human Rights Commission's Special Representative Prof. Maurice Danby Copithorne in Geneva and claimed that they had been imprisoned and tortured by the PMOI. They unsuccessfully tried to convince him to devote part of his report to the violations of human rights by the PMOI. Haqi operates out of an outfit called "Payvand". His extensive contacts with the MOIS even drew attention from the Dutch internal security service. They interrogated him on several occasions and warned him about his contacts with and receiving money from the MOIS. Haqi describes one such encounter in his publication Peyvand : "On Tuesday 1 February 2000 around 4:30 pm a Dutch undercover security agent came to my residence in the Elst Township After reading a list of names the agent added: 'All of you have ties with the Iranian regime and have formed a large network' He added: 'We have sufficient information that you have ties with the [Iranian] regime and it [the regime] pays for your publication It would suit you better to stop this kind of work and go after your normal business and think about the future of your children' ." Other well-known operatives of the MOIS in Europe are Massoud Khodabandeh who along with his British wife Anne Singleton runs a website called Iran-Interlink Hadi Shams Haeri Jaafar Baghal-Nejad Behzad Alishahi Nowrouz-Ali Rezvani Massoud Tayebi and Jamshid Tahmasbi. As for the specific allegations of Mojahedin mistreating their "disaffected" members I and another colleague in the European Parliament Andr Brie from Germany went to Camp Ashraf accompanied by a British lawyer Azadeh Zabeti in summer of 2005. We investigated all of the allegations in this regard which were also raised in a report by Human Rights Watch. We found absolutely no truth in those allegations. We published the results of our thorough investigation in a book entitled "The Iranian Mojahedin: Mission Report." http://www.paulocasaca.net/PMOI-EN/index.htm Sincerely

Paulo Casaca MEP Co-Chair Friends of a Free Iran European Parliament Brussels

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 25

Attachment 4 LEcho Journal Story on the MOIS Agents Gathering in Auvers sur-Oise

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 26

Attachment 5 Statement Issued by the Paris Bar Association

COMMUNIQUE Des Avocats des Membres et Sympathisants du CNRI Les Avocats des membres du CNRI, depuis presque deux ans, nont cess de rappeler que les charges soidisant recueillies contre leurs clients taient inexistantes, et que la procdure initie avec vacarme le 17 juin 2003, tait le rsultat direct des pressions du Gouvernement iranien. Tout est fait pour maintenir un contrle judiciaire le plus longtemps possible, des membres du CNRI, y compris en laissant entendre rcemment que la nouvelle frontire des Magistrats Instructeurs serait un chimrique dossier de blanchiment . Les pressions du rgime Iranien sur les opposants sont historiquement connues en Europe. Les mthodes utilises pour les infiltrer et les disqualifier, la prparation dactes de terrorisme par les services secrets iraniens ont t dcrites par les services de renseignements allemands en 1997, 2000 et 2002 et les services secrets nerlandais en 1998, 2000. Aujourdhui, 1er avril 2005, dinformations concordantes et recoupes, il semble que des agents des services secrets iraniens aient dcid dtre prsents dans la zone dAuvers-sur-Oise pour y mener des actions inconnues mais dont lobjectif ne peut tre que de discrditer le CNRI, voire de donner de la consistance la criminalisation dont ils sont artificiellement lobjet. Les Avocats des Membres du CNRI sinterrogent sur le niveau de relations actuelles, notamment loccasion de cette opration entre les services secrets iraniens et la DST. Ils mettent en garde les autorits franaises sur toutes formes de complaisance qui pourraient conduire favoriser des comportements dont le seul objet est de tenter de crer, par la provocation, des troubles lordre public. Les Avocats des Membres du CNRI rappellent que ce sont ces mmes services secrets iraniens qui recrutent des anciens membres de lorganisation pour les transformer en tmoins providentiels pour les Magistrats Instructeurs. Les mmes Avocats soulignent que simultanment, les autorits denqute semblent faire preuve dun activisme extraordinaire, pour tenter de donner de la consistance aux accusations de blanchiment , alors que, simultanment, se multiplient des initiatives de toutes parts, pour installer artificiellement des soidisant parties civiles dans le dossier de la procdure. Tous ces faits interviennent la veille du voyage de Monsieur KHATAMI, Prsident de la Rpublique Islamique dIran, et alors que les tentatives du rgime iranien pour se doter de larme nuclaire sont au cur de ces manuvres diplomatiques. Matre Henri LECLERC, Matre William BOURDON, Matre Patrick BAUDOUIN Matre Bernard DARTEVELLE Matre Franois SERRES, Matre Marie-Laure BARRE, Matre Delphine MOUKARZEL, Avocats au Barreau de Paris.

The Iranian Regimes Agents in the Netherlands: Karim Haqi

- 27

Attachment 6 MOIS Agents Demonstration in Paris

Karim Haqi with a number of MOIS agents in the peace demonstration supporting the mullahs, attended by 11 agents at the Trocadero Square in Paris

Karim Haqi among other MOIS agents in the town of Auvers Sur-Oise, France. Right to left: Alain Chevalerias, a French agent; Massoud Khodabandeh from Britain; Jabani from the Netherlands; Karim Haqi from the Netherlands; Ali-Akbar Rastgou from Germany.