The Iranian Regime’s Agents in Sweden: Mitra Youssefi
The Iranian Refugees Association in Stockholm
Autumn 2007
Born in 1951 in Iran, Mitra Youssefi is an agent of the mullahs’
Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) in Sweden. After the Persian Gulf War
in 1991, Youssefi could not tolerate the hard circumstances of continuing the
struggle with the mullahs, and consequently announced her defection. She went
to Norrköping in Sweden.
There, she established contact with the Iranian regime’s embassy and fell into
the mullah MOIS’s trap. One year after coming into contact with the regime’s
embassy in Sweden, Youssefi
traveled to Iran
and established direct contact with the MOIS. She was used for the MOIS plots
against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and the Iranian
Resistance both inside and outside of Iran.
and performed MOIS-assigned tasks
against the Iranian Resistance in Iran and abroad.
The MOIS-Funded Demonizing Campaign against the
Iranian Resistance
Mitra Youssefi has visited Iran on a
number of occasions. Her main responsibility outside of Iran is to
perform various MOIS assignments against the Iranian Resistance. She has, on
numerous occasions, traveled to different countries such as France and Greece to demonize the Iranian
Resistance. The travels have been wholly funded by the MOIS, and have been
repeatedly criticized by political activists and other Iranians.
Youssefi’s former spouse, Hassan
Nayeb-Agha, was a soccer player for Iran’s
national team during the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
and also the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
At a European parliamentary meeting in Brussels
(in December 6, 2005), Nayeb-Agha gave the following testimony with regards to Youssefi’s
services to the mullahs as well as the MOIS’s plots against him and other
Iranian athletes:
“… In 1991, my former wife Mitra Youssefi defected from the
Iranian Resistance and took residence in Sweden. It was at that time that
the MOIS’s activities against me outside of Iran began. The regime’s agents
eventually succeeded in taking my former wife to the regime’s embassy in Sweden. Taking
advantage of her family issues, they took her to Iran. Unfortunately, in Iran, too, Ms. Youssefi
met with MOIS officials. One of my former friends, who is a member of the
Iranian national soccer team, had seen Ms. Mitra Youssefi in Tehran’s Mehrabad
airport accompanied by one of the regime’s MOIS officials.
When she left Iran,
the MOIS used her against me and my activities in the Iranian Resistance.
Taking advantage of my well-known identity, both in Iran and internationally, they have
published numerous letters and stories about myself and the Iranian Resistance.
Such a misuse of my name and fame against the Iranian Resistance is completely
against my will and personal and political intentions. It has caused many
personal and psychological hardships for me.
In October 2005 I traveled to Greece to attend a concert in
solidarity with the Iranian Resistance. There, I met with a number of political
and cultural figures and artists to discuss the Iranian regime’s human rights
violations, its policy of exporting fundamentalism and terrorism, and Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad’s government. A few days after my return to France, the Iranian
regime sent Mitra Youssefi to Greece to meet with the same people I had talked
to there, in order to spread false accusations as my wife. For instance, she
said, “the PMOI has forced my husband to stay with them. They have imprisoned
him and will not let him see his family.” This disgraceful lie was uttered when
just a few days before I had met with those very Greek personalities and they
knew me. As a result, it produced nothing but political humiliation for the
regime and its agents. But such an act bears enormous psychological torment for
me, and damages my social reputation.
Among other shameful and aggravating MOIS acts against me, are its
contacts with former Iranian athletes and my friends … posing as my wife, and
spreading lies against the Iranian Resistance.
As such, the Ahmadinejad government’s MOIS has extended its
demonizing campaign against the Iranian Resistance to my personal life, and has
victimized me in a campaign that is utterly false and shameful.
Mitra Youssefi went to Iran in 2004 as well. She came back
to Sweden
with more guidelines and assignments. She is now completely at the service of
the mullahs’ regime. The MOIS takes her to Greece,
France,
or other places regularly so that she could spread her accusations against the
Iranian Resistance, or appallingly praise the mullahs’ sense of nationalism in
various MOIS websites. It is also necessary at this point to refer to the
psychological torture this individual has caused for my children. I never
wanted my children, who had been forced to take refuge abroad like millions of
other Iranians due to the mullahs’ unending crimes, to suffer more than they
already had. I always tried to keep them away from being exposed to the MOIS
plots. But, before they were grown up and independent, Mitra Youssefi, in the
style of the mullahs, used to take my children to different places against
their will, and used them as tools of the criminal mullahs. She changed my
daughter’s surname to Youssefi from Nayeb-Agha, and took her to Iran under the
rule of the mullahs. But, my son refused to go.”
More recently, she had gone to a member
of the Danish parliament to change his mind about supporting the Iranian
Resistance and convince him to support the mullahs’ regime instead. At the
beginning of the meeting, she introduced herself as a political refugee. But,
in an attempt to impress the Norwegian MP, Youssefi showed him documents
regarding her meetings with other MPs in various countries. The Norwegian MP
then asked her, “Madame, as a political refugee, how do you manage to pay for
all these travels?” Unable to reply, Youssefi merely said, “That is my own
business.”
The activities of Youssefi and other
MOIS agents generate the main material for the mullahs’ propaganda outlets for
demonizing the Iranian Resistance. For example, the state-run daily, Jomhouri-e
Eslami wrote the following story:
“22 Years of French
Government Support for the Terrorist Activities of the Monafeqin According to
the Grouplet’s Defectors”
“During a press conference, former members of the Monafeqin
grouplet [regime’s euphemism for PMOI], who have recently traveled to France, discussed
the motivations and reasons for their defections from this grouplet.
Mitra Youssefi and Parvin Haji, two of the female defectors, spoke
of women’s problems, and mentioned that they had been beaten, humiliated, and
accused throughout their time” [with the PMOI].
Mitra Youssefi participates in many of
the MOIS programs and meetings against the Iranian Resistance in various
countries. The Iranian Resistance had organized a large human rights exhibition
on December 10, 2005, and on Human Rights Day, aiming to expose the Iranian
regime’s crimes and human rights violations in Iran. It was well received
especially by political figures and French human rights bodies, as well as
Iranian refugees. Youssefi, along with a number of other agents, were sent to
this exhibition, paid and briefed by the MOIS, in order to cause disruptions.
However, their plots were foiled due to the presence, awareness, and
involvement of the police and the exhibition hall’s managers.
Another one of Youssefi’s tasks is to
spread lies and rumors among Iranian families in Sweden in order to turn them away from
the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance, and incline them towards supporting the
mullahs’ regime. Using fabricated stories about the situation of Iranians and
their families, she visits other Iranians and foreign political personalities
to demonize the Iranian Resistance. An Iranian activist, Reza Armideh, who has
for years participated in activities exposing the mullahs’ crimes, revealed in
January 2007 a plot by the MOIS against the Iranian Resistance, which
shamefully used the illness of Armideh’s child as a tool. The plot’s main agent
was Mitra Youssefi. Reza Armideh explained the plot to the media as follows:
January 4, 2007
Reza Armideh:
The MOIS’s Shameful Lies about My Son’s Illness
Recently, the disgraced mullahs’ agent, Mitra Youssefi, claimed in
an MOIS website called “Iran
Ayandeh” that the PMOI had a role in causing my son Saeed’s illness. As a
father, I have been psychologically traumatized by this inhumane regime taking
advantage of my son’s sickness. The regime’s claims are completely false.
My son was born by caesarean with the umbilical cord tied around
his neck. The medical personnel were worried about the darkening of his face,
and so they kept him in the hospital with oxygen.
When Saeed was two months old, due to a disease, he coughed drops
of blood. Subsequent tests and medical investigations showed that the problem
lies with the infant’s ___ . Therefore, he was immediately taken for surgery,
and subsequently recovered.
After seven months of us taking residence in Sweden, we
realized that our child does not have a normal condition, and was diagnosed
with ____ . The doctors have two hypotheses for his condition:
One is that during birth, because of the umbilical cord tying
around his neck, some parts of the child’s brain were denied oxygen for a
little while. The other suggestion is that losing a lot of weight during a
short time and receiving antibiotics has led to his medical condition.
Therefore, one cannot associate the illness of my son with the
PMOI and consider them responsible for it, unless one resorts to lies,
deception, and cowardice.”
Mitra Youssefi tries to deny her links
to the MOIS, and instead identifies herself in the media as a “former PMOI
member,” or the “spouse” of a national athlete in the Iranian Resistance, in
order to levy accusations against the PMOI. The reason for her denial is the
degree of hatred towards the Iranian regime in Iran and abroad.
Given that the regime has been condemned
by the United Nations on numerous occasions for its systematic and brutal human
rights violations, and that it has executed more than 120,000 Iranians, and
given that public opinion in Western countries reject the regime’s deceptive
propaganda, the mullahs have no choice but to persist in their political and
propaganda war against the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance, which is the sole
democratic alternative and existential threat to the religious dictatorship’s
rule, by veiling their efforts and removing their fingerprints under the guise
of other names and identities. One of the mullahs’ tools to this end has always
been those who have defected from the Iranian Resistance and turned their back
to it, and instead begun to serve the regime and the MOIS.
Recruiting and using a number of
defectors or expelled individuals from the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance by
the MOIS in Western countries has been noted and investigated by security agencies
in many Western countries in the past. The extent of the MOIS activities is
such that despite of the conciliatory attitude of Western governments towards
the mullahs, German and Dutch intelligence reports in the past few years have
unveiled a small part of such MOIS activities.
The April 29, 1997 Council of Europe
resolution stresses “cooperation among the member states to guarantee that no
visas are granted to Iranians with intelligence and security related
assignments,” and invites all the member states to “coordinated action when it
comes to the expulsion of and blocking of Iranian intelligence and security
personnel’s entry into the EU member states.”
These considerations become all the more
important in the face of Ahmadinejad’s provocative attitude towards the
international community and the Iranian regime’s increasing terrorism against
its dissidents abroad. In the past years, noting the Council of Europe
resolution, Iranian political opponents of the regime in Sweden have
called for the expulsion of the mullahs’ agents from this country.
The Swedish
Association in Defence of Victims of Fundamentalism
December 10, 2005
In addition to
condemning the MOIS plots against Iranian refugees and especially Resistance
activists, the association of PMOI families in Sweden, calls on the Swedish
government to launch investigations against MOIS agents in Sweden, and prevent
the entry of other agents in the future. Since the increase of the regime’s
intelligence activities in Europe may lead to assigning pre-terrorist
intelligence gathering assignments, never has rejecting these individuals been
more urgent than today.
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