Iran's Supreme Security Council's new measures for Spying and act of Terrorism Against the PMOI/MEK

Iran's Minister of Intelligence, Mahmoud Alavi

While referring to the widespread protests in various cities in August, Hassan Rouhani, the President of the clerical regime, demonstrated his animosity against the PMOI and said on August 6: "There is nothing wrong with the people’s protests ... but it shouldn’t be like some people respond to a grouplet(’s requests).”

Subsequently, the regime’s Supreme Security Council, in an instruction to the Ministry of Intelligence, the terrorist Quds Force, the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence and other agencies involved in export of terrorism and fundamentalism, ordered them to take further measures to spy on the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance and to set the stage for terrorist acts.

1. The Ministry of Intelligence stations in various European countries were ordered to collect more information from movements and activities and to use more resources.
2. The Ministry of Intelligence and the Quds Force should examine the human, political and technical capabilities and potentials for terrorist acts in European countries, in particular Albania, through the use of non-Iranian mercenaries, such that these actions can be attributed to the "internal conflicts of the Mojahedin (PMOI)" or "natural incidents" and the regime would not be blamed for.
3. To justify the already disclosed terrorist plots and scandals in Albania and France (April and July 2018),  it is imperative to add to the dimensions of the psychological warfare and the demonization campaign accompanied by the massive influx of false information and the production of fake documentaries. In this regard, the Ministry of Intelligence and its agents and mercenaries abroad must cooperate with the cultural advisers of the regime in European countries, the overseas directorate of the State Radio and Television, the Islamic Propaganda Organization and other relevant organizations. The priority is to employ the hirelings and mercenaries of the regime, especially non-Iranian agents who can carry out their mission under the cover of journalism.
4. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Intelligence, and the Quds Force have been ordered to press upon European governments, especially Albania, to curtail the activities of the Iranian Resistance. This task should be done through friendly "governments and parties" in the region, Europe, and the Balkans, using political and economic relations.
5. The regime’s mercenaries and agents should be dispatched to Albania and used under the pretext of PMOI family members. The Ministry of Intelligence and the Quds Force are required to send their agents, with the help of some so-called non-governmental organizations, in groups under the pretext of the "Family members of the Mojahedin", with the same pattern of their actions in Ashraf and Liberty.

National Council of Resistance of Iran

Security and Antiterrorism Committee

New intelligence report reveals plot of IRGC mercenaries in Syria

The IRGC has amassed over 100,000 mercenaries from Lebanon, Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan according to the NCRI. (File Photo)

 A report by the Paris-based Iranian oppositionhas revealed that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards are amassing Afghan, Iraqi, Lebanese and Pakistani mercenaries in Syria to control a pivotal road between Iraq and Syria that reaches the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.

The report published on Wednesday by the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ) comes as the United States is reviewing the inclusion of the IRGC and associated militias on the US terrorism list.

The IRGC has been deploying its militias in Syria at numbers estimated to be more than 100,000 members. The foreign fighters are deployed as mercenaries in clear violation of international norms and laws, the report stated.

Afghan militia flights

The report shows that the IRGC conducts weekly flights from Tehran via Mahan Air and Iran Air to Damascus to transport roughly 2,000 Afghan mercenaries every Tuesday.

The men are registered as volunteers and are recruited from among Afghan refugees in exchange for money and grants.

The report also states that the fighters are presented with identification cards upon their arrival in Damascus and then transferred to the Shibani camp west of the capital to receive their assignments.

Furthermore, mercenaries who have not received training in Iran undergo a training course in this camp. 

Iraqi brigades in Deir el-Zor 

The report shows that an Iraqi group in Syria, called the Imam Ali Brigades, underwent a training course for several months at a secret IRGC center on the outskirts of Tehran. “Part of the forces of this group are in the Deir el-Zor area, and their commander is Muhammad al-Bawi called Abu Abed” the report stated.

According to the NCRI in the past months, the IRGC has focused its forces on occupying the ground route between Iraq and Syria. “To this end, the commanders of the Revolutionary Guards have control over the command of the militias on both sides of the border, they want to gain control over about 400 kilometers of that border strip,” the report read. 

Ground operations

Ground operations command in Syria is controlled by the IRGC according to the Intel report which added that the country has been divided into several operational fronts.

Each front has a command post, details of which were disclosed by the Iranian Resistance in July 2016. Javad Qorbani, an IRGC commander, in an interview with the state-run Jam-e-Jam newspaper on January 21, 2017, revealed the existence of three garrisons in Syria, including the garrisons of Roqiyah in Aleppo (northern front), the Nabi between Aleppo and Damascus (central front) and Zeinab towards Deraa (southern front).

Javad Qorbani, a commander of Zeinab garrison, said: “At this garrison, we are fighting at 29 points at the same time, meaning we have 29 front lines” the report stated.