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Ustwo · 04-05-2008, 11:49 AM

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Jafarzadeh, NCRI and the Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS)

Alireza Jafarzadeh, has been particularly singled out and targeted by Iran's government for his unique historical role in revealing Iran's attempts to obtain nuclear and biological weapons of mass destruction. Numerous web sites associated with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security have launched a coordinated smearing attack and false information propagation against him. According to the interrogation records of several Iranian spies arrested in Europe, as revealed by Holland's Interior Security Service,[9] "Iranian intelligence "distributes negative information" on dissidents", including Jafarzadeh, "and "strives to portray a Satanic view" of them." This operation is funded at tens of millions of dollars per year and is considered vital to Iran's Intelligence Ministry. As part of this operation, ex-members of dissident groups who have been turned by Iranian intelligence write diatribes against exile groups. As well as using threats and intimidation to turn espionage targets, bribes are also employed.

In reference to the Iranian Government activities against Alireza Jafarzadeh and other prominent dissidents of the Iranian regime living in the United States, one Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security spy revealed details of his operations in an affidavit he submitted to the US courts.[9] Jamshid Tafrishi said: "I pretended that I was an opponent of the Iranian regime, while I was in fact advancing the assignments given by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry." He says he "actively participated in the Iranian regime conspiracy" to blacken the names of exiles. This included relaying false information to foreign governments, including claims that dissidents had the support of Saddam Hussein.

Clare Lopez, a high-ranking CIA officer of 20 years standing and now a senior adviser to the Iran Policy Committee, a Washington-based think-tank which advocates democracy in Iran, says: "The Iranian regime deploys its intelligence agents and assets in a very sophisticated campaign to infiltrate and influence Western academia, media, non-governmental organizations and policy-making structures. "They make extensive use of the internet and fund or manage dozens of online websites. The MOIS are masters of disinformation, denial and deception - all crafted to lull the international community into acceptance of the terrorist regime in Tehran, compel us to abandon any serious punitive action at the UN Security Council over their nuclear weapons program, and smear the reputation of Iranian dissidents and exiles who oppose the clerical clique that rules Iran today".[9]

The conservative daily newspaper in Iran revealed in 1999[6] that Jafarzadeh's name has been in the hit list of Saeed Emami the deputy minister of intelligence (under Ali Fallahian), and an intelligence officer under Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, who was charged with assassinations of dissidents inside and outside Iran.

As a result, Jafarzadeh's association with the National Council of Resistance of Iran in which one of the main member organizations is Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) has been a source of controversy. Jafarzadeh was the public spokesperson for the National Council of Resistance of Iran until its office in Washington was closed by the US State Department on the grounds that it was too closely associated with Mujahedin-e Khalq, by then listed as a terrorist organistion.[10] It is broadly believed that inclusion of NCRI and MEK in the list was a token offered to the theocratic regime of Iran rather than based the facts of the matter. According to the Wall Street Journal:[11] "Senior diplomats in the Clinton administration say the MEK figured prominently as a bargaining chip in a bridge-building effort with Tehran." The Journal added that: In 1997, the State Department added the MEK to a list of global terrorist organizations as "a signal" of the U.S.'s desire for rapprochement with Tehran's reformists, says Martin Indyk, who at the time was assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs. President Khatami's government "considered it a pretty big deal," Mr. Indyk says.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alireza_Jafarzadeh

Hes either an excellent double agent, or a very good guy on our side.

Either way the OP is just a smear campaign against him and completely pointless.