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| Spy network targets enemies in Iranian immigrant community | |
| 2004-10-30 | |
Iran's clerical regime is resorting to shady tactics against its opponents in Denmark. Daily newspaper Information reported that Iranian refugees in the country have been subjected to extortion and pressure, presumably by agents from the Iranian Embassy in Copenhagen. Informants from the nation's Iranian émigré community have passed on information to agents that has in many cases had drastic consequences for family members in Iran.
Several Iranian refugees spoke with the newspaper for its report, including defected Iranian diplomat Perviz S. Khazai, who represents the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI) in Scandinavia. 'I believe the Iranian regime has 50-60 very active 'Gestapo' style agents in Scandinavia - predominantly embassy workers and refugees who forward information on other refugees. In Denmark alone, there are at least 5-10. I know one of them by name,' said Khazai. Chief inspector Hans Jørgen Bonnichsen of the Security Intelligence Service (PET) confirmed that refugees in Denmark are often subjected to espionage. 'I won't say anything on the extent to which Iranians are targets of espionage. It would damage our counterintelligence work if I said which exile groups we were focusing on,' said Bonnichsen, who has urged any Iranian refugees who feel they may have been targeted by spies to contact PET. | |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 I wrote here at Rantburg last summer how I got good, old fashioned drunk with two Iranians at an Irish pub in Chicago after the Manchester Utd soccer game. One was Iranian-American, the other Iranian-Swedish. Great guys, good sense of humor. Normal. This is why this stuff pisses me off. It's not enough the Mullahs ruin Iran but they have to chase down Iranians around the globe, too? Re-elect W and let's help clean out Iran from Islamist scum. |
| Posted by: JDB 2004-10-30 8:57:48 PM |
| #1 The Iranian intelligence service is also very Internet active. These "Ayatollah Bugs" not only try to monitor and supress Iranian dissent inside and outside of Iran, but now have begun to interfere with anti-Iranian government discussion threads to defend the Iranian government. This is not an easy task, as you might imagine, so they usually just say that "everything is fine in Iran" and post a few links (the same ones) from apologists in the western press. They Deja-Google USENET looking for any anti-Iranian government thread, if you would like to meet one, and I would not be surprised if one shows up here. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-10-30 10:49:06 AM |