Iran regime's disinformation campaign against PMOI: Mullahs conspire against Iranian asylum seekers

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
Friday, 25 August 2006

NCRI - The mullahs’ regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) churned out an entirely baseless report, claiming, “Four dissatisfied members of the Mojahedin managed to take advantage of the circumstances and flee Camp Ashraf to Turkey.” The mullahs’ notorious Intelligence Ministry also claimed that the four people escaped “in the lead up to the Mojahedin’s annual meetings in Camp Ashraf”. Websites affiliated to the MOIS wrote in this regard, “On August 14, four members of the Mojahedin called Salim Ghafouri, Mohsen Shahmoradi, Alireza Kayghobadi and Fatimeh Javadi illegally fled Iraq and entered Turkey. But, they were arrested there. Following coordination between the Turkish Interior Ministry and the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Ankara, on August 21, all four were handed over to the Iranian regime.”

In this respect, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran announced that no individuals by these names have ever been among its members, and the claim made by the notorious MOIS about such people fleeing Ashraf is completely fake and fabricated. It is possible that the regime and its operatives deliberately attempted to link asylum seekers with these names to the PMOI in order to torture or murder them.

The Iranian Resistance strongly condemns any form of extradition of Iranian asylum seekers and refugees as a shameful crime against humanity and a blatant violation of the United Nations charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It highlights the case of Mr. Hojjat Zamani, a PMOI member, who managed to flee the regime’s torture chambers and secretly travel to Turkey in August 2003 but was arrested by Turkish officials in cooperation with the Iranian regime’s security services and extradited to Iran. In February 2006, he was hanged in a torture center in Gohar-Dasht Prison in the city of Karaj.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 25, 2006