In recent days, the
Cumhuriyet [Republic] and Daily Sabah newspapers in Turkey reported the
arrest of 13 people involved in the murder and kidnapping of opponents
of the theocratic regime of Iran in Turkey. These men were members of an
Iranian spy network in Istanbul and were detained by Turkey’s security
agency, the Daily Sabah wrote. Turkey’s state broadcaster T.R.T. also
reported about the operations of the Turkish intelligence agency against
the gang of Naji Sharif Zindashti, a drug lord and IRGC intelligence
mercenary. According to the same reports, the gang abducted Habib Asiud
from Istanbul in its latest operation and arranged his transfer to Iran.
Asiud, who has been living as an immigrant in Sweden for 14 years,
disappeared after arriving in Turkey. According to the same reports,
evidence suggests that Asiud was tricked and trapped by Zindashti, who
works for and is under the supervision of Iran’s intelligence apparatus,
in collaboration with a woman named Saberin [Saeedi]. Zindashti [had
been previously] arrested and sentenced to death in 2007 on drug
trafficking charges in Iran, but was [bizarrely] released from prison
and left for Turkey for reasons that were “unknown” at the time. The
Washington Post also reported on Zindashti’s role in the kidnapping and
murder of opponents of the Iranian regime in Turkey, including such
names as Massoud Molavi Verdanjani and Habib Asiud. Molavi Verdanjani
was shot and killed on 14 November 2019 in Istanbul’s Şişli
neighborhood. Prior to his death, [he had been involved in] the exposing
of the IRGC and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence [activities] in
cyberspace. Two Iranian diplomats were involved in the murder of Molavi
Verdanjani, Reuters news agency reported at the time. Molavi Verdanjani
was assassinated in Istanbul on 14 November 2019, and Saeed Karimian was
assassinated on the evening of 29 April 2017.
It was also reported
by the media in recent days that unknown individuals entered Arsalan
Rezaei’s house in Turkey, on Thursday 10 December 2020, and stabbed him
with a knife. He was hospitalised in a coma and died the following day.
The two assailants fled the scene without being identified or arrested.
The IRGC’s Telegram channel “@SEPAHCYBERY” published the news and wrote:
“A person named Arsalan Rezaei, who was the administrator of several
dissident, anti-Islam, and anti-religious sanctities pages on Instagram –
such as KhorafatKadeh [House of Superstitions] – was committing the
worst audacity against the Prophet and the Ahl-al-Bayt and smeared the
religion of Islam and the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Reuters news
agency also reported, on 28 November 2020, about the start of the trial
of an Iranian regime diplomat and three others in Antwerp, Belgium, for
plotting a bombing at a Mujahideen gathering in France in 2018. The
Belgian prosecutor accused Assadollah Asadi, a Vienna-based diplomat,
and three others of plotting an attack on a gathering of the Paris-based
National Council of Resistance of Iran. Asadi was the third consul at
the Iranian embassy in Vienna. French officials said that he was in
charge of intelligence [operations] in southern Europe at the behest of
the Tehran regime. Asadi had warned Belgian authorities in March to
await retaliation by unidentified groups if he were to be found guilty,
according to police documents obtained by Reuters. The Danish government
also unveiled the arrest of an Iranian regime intelligence agent in May
whose objective was to assassinate opponents of the Iranian regime in
Denmark. The Danish government prosecuted a 40-year-old
Iranian-Norwegian man for assisting Iran’s intelligence service in
planning an attack and murder, according to media reports. The local
Danish prosecutor, Ms. Liz Lottie, stated that the arrested man was
accused of following a man in Ringsted, [a town] 100 km outside of
Copenhagen, and filming the man’s wife, all of which were carried out on
the orders of the Iranian regime’s intelligence service.
The
prosecution and assassination of opponents of the Islamic Republic
abroad by the intelligence apparatus of the Islamic Republic is not a
new phenomenon. In the past years, the criminal murder of Dr. Qasemlu
and his comrades in Vienna while negotiating with the Islamic Republic’s
emissaries; the brutal assassination of Mr. Sharafkandi [Qasemlu’s
successor] and his comrades at the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin; and
numerous other murders ordered by the leaders of the theocratic regime
of Iran and executed by security apparatus and its professional
assassins all indicate that the criminal regime ruling our homeland, –
like other despotic and anti-people regimes in the region, such as the
Saudi government in its brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, or
Israel’s racist regime in its state assassinations – not only fails to
adhere to any international relations and standards, but is willing to
commit any crime to protect its interests.
It is noteworthy that
with the escalation of the internal crisis of the Iranian regime, the
weakening of the foundations of the ruling dictatorship, and the
revelation of the inhumane nature of the regime rulers; the regime’s
intelligence apparatus has also intensified its activities to eliminate
its opponents, whether at home or abroad.
Sobh-e Sadegh weekly, the
press organ of Khamenei’s deputy political representative to the
Revolutionary Guards, in its new issue wrote: “The operation to arrest
Zam by the IRGC could be considered one of the intelligence masterpieces
of the 40-year history of the Islamic Revolution.” The press
organisation of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps (IRGC), said that the most important reason for the kidnapping and
execution of Ruhollah Zam was to prevent spreading news against the
regime’s officials and pillars, and to prevent the grounds for protests.
In particular, the publication referred to the news that Ruhollah Zam
had been publishing on the Telegram channel AamadNews about senior
officials of the Islamic Republic, including Ali Khamenei and his
office, and wrote that Zam “fabricated and produced shocking rumors
against the pillars of the country” without observing “any red lines”
and in a short time “was able to become the main platform of the
counter-revolutionary media front, and inflicted a lot of damages on the
country and the nation.”
The executions of the participants in the
November 2019 protests; the execution of Navid Afkari; the execution of
Zam; and in recent days the execution of two Baluch prisoners, are among
the latest examples [from a long list] of crimes committed by the
anti-human regime in our homeland. Condemning this wave of
assassinations and executions of dissidents and the expansion of the
regime’s intelligence activities abroad, the Tudeh Party of Iran calls
on all progressive forces in Iran and [around] the world to make a joint
effort to mobilise the world’s public opinion against this new wave of
repression and assassination of dissidents. By exposing the regime’s
agents and cohorts, the operation of the regime’s security apparatus
abroad could be challenged and made fraught/untenable.
From Nameh Mardom, the Central Organ of the Tudeh Party of Iran, No. 1119, 21st December 2020
Πηγή:
The Tudeh Party of Iran: Warning about the intensification and expansion of the security operations of the Iranian regime’s intelligence services abroad
