[Mb-civic] FW: Iran ¹ s intelligence agents enter U.S. capital - report Monday, 24th October 2

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Iran¹s  intelligence agents enter U.S. capital - report  Monday, 24th
October  2005
 
 Iran  Focus

Washington, DC, Oct. 24 ­ Agents of Iran¹s  notorious Ministry of
Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have  entered United States soil and are
planning to hold a  conference to spread ³disinformation² and ³sow the seeds
of  terrorism within the American homeland², a leading Iran policy  group
announced in a statement on Monday.

The  Washington-based Iran Policy Committee (IPC) said that the  panel was
³a disinformation ploy mounted by the new president  of Iran, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, who is mobilizing Iranian  intelligence services in a
world-wide series of probes against  the United States².

"Just as Ahmadinejad's  intelligence activities came before insurgent
attacks in Iraq,  so Iranian intelligence actions in the United States may
signal terrorist attacks on the American homeland", the  group¹s executive
director, Clare Lopez, warned.

The  IPC introduced Karim Haqi (a.k.a. Karim Haggi Moni) as one  such
veteran MOIS agent, who was heading to the U.S. capital  from the
Netherlands.

Separately, the Iranian  opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran
(NCRI)  issued a statement condemning the ³MOIS ploy², which it said  was
organised by intelligence agents posing as former members  and officials of
the opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK).  The NCRI said that Haqi had
been ³used by the regime for  espionage and terrorist schemes as well as
disseminating false  information against the Iranian opposition in the past
10  years².

³Haqi is supported and financed by the MOIS  directly from Tehran and is in
contact with other MOIS agents  in Europe. In order to keep these contacts
secret, he met with  MOIS officials in East Asia, including Singapore², it
said,  adding that Haqi had on several occasions been interrogated  and
warned by Dutch police for his contacts and collaboration  as well as
receiving money from the MOIS.

The IPC  introduced two other ³MOIS agents² taking part in Monday¹s
conference as Amir-Hossein Kord Rostami and Mahrokh (Parvin)  Haji, both
from Canada. Haji, according to the group,  ³maintains active links with a
network of agents in Canada and  Europe. The Pars-Iran association, which is
the organizer of  the October 24, 2005 press conference in Washington, is a
front for Iranian intelligence in Canada².

Rostami,  another Iranian intelligence agent in Ottawa, was officially a
member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IGRC)  near the Caspian
Sea since 1979, it said.

In the summer  of 1981, Rostami took part in search-and-arrest operations
against the MeK and their supporters in the town of Gorgan,  northern Iran,
the NCRI said, adding that in 1986, the MOIS  assigned him to infiltrate the
ranks of the MeK, though his  identity was soon discovered leading to his
expulsion. Rostami  was also in charge of the Iranian embassy's ³Fatemeh
Cultural  Centre² library in Canada for some time.

In its  statement, the NCRI urged U.S. authorities not to allow ³the
Godfather of terrorism and the most active state sponsor of  terrorism² to
turn U.S. territory into a ³centre for its  activities against Iranian
exiles and dissidents².

The  IPC said that the Department of Homeland Security's U.S.  Citizenship
and Immigration Services should block entry of  additional Iranian agents
onto U.S. soil, and called on the  Department of State to revoke visas and
expel the ³three  Iranian intelligence agents - Karim Haqi, Mahrukh (Parvin)
Haji, and Amir-Hossein Kord Rostami².

It also suggested  that the FBI assign additional agents to monitor
activities of  Iran's intelligence officials on American soil, with a view
towards eliminating their presence.

Bruce McColm,  co-Chair of the IPC stated, "As part of a global campaign,
Ahmadinejad accelerated attacks against Iranian dissidents  abroad.
Traditionally, intelligence operations by Iran's  Ministry of Intelligence
and Security preceded assassination  attempts by its  agents².



This  article comes from Iran Focus
http://www.iranfocus.com <http://www.iranfocus.com/>

The  URL for this story is:
http://www.iranfocus.com/article.php?storyid=4119
<http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4119>


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