17 Mordad 1388 [ 8 August 20091
The Complete Text of the Indictment of the Second Group of Accused
in the Velvet Coup Project
Lord, for that which you have favored me, I will never aid the criminals.” (al-Qasas: 17)
Honorable Head of branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran,
As you have been apprised, aifier the maximal presence of the God-loving and proud
people of Islamic Iran in the tenth presidential elections and their answering the appeal of
the Supreme Leader (May his lengthy shadow lengthen!) in renewing the covenant with
the aspirations of the late Imam (May God have mercy on him!) in the thirtieth year since
the Islamic Revolution's victory, which has conffirmed in the world a golden page in
religious democracy and an unprecedented record of the presence of the people, a
refractory current is trying to sow sedition and blacken this great source of pride and
undo society's order and security and upset public opinion and utilities opposition media
and opportunist individuals and have relationships with foreigners and use the capacities
of counter-revolutionary groups which have for years sought an opportunity to deal a
blow to our Islamic country's security and, through planning a conspiracy and a
deceptive scenario, claim fraud and falsiffication in the elections to try to turn one of the
Islamic Republic of Iran's political system's greatest sources of political pride into a
security battle and a propaganda weapon for a coup against the system.
During yesterday's session, in the ffirst introduction to the Tehran court's charges, the
indications that these riots had been planned in advance and the documents proving the
recent organized and planned crimes were presented to the court. During this session, the
planning, including planning by foreign countries opposed to the Islamic Republic of
Iran, with the intention of collapsing [ the system and staging a soifi coup in Iran and
intervening in the post-presidential election events [ andi operations by the counter-
revolutionary and terrorist grouplets and their role in the events aifier the elections and the
recent riots will be presented.
A) Planning by foreign countries opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran with the
intention of staging a soft coup in Iran and their intervention in the events aifier
the elections to the presidency.
The victory of the Islamic revolution and the threat to foreign imperialist interests
domestically and in the strategic region of the Persian Gulf has resulted in the rise of the
West's hostility against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and for just this reason and in
various periods, the execution of numerous political and intelligence plots to confront the
[ Islamic Republicani system were put on their agendas.
On the other hand, the diffculties of the West, led by America, in quagmires in Iraq and
Afghanistan and the Zionist regime's defeat in the 33 day war with Hezbollah and the 22
day war in Gaza reduced the likelihood and ability of using military force against the
Islamic Republic of Iran and for this very reason put the creation of a structural change in
the Islamic Republic of Iran's sacred system through new intelligence and secret and soifi
measures on the West's agenda. Along these lines, the issue of cyberspace, satellite
media, etc. were used by foreigners as effective and new tools to change opinions and,
according to the West's culture of espionage, changing opinions will in turn lay the basis
for changing behavior and, ultimately, changing the country's structure.
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Along these lines, the new policies of the West, particularly the United States and Britain,
to confront the Islamic Republic of Iran are based on three principles:
1) Democratization (democracy for Western aims and interests);
2) Keeping the [ Islamic Republicani system preoccupied domestically by creating
domestic insecurity and intensifying conflicts;
3) Reining in the Islamic Republic of Iran's regional power;
It has been conffirmed that in order to achieve these goals, utilizing the media, public
diplomacy, create populist organizations and networks and oppositional organizations
with the goal of inciting civil disobedience and rolling out a project of non-violent
struggle will play the most important roles and enormous budgets and new means of
communication have been set aside for this. On the other hand, Western spy agencies
were not negligent in taking advantage of all domestic opportunities and resources
aLorded by the opposition, which is considered to be their operational and executive
arms, and the above-mentioned groups, including the illegal group the Freedom
Movement, are playing the role of perpetuating insecurity and embroiling the system in
strife and playing the role of pawns and the enemy's ffiifih column.
Along the same lines, the Munaffiqin and Tundar grouplet and the separatist and ethnic
currents led and supported by foreigners, create political and ethnic diLerences and an
atmosphere of crisis, are hastening to implement anti-security programs during the days
of the presidential elections. An example of their aims and eLorts can be considered the
eLort to assassinate a candidate for the presidency and blame it on the system in order to
create an accusation against the system's authorities, spread diLerences, and create doubt
in various social layers.
Methods to destroy the Islamic Republic:
In order to advance these policies, the enemies of the system (of the sacred Islamic
Republic of Iran—comment in the original) put the planning, sketching, and execution
axes of the methods of destroying the Islamic Republic of Iran's in the hands of spy
agencies and dependent institutions, some of which are:
1) Propaganda about and spreading word of the necessity for political regime change;
2) International support from labor unions, craifismen, groups which so-called defended
human rights and civil organizations which opposed the Islamic Republic;
3) Actions for economic boycotts against the Islamic Republic of Iran;
4) Secret ffinancial support to oppositional forces in the system;
5) Identifying, attracting, and strengthening eLective centers and individuals and layers
in society such as women, youth, NOOs, etc., to achieve speciffic ends;
Noting the time table on the country's calendar for holding the 2009 presidential
elections, the program for executing the above ends [ sici through foreigners via
opportunists among the existing liberals for staging a soifi coup in the Islamic Republic of
Iran under the cover of public diplomacy and covert action entered the stage of execution.
Soifi coup and covert action:
A soifi coup which is disguised and is referred to as public diplomacy in order to make it
appear normal in public opinion has the following special qualities:
From the point of view of a Western intelligence institution:
Public diplomacy pursues the following goal: to protect our national security and
interests in other country's through knowledge, awareness, and influencing the people of
other countries and through a dialogue between our citizens and their foundations and
colleagues abroad.”
A soifi coup from the Western perspective is the same as imposing the values and
frameworks of thought which govern Western societies on other societies that they might
thereby automatically make the system of that country a target of influence and align it
with the ruling system's policies.
The goal of the West's public diplomacy is nations” and its course and ultimate aim is to
exert influence with the intent of easing policies conducive to covert operations and
overthrow. Along these lines, covert actions in the context of public diplomacy require
the employment of the most intricate aggressive psychological operational techniques.
1) Getting the government to take positions which they want by exerting popular
pressure;
2) Creating an atmosphere of distrust concerning the system's off cials and disrupting the
means of decision-making;
3) Distracting society's public opinion from the system's interests and principles and
spreading means the means it has in mind in society by sowing doubts in the system's
values;
4) Creating diLerences in various trends of society and dissension and division between
the people and the government by accusing the system's leaders and oLicials of lying;
5) [ Creating dissent in intellectual, ethnic, religious, etc. groups with the aim of
disrupting national unity;
In expressing the importance of this part of the secret measures, a Western countries'
foreign minister declared, At the present time, our eLorts in the fleld of public
diplomacy are much more important than other measures, so that these eLorts are
inseparable from our foreign policy faced with oppositional governments.”
The West's national security strategy aifier the collapse of the former Soviet Union has
been planned and rebuilt to conform to international developments. It has determined its
duties for those countries' various security establishments for the eLective execution of
this strategy and has compiled security-leadership reports on this matter.
A point worth noting in the agendas of these reports is the orientation of their measures
towards covert action and their negative view of military war and their proposing a soifi
war” or internal collapse” in the case of the Islamic Republic.
The policies planned against Iran speak to the West's strategy against the Islamic
Republic and within the framework of public diplomacy and the importance of utilizing it
is to such an extent that these reports might be named the West's Covert Action
Manifesto against the Islamic Republic.
One of the West's senior security offficials declared, in expressing the importance of
employing strategies known as public diplomacy against Iran, Iran, due to the vastness
of its territory, the quality of its population, the character of its human resources, its
military means, its abundant natural resources, and its distinguished geographical position
in the Middle East and the region's heartland has become an unparalleled power which
can no longer be overthrown by military attack.”
The important axes of the reports, which emphasize the necessity for using public
diplomacy tactics, speak of a program which the West's politicians have in mind as
public diplomacy against the Islamic Republic:
1) Exploiting internal diLerences within Iran;
2) Utilizing a soifi coup instead of military measures;
3) Inciting civil disobedience in university organizations and NGOs and trade
organizations as important tools to exert pressure on Iran;
4) The need to emphasize the presence of international supervision over the elections;
5) Demagogic support for human rights and democracy in Iran;
6) Setting in motion and strengthening numerous radio and television networks with the
intent of denigrating and deceiving the people;
7) Supporting the domestic opposition;
8) Easing the activating of NGOs aligned with the West;
9) Easing the granting of visas for people who are groomed by the West and support its
goals;
10) Inviting young Iranian activists with the intention of participating in seminars outside
the country to attract and tendentiously educate them as they did in countries like Serbia,
the Philippines, Indonesia, Chile, the Ukraine, etc.;
On the other hand, part of its security doctrines includes:
We will perhaps not be faced with a challenge from any country more serious than from
Iran. We have other concerns regarding Iran which are as important as the nuclear issue.
Our concerns will ultimately be solved when the Iranian government makes the
leadership decision to change is policies and open its political system and give its people
freedom. OEis is our ultimate aim. Our policy is to spread interaction with the people of
Iran. In order to do away with oppression and increase democracy, we will use all the
political, economic, diplomatic, and other tools at our disposal, including
. Exposing cases of violations of human rights;
. Supporting reformists through holding meetings in our State Government and
embassies;
. Assigning a budge to give ffinancial support to activities favored by the West in
Iran;
. Imposing boycotts with the aim of creating divisions between the people and the
government;
On the basis of the existing documentation, the project of a soifi coup or, as they call it,
public diplomacy, is on the agenda of Western politicians in various ways, depending on
the internal, regional, and international conditions of the Islamic Republic, the most
important of which are:
1) Helping and training NGOs and publishing Persian-language pamphlets on democratic
values and civil activities towards this end;
2) Training reporters to form news source networks towards the end of gathering
information and analysis;
3) Training and organizing human rights activists in Iran to present an unfavorable view
of it;
4) Creating websites and training for holding elections and presenting ff11 information's
on the 2009 electoral candidates;
5) Dispatching students, artists, and professions and training them to form a cadre for
sensitive key and appropriate posts in the future;
Following the founding of an Iranian Affairs Offce in Dubai (set up in the American
consulate) by the American State Department which was copied from the base in Riga,
Lithuania, during the Cold War era with the aim of collapsing the former Soviet Union,
this offce had on its agenda activities concerning attracting Iranian leaders and
influencing their ideas and impressions with the intention of encouraging them to act
against the Islamic Republic of Iran's national interests. Along these lines, the spokesman
for the then-Secretary of State declared,
OEe American government will collaborate with NGOs and Iranian media through its
embassies in the countries along the Persian Gulf and other countries neighboring Iran.
We will increase travel agencies between Iran and America and spend ffive million dollars
for visits of professors and teachers and other professionals from America.”
On this very basis, the Iranian Affairs Offce in Dubai, in the course of the past two years,
on the excuse of holding training sessions and sending numerous groups from various
layers to America, is hurrying to prepare the grounds needed to establish relations with
various social layers and society's leaders and the invitees travel to America without
enduring the usual stages of obtaining a visa with the aid of the official of the Offfice of
Iranian Affairs in the American consulate in Dubai (Messrs. Jillian Barns, Ramin Asgard,
Timothy Richardson) to deliberately influence them and, aifier returning, as someone in
charge of forming new groups and send them to America.
The defeat of America's plans against Iran which occurred with the arrest of some of
their domestic agents, convinced the Americans to execute a new plan and idea, titled
Project Exchange. In its framework, the sending of individuals and groups to America
was initiated through the expenditure of vast sums through bases they had created against
Iran (in Dubai, Istanbul, Baku, London, and Frankfurt).
The stages of America's measures within the framework of American public diplomacy
in Iran are composed of
1) Executing the Soros Foundation's regional initiative.
2) Project Exchange.
3) Bilateral exchange.
In this project, the travel of individuals and leaders from various levels of society in
groups of ffiifieen to various states in America were planned. All the stages of obtaining
visas, their expenses (airfare, hotels, visits, and purchases, the program for their presence
in America, etc.) was executed under the leadership and management and planning of this
country's State Department and under the cover of foundations such as the Meridian,
Peace, Aspen, etc. (Let it be noted that this project remained unsuccessful due to the blow
which the Ministry of Intelligence inflicted on its agents in 2008.)
Among the desirable characteristics indicated for these individuals to be considered was
their youth, certainty that they would return to Iran, higher education, relations with
government institutions and centers, a lack of a bad political record, etc.
America's political and intelligence Project Exchange were:
1) OEe establishment of relations with diLerent groups of society and the creation of
eLective relationships with specialists;
2) A change of perspective and point of view of the participants towards America;
3) A change of perspective in Iranian society with the goal of the necessity of the Iranian
government's establishing relations with America through pressure from below;
4) Obtaining analyses and viewpoints of the participants in Project Exchange;
5) Influence in social layers and planning towards reviving America's lost interests in
Iran;
6) Pressure on the government to change its behavior;
7) Weakening the government's bases and weakening and ultimately collapsing the
system;
8) Making America out to be Iran's only savior;
9) Intensifying the division between the nation and the government;
10) Disturbing the country's decision-making system;
11) Creating currents and exerting influence in the guise of protest meetings and
assemblies;
12) Abusing society's elite for security purposes;
13) Inciting ethnic movements;
14) Desired legal changes in accordance with Western legal systems;
15) Creating changes in the country's electoral system on the excuse of the need for
international oversight over the electoral arena.
In comparing the conditions governing Iran with those of countries like the Ukraine or
Georgia, the Western countries have found elections to be an appropriate venue for
advancing their corrupt ends and creating the changes they have in mind, and went to
implement their programs by utilizing human potential without direct foreign intervention
and pressure from outside and through non-violent methods of struggle and transforming
social demands to political ones and [ utilizing cyberspace and internet sites as the most
important tools and apparently legal components.
On the basis of results obtained from investigations made and the confessions of the
accused, the most important measures of the foreigners, and above all the Americans and
the British, towards activity against the Islamic Republic of Iran in this arena was based
on the following techniques:
1) Holding terms of education outside the country;
2) Activating internet sites and networks with the goal of spreading intelligence [ sici and
molding opinion based on approved-of goals and programs. (Along these lines, the
American State Department has entered chat rooms and weblogs by founding the Digital
Outreach Team and has directly established relations with the people and has taken
responsibility for a form of systematizing relations between the people of Iran and the
American government. Along these lines, American political circles have pursued a
policy of creating division between the government and the people of Iran and creating
similar tactics through relations with Iranian youth.);2
3) Activating satellite channels (particularly in Persian);
4) Choosing groups from various social layers (legal, medical, artistic, student,
professors, clergy, etc.) to sent to America and participate in programs of visits and
training;
5) Planning to change opinion and behavior with the aim of eLecting a change in the
sacred structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran;
6) Laying the basis for increasing [ feelings of] insecurity about the future and executive
programs in the country and strengthening tendencies perspectives towards America;
7) Activating European intelligence and research foundations for the establishment of
connections with people they have in mind and creating relations with domestic centers
under cover of institution-building;
8) Preparing educational stipends for people they have in mind and returning them aifier
making them intellectually receptive;
9) Activating Britain with the excuse of identifying and recruiting members of the
intelligence elite and setting in motion NGOs and sending desired people to enter the
country;
10) Holding journalistic training sessions in Holland and England;
11) Utilizing local staL towards establishing unoffcial relations;
12) Exchange of intelligence and cooperation with other spy agencies with the aim of
utilizing their intelligence and resources;
13) Instigating and guiding people with the intent of spreading the scope of protests;
Foreign intelligence operations in the tenth presidential elections:
1) Reviewing and studying the potential in the existing atmosphere in the country with
the aim of creating disturbances in relations between the people and the elite with the
Supreme Leader and the velayat-e faq/h;
2) ELorts towards diminishing popular support for the sacred system of the Islamic
Republic of Iran (domestically or abroad) and defeating the Islamic Republic of Iran's
perspective with the aim of preventing Iran from becoming a successful model for other
countries of the world;
3) Utilizing human potential with the intent of gaining goals they have in mind, such as
creating distrust and fanning the flames of popular protest, strengthening ethnic currents
and the domestic opposition, implementing democratizing projects in Iran with the aim of
changing opinions, behavior, and, ultimately, the system's structure;
4) ELorts towards exacerbating the divide between the people and the government,
exploiting internal diLerences and existing capacity in this fleld, particularly in circles
related to parties, political currents and offficials, and ethnic and religious diLerences;
5) Encouraging some Iranians living abroad to engage in activity against the Islamic
Republic of Iran and utilize propaganda from societies and their protests;
6) Organizing, leading, and providing material, political and media support for terrorist
groups and cooperation between the domestic and foreign opposition and discontented
social groups;
7) Preparing the basis for the implementation of a soifi coup project and the formation of
educational terms in various countries (such as the Emirates and Holland) under cover of
themes like human rights and non-violent struggle;
8) Creating and providing material and moral support to NOOs with the intent to create
currents in various social layers and to take advantage of their potential and resources
according to the dictates of the circumstances;
9) Activating projects to create domestic crisis (particularly in social circles) and
pursuing plans of pressure from without and change from within;
10) Focusing on psychological operations, spreading rumors, creating currents and
propaganda about the Islamic system's incompetence through Persian internet sites,
satellite channels, particularly the Voice of America and the BBC Persian service and
other [ sici fugitive, counter-revolutionary news channels, the monarchists, the Munaffiqin
and other means of networking;
11) Leading NOOs and currents opposing the system with the perspective of having
supervision led by the Americans over the electoral process;
12) Emphasizing the emergence of fraud and uncertainty concerning the soundness of
Iran's electoral process (about ten days before the votes were counted) and eLorts
towards raising this topic through sites related to the State Department. (Among the
issues are: cutting oL the sending of ballots, reducing internet speed, the emergence of
diffculties regarding the presence of candidates' supervisors in vote-counting posts, etc.).
It is necessary to explain that the oLicial of Mr. Musavi's offce's Committee for the
Preservation of Votes said that this was an indication that the elections were fraudulent
while discussing this matter a week before the elections. (15/3/88 = June 5, 2009);
13) Provocations and preparing the grounds for domestic violent movements and civil
disobedience and setting the stage for the appearance of street rioting and creating
insecurity and destruction and chaos;
14) ELorts towards creating accusations and psychological warfare against the Islamic
Republic of Iran, particularly in the matter of violating human rights, with the aim of
escalating the Islamic Republic of Iran's isolation in the international arena;
Some of the measures of the Western countries and their spy agencies which are
appropriate to the above-mentioned goals and which were implemented by embassies and
dependent media before the elections are as follows:
1) The British embassy's eLort to get closer to political parties in Iran, the ffirst contact of
which occurred in Azar 1387 [ November-December 20081 with one of the well-known
ffigures and it was announced to them that the embassy intends to establish relations with
some political parties of Iran and it was announced right there that we will search for
these parties aifier you. (OEis eLort was faced with defeat at that very stage through
intelligence's readiness.);
2) Towards the end of 1387 [ the end of the winter of 2008-20091, an 18-point agenda on
the elections in Iran was issued by the British government which, while apportioning the
work on the tenth presidential elections, concerned the role of various circles of the
system they were interested in and issued an agenda of news and intelligence-gathering;
3) Numerous travels by British diplomats to various cities of Iran, particularly Qom,
establishing contacts with some of the candidates' electoral offces in the provinces, the
active presence of British diplomats on election day in various centers, etc, which speaks
of general active eLorts of the embassies on the elections;
4) A widespread use of local staL by the British embassy in intelligence gathering on the
city level and political activists and social conditions. Along these lines, the use of local
staL with higher education (doctorates) and high political perspective and their use in
establishing relations with elements who have access to intelligence and obtaining their
specialized analyses along with their valuable intelligence during the elections. Some of
the embassy's eLorts were:
5) Widespread British intelligence activity in gathering intelligence on disturbances and
riots aifier the elections in such a way that they have practically constantly assigned their
local staL to be present in conflicts and pursue gathering [ intelligence while instructing
their local staLto be in contact with political parties and gather and report their analyses
and perspectives;
6) Relatively focused activity by the BBC Persian service on electoral aLairs in Iran in
the period leading up to the elections insinuating that they were not enthusiastic, they
were phony, a destructive focus on the government's foreign policy to destroy the
government's image, etc.;
7) Announcing that British diplomats expect unanticipated and bloody events;
8) Relations of the Cultural-Educational Council [ British Councifl (BC) with the social
framework with the intention of preparing relationships by granting scholarships, holding
language training, etc. By these means, the British tried to tour the Iranian government
and, in addition to identifying and pointing out individuals they had in mind, put the
minimum funds at the disposal of influential people at critical conditions; [ ?I
9) Identifying knowledgeable people by holding English classes (ILETS [ International
English Language Testing System ). Using this method, the British embassy would try to
identify influential people and prepare the way to exploiting them under critical
conditions;
10) Creating a VIP section in the visa division with the intent to exploit people who had
access in various circles of the country and getting close to them on the excuse of holding
private interviews;
11) The embassy's diplomatic measures for establishing relations with ethnic and cultural
leaders with the intent of identifying and attracting them to further desired goals;
12) OEe presence of embassy diplomats in various regions of the country under the cover
of students of the Persian language and establishing relations with the people of the
region;
13) Laying the basis for attracting political-cultural individuals in England to further
desired interests. (Ata'ollah Mohajerani);
14) Connections of British intelligence-research institutions with intelligence-research
institutions within Iran in order to exert influence (Chatham House and 1155);
15) Activating England as America and Israel's intelligence arm in order to compensate
for a lack of American and Israeli presence in Iran;
16) Establishing relations with some leaders, parties, and political ffigures with the intent
of gathering intelligence and preparing them to cooperate with the [ intelligence service
of that country;
17) Contacting proprietors of media and press with the intent of having an impact on
society;
18) Towards the end of Farvardin [ the beginning of Aprifl , a term of training was held in
Germany in the presence of ffive people from the center of representatives on the subject
of the rights of citizens and cybercrime and the above-mentioned individuals began to
form working groups to watch out for electoral violations upon their return;
19) Planning to send groups of reporters to America to prepare the necessary training to
have the supervision of the elections to the presidency under American leadership;
20) Statements of some offficials of foreign representatives in Iran based on the
expectation of unanticipated events in Iran aifier the presidential elections;
21) The publication of false news on the portable telephone wiretapping system in Iran
and its strength. On this issue, the Nokia Sims, which has sold the wiretapping system to
Iran, made an operation to prepare false information about Iran's wiretapping system's
capacity;
The foreigners' measures against the Islamic Republic of Iran aifier the glorious 22
Khordad [ June 121 elections were:
1) To weaken the status of velayat-e faq /h. This is part of the foreigners' priority deeds
and goals against the Islamic Republic of Iran and a lack of attention by some political
currents to the commands and guidance of the Supreme Leader (particularly aifier the
historical sermons of the Friday prayers of 29/3/88 [ June 19, 20091) presented an
appropriate opportunity for the foreigners to fan the flames of this issue. Along these
lines, the disgraceful eLorts based on insinuating a division between the views of the
Supreme Leader and that of His Eminence the Imam (Peace be upon him!) were made by
the enemies' propaganda apparatus;
2) Creating division in the united ranks of the nation and weakening popular support for
the Islamic Revolution's principles and goals;
3) Spreading an atmosphere of diLerence between political currents, parties, and
individuals;
4) Dragging the Islamic Republic of Iran's system's legitimacy into conflict and posing
claims on the matter of the system and its offcer's enjoyment of popular support;
5) ELorts towards conffirming the system's ineffectualness in creating democracy,
holding sound elections, confronting the latest crisis, and observing human rights;
6) Emphasizing the need for the presence of foreigners and elector observers in the
Islamic Republic of Iran for guaranteeing the soundness of the elections held. (OEis issue
was seriously on the agenda of countries such as America and Britain and dependent
grouplets like the Freedom Movement.);
Some of the interventionist declarations of American political and intelligence positions
aifier the elections were:
1) OEe former head of the CIA's saying that goons and thugs and economic and social
diffculties had the desired potential to create domestic crisis;
2) Emphasizing the need to invalidate the elections on the excuse of the need to pay
attention to the protesters' demands and observe the principles and requirements of
democracy in elections;”
3) Laying out the line for making a pattern of the role of youth in the course of the
Islamic Revolution's victory of 1979 and reconstituting the conditions for utilizing this
potential to confront the system;
4) Sending and activating its agents under the excuse of honorary and freelance reporters
aifier the return of foreign reporters;
5) Training in civil disobedience through internet sites (like the site Gozar,
http://www.gozaar.org/ tied to Freedom House http://www.freedomhouse.org/
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and the CIA);
6) Support of some American and European offficials to the street ffighting;
7) Issuing a statement by the American Congress in support of the rioters and
condemning the system;
8) Activating media and internet networks and creating cyberspace to spread desirable
stories, provoking the people to be present in illegal meetings and riots and spreading
forged and false stories on the number of killed;
9) Insisting on calling the rioters protesters and setting them up against the system;
10) OEe relationship of one of the active elements of Staff 88 (the accused Reza Raffi'i)
with the special Off cc of Iranian Affairs in Dubai and Ms. Jillian Barnes as an American
intelligence offficer; the sending of news and reports related to the riots through internet
sites and cooperation with the intelligence services of one of the region's Arab countries.
This person, while establishing relations with American media foundations, hurried to
obtain analyses relevant to the activities of foreigners and opposing the principles of the
revolution from one of the country's former figurers and information about the impact of
the boycott as problems relating to the running of the elections in the hands of Ms. Nazi
Biglari of VOA [ Voice of Americal; [ ?I
11) Aifier limitations on satellite networks, the stream of intelligence moved towards the
internet and in order to easy the use of internet subjects, they placed advanced soifiware
for translating English to Persian and vice versa into the hands of Iranian operators for
public use in such a way that by using this soifiware, they could translate matter on
English sits to Persia and study them. OEese measures were meant to make a maximum of
information in English (particularly the BBC) related to the crisis available to Iranian
operators, although they have serious weaknesses;
12) Offering the most advanced soifiware resources so that one can view a ffilm through a
computer with a telephone line and a modem and a slow internet connection so that those
who are connected can themselves, with a minimum of resources, can use the ffilms they
have in mind about the riots;
13) Hacking sites belonging to both currents in the country and, similarly, sites related to
the system's offcials, sites belonging to some candidates, etc., through foreigners in
order to exacerbate the domestic atmosphere of pessimism. Along these lines, in some
instances, there were efforts to hack through domestic internet (Shuttle Company, etc.) so
that foreign agents' hands will not appear and it will be completely converted to a
domestic conflict;
14) Activating the American company Facebook to ease relations between operators in
Iran and those of other countries concerning Iran. OEis company has presented its Persian
version based on the fact that many of the people of the world use Facebook to exchange
information about the fate of the elections in Iran, so the Persian-speakers can use it in
their mother tongue;
15) During the period of disturbances, some sites connected with the foreign issued
telephone numbers, names of operators, and passwords for free for their operators so that
if internet service is completely shut down in Iran, those who were connected and
individuals could the internet via dial up;
16) Regarding the rise of information for training, information related to violent and
peaceful struggles, there has been a massive amount of training in Persian posted on the
internet during the days of disturbances. Along these lines, there are two groups of
subjects available:
a) Subjects related to teaching violent means of protest —constructing remote control
bombs and time bombs and ways to struggle with anti-riot forces, ways to beat the police,
preparing tear gas at home, gathering and publishing complete information about
members of the Basij;
b) Subjects relating to teaching means of peaceful protest such as preparing CDs or Blue
Tooth of desired material, spreading green over government pictures and propaganda,
turning on car lights and in the early hours of dusk as a sign of protest, advise about
writing slogans on roofs;
17) OEe presence of a German lawyer related to the Lawyer's Center in Iran and his
taking residence in a hotel in located in a center of disturbances;
18) The direct presence of some diplomats in illegal street meetings (such as some of the
ambassadors of European countries and Britain) gathering intelligence through some of
those connected with the ambassadors present in illegal gatherings as well as the presence
of disguised aides to the French ambassador in electoral centers, as documented in
existing ffiles;
19) Financial cooperation and support to the rioters and counter-revolutionary grouplets
by some European countries such as Britain and granting visa and asylum to rioting
elements;
20) OEe use of local employees through some European embassies for gathering
intelligence and desired information;
21) Activating two local employees to gather signatures with the aim for the UN General
Secretary's visiting Iran;
22) ELorts to launch a strike in Iran;
23) Presenting to local employees in Germany specialized training for gathering news;
24) Gathering intelligence in the form of a channel through the accused Ms. Clotilde
Reiss (a French citizen) of riots and expressing to one of the orators the need for a strike,
according to her confession of 10/4/88 [ July 1, 20091;
25) Supporting protest meetings outside the country by some European countries;
26) European threats to recall their ambassadors to exert pressure on the country and
public opinion;
27) OEreaten to step up the boycott of the Islamic Republic;
28) Placing limitations on issuing visas for the Islamic Republic of Iran's statesmen;
29) During the time of disturbances, the Zionist regime's intelligence services summoned
its sources and announced that it intended to hold talks with them about the elections. In
addition to these matters, during the disturbances, two influential individuals tied to
Israel's intelligence services intervened at the scene of a clash and participated in setting
buses on ffire. To influential individuals were present at the scenes of the disturbances
every night of the disturbances until the last hours of the night, gathering intelligence;
30) OEe foreigners political measures, particularly those of Britain, America, and some
European countries completely oriented to intensifying the riots and giving them
prominence and creating home in the continuing the riots and protests and speeding them;
Along these lines, notable diplomatically unacceptable measures have been taken, the
main ones being:
. Public support to rioters with announcements that the doors of the European
embassies of some of the governments were open to agents of the rioters;
. Issuing statements and organizing demonstrations by some European political
parties and eLorts towards uniting the political demonstrations against the Islamic
Republic among the European countries;
The role of British political, intelligence, and media institutions in the events which
occurred aifier the tenth presidential elections:
1) Following the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the British who from the perspective
of influence in the government and precise knowledge of the structure and political
behavior of the new statesmen suLered a blow and a palpable poverty in intelligence,
made widespread eLorts for the past thirty years to increase their information. OEey, who
considered themselves the great inheritors of Britania's empire, aifier the decline of the
past golden age, now consider themselves a superpower, indeed, a central power in world
politic with a new role which, considering the British Foreign Ministry's new events and
greater attention to the Middle East in general and Iran in particular and took broad
measures in espionage and lording it over the socio-political situation and spread its
sphere of influence.
Although the bases for relations between these two countries were not deeply evolve
compared to before the revolution, the English still tried to maintain their presence and
influence in various pillars and levels in the Islamic Republic of Iran as an important and
influential country in the Middle East and pursue its political, cultural, and economic
interests.
Britain so-called offcially and superfficially rejected any policy of hard regime change,
but on the other hand, in hidden zones it tried to make the appropriate preparations to
utilize a strategy of a soft coup by establishing relations with various groups in society.
Indubitably, the elections in Iran were one of the most important situations of which the
British knew the details so that, given the exigencies of the situation, it might put into
action the necessary plans to intervene and take advantage of the weak points and internal
wounds towards the end of changing opinions and behavior for its various policies.
Britain's Cultural-Educational Council [ British Councifl, which operates as the cultural
section of the British embassy in Iran's has a record of having a presence in the country
from the time before the Islamic Revolution (under the title of the Iran-British Society),
and in the new period, from 2000-200 1 resumed work under the name of the English
Cultural and Educational Council. The British Cultural Council was an independent
organization and has branches in over a hundred countries and its center is in London.
But in Iran, it is considered the cultural branch of the British embassy. Among the BC's
numerous activities one can point to its holding general and specialized training in the
English language, cooperative education, granting scholarships in various flelds of higher
education, as well as leaders, researchers, professors in universities and centers of higher
education, offcials, employees in various institutions, journalists, and the like. On the
other hand, the leadership of scholarly educational, research, and artistic projects with the
participation of Iranian and British centers, joint university projects, and numerous other
such were within the sphere of this center.
Although these activities seemed in and of themselves ordinary matters, it is important to
note that this British center, under cover of these projects, pursued other goals, such as
identifying and attracting scientiffic and university leaders, plans and projects of the
country's centers of higher education and research, gathering intelligence in various
flelds under the guise of opinion polling of present sources, holding public and private
consultation meetings for individuals who intend to study or travel abroad, and numerous
other matters.
This council, in cooperation and coordination with the British embassy in Tehran, under
the pretext of the British Foreign Offce's Chewning Scholarships, sends a number of the
best students and graduates of Iran's universities to continue their studies in graduate
flelds of study or allow then opportunities to do research and complete projects of self-
discovery, and by holding interviews about sending them, disincline some of them to
return to Iran aifier they complete their term of study.
As for other forms of scholarship grants of the BC, one can mention short-term
scholarships and aid funds speciffically for studies for some of the university professors
and members of various universities in Iran. They enjoy help from its central offce in
London for trips to Britain.
BC makes great eLorts to have those who are sent to Britain on various excuses, to
maintain their connects aifier they return to Iran and use them in various ways to secure
British interests. In other words, such individuals they make them the BC's connections
in various internal organizations. They even invite them with various excuses to
participate in the British embassy's and BC's ceremonies and occasions so that in the
course of such ceremonies, senior diplomats assigned to British intelligence activities
could obtain full intelligence about these individuals, such as their jobs and positions in
the government's centers.
In any case, the basis of British work in general and BC in particular is to identify and
attract individuals in various institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran so that they could
go into action by utilizing them for their intelligence aims in Iran.
It is by holding courses through the support of the British Consulate and the cooperation
of British and Iranian circles within Iran that they put into operation the ffinal stages of
their projects for which they paid all these expenses (travel, residency, study, etc.). One
important point is that some of these projects because of the importance they assign them
among the national projects and the research connected with some of them through their
cooperation with BC or other British centers prepares the way for them to be exploited by
the foreigners.
With the approach of the time for the elections and the serious presence of the candidates
in the country's political campaigning field, the embassy's political department went into
action in the earnest presence and organized disguise which the local and powerful
employees of this section formed, from the end of Farvardin 1388 [ March-April 20091
with organization and a division of duties, for the sake of gathering intelligence and news
on matters such as: The system's offcials' perspectives, Friday prayers, Voice and
Vision, the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij and the views of the superior
commanders, the mosques, political circles, journals and newspapers and internet sites,
economic indicators, the bazaar and trade and presence in rural meetings. On this basis,
the Political Division organized twice-weekly meetings to categorize the intelligence and
news which had been gathered in the presence of the division chief and Mr. Thomas Bern
and a classiffication of ffinal reports was prepared. Along these lines, some measures of
this country [ Britaini to pursue and provoke the recent riots consist of
The British Embassy hurried to watch the news of reporters, blogs, popular views, the
students, the clergy, offcers at Voice and Vision, the Revolutionary Guards and the
Basij, in order to review Iran's daily developments, and as the elections approached, the
diplomats and local employees began to take trips to the provinces to survey the views of
the various Iranian ethnic groups towards the candidates they were interested in;
2) Widespread intelligence activity by the British to gather information about
disturbances and riots aifier the elections so that the virtually constantly dispatched local
employees to the scenes of the fighting and pursued intelligence-gathering, while these
local employees were instructed to get in touch with political parties and gather their
analyses and perspectives and report on them;
3) Aifier the results of the elections were determined, the British embassy hurried to
outline the publication of false reports about electoral fraud, and while announcing that
they were falsiffied and that ballots were forged, they made riots and illegal meetings out
to be protests and the right of the people. Holding a meeting by the British Ministry of
Foreign Affairs in the presence of oppositional grouplets (such as the Munaffiqin) in
London after the riots were formed, in which it was determined that the following
strategy would be put on the agenda of the protesters and the opposition:
a) The continuation of the riots and illegal gatherings (particularly after the Friday prayer
sermon of 29/3/88 [ June 19, 2009 ;
b) Open non-participation of the opposition grouplets;
c) Distinguishing the protesters from the line of violence (under the title of civil
disobedience);
4) The participation of all the British embassy diplomats in illegal marches and
assemblies aifier the elections;
5) One of the accused in the recent events confessed under the interrogation of about his
illegal presence along with his wife in a meeting supporting Mr. Karubi in Sa'adatabad,
his presence in illegal meetings of Mir Hosein Musavi's supporters in Sa'adatabad and
Gisha and in the presence of Lex Penfield, the First Political Secretary, and Thomas
Bern, the Second Political Secretary, who was expelled from the country aifier the recent
events. On 24/3/88 [ June 14, 20091 in Sana'i street, during a ffight and a riot around
Motahhari and Shariati Streets during the riot and arrest of some of the protesters, the
presence of Samuel Morgan, a diplomat of the Public Relations Section in 25/3/88 [ June
15, 20091 in Revolution Street in an illegal march, the participation of Paul Blami, aid to
the Visa Section (expelled from the country) on 28/3/88 [ June 17, 20091 in Ferdawsi
Square and photographing rallies of that day, the presence of Samuel Morgan on 27/3/88
[ June 16, 20091 in Karim Khan Street during an illegal march were confessed to.
(Hossein Rasam, interrogation of 6/4/88 [ June 27, 20091, pp. 12 and 13);
Similarly, a number of the accused openly confessed that Alex Penfield, the embassy's
First Political Secretary asked them to go to the Baharestan Square and report their
observations in the course of Mr. Musavi's illegal meetings at the Baharestan. (Arash
Momenian, Hossein Rasam)
The British ambassador asked local employees to review and report the situation in the
other cities.
Before the elections, Alex Penfield and one of the local employees of the Political
Section met with several members of the Central Offce of one of the protesting
candidates as well as with several individuals tied to parties and oLicers of some NOOs.
Aifier the elections, too, on 4/4/88 [ June 25, 20091, Mr. Penfleld met with one of the
individuals who made the reformists' political plans [ ?1 in the embassy's VIP consular
section (while obtaining a visa) and discussed the candidates for the election and the
events aifier it and the historical Friday prayer sermons of 29/3/88 [ June 18, 20091.
(Hossein Rasaam, interrogation of 9/4/88 [ June 30, 20091, pp. 17 and 18)
Setting aside a budget of 300 pounds to pay domestic NOOs.
Helping these NOOs could organize a coordinated channel of NOOs to beneffit from the
crisis conditions.
Identifying elements accessible through ILETS. In this way, the British embassy tried to
identify influential individuals and prepare the means to exploit them in critical times.
ELorts towards distributing ffilms in the embassy which did not have permission for
distribution with the intention of attracting ffilm directors and producers to be able to
exploit them when needed.
Creating a VIP section in the Visa Section in order to exploit individuals who have access
to various circles in the country and to get close to them on the excuse of holding visa
interviews.
The embassy's diplomatic eLorts to establish relations with ethnic and cultural leaders in
order to identify and attract them for the sake of desirable goals.
The presence of embassy diplomats in the country's various regions under the cover of
students of Persian and establishing relations with the people of the region.
Preparing the grounds for attracting political-cultural personalities in Britain for the sake
of interests under consideration. (Ata'ollah Mohajerani)
British intelligence-research institutions' establishing relations with domestic
intelligence-research centers to exert influence. (Chatham House, IISS)
Filling America's and Israel's intelligence vacuum through the British in order to
compensate for the absence of America from Iran.
Establishing relations with political leaders, parties, and personalities with the intent of
gathering intelligence and preparations with the intent of cooperating with that country's
[ Intelligence Service.
Contact with network and press proprietors with the aim of exerting influence on the
framework of society.
The role of the state news channel the BBC in the events aifier the presidential elections:
The state news agency BBC, which works under the supervision of the World Service
and whose budget is secured by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has for two years, by
choosing and dispatching reporters and ordinary people under the cover of the [ BB
Trust, begun to dispatch these individuals in various groups to Turkey and Dubai to give
them specialized training and, through this training, be able to spread so-called citizen
journalism and, by selecting talented people from among these individuals, choose the
forces they need for other branches of the BBC and, ultimately, guide and utilize
individual with connections within the country.
The Trust's budget, which is secured by a number of European countries through the
British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has reached 30 million dollars. The BBC has started
to found a Persian-language television station aifier it began its activities and in order to
create widespread change. It began its activity in Dey last year (1387) [ December 2008-
January 20091. Most of the people chosen to work on this station have passed through
terms of training in this Trust and are reporters of media which criticizes the system.
The BBC Persian service, with the purposeful measures that it pursued, began to establish
widespread relations with some domestic document forgers and they gathered their works
which lacked permission and worth for distribution. Then, with the program Your Turn,
whose principle leader was someone who had been arrested during the disturbances of 18
Tir [ July 91 and is a primary party to the [ BBC I Trust who spent some time in prison, it
began to create strife and diffculties in the country and exaggerate domestic diffculties
and political diffculties.
Before the elections, BBC Persian television made special preparations to set the tone for
coverage of the anniversary of Tir 18 [ July 91 to provoke the people and the students and
in this way create disturbances. On the even of the presidential election's being held,
BBC Persian sowed the seeds of sedition and talk about electoral fraud by inviting some
recalcitrant and problematic elements and paying them for a month's stay in London as
well as money for holding political roundtables.
In the fleld of the presidential elections, even before BBC Persian television was
launched, the question of whether it was possible to send reporters to Iran was repeatedly
raised by that news channel, how it could be disguised, etc. OEe result of all these plans
on the one hand and the special conditions which arose before the elections on the other
caused the BBC to prepare itself to take interventionist measures in the Islamic Republic.
By making widespread preparations on the day of the election, BBC Persian television
ran its program 24 hours a day and established relations with problematic people in the
country to transfer news reports moment by moment.
The guidance announced by foreigners on continuing the protests over the tenth
presidential electoral results were:
1) Emphasizing the continuation of the protests and not accepting the election's outcome
until they yielded the desired results;
2) Calling the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij elements of a military coup and stating
the necessity to drive these forces from the scene. (It will be noted that the statements of
various countries about violations of human rights, the need for international observers,
etc. should be evaluated in this context and eliminating the popular Basij forces from the
scene has been emphasized in the reports guided by the American intelligence and
security forces.);
3) Creating distinctions between religious and non-religious spheres;
4) Exaggerating diLerences between various social layers and emphasizing the lack of
support of some leaders of the electoral results;
5) Emphasizing the support of the opponents and protesters by some leaders and
celebrities;
6) Intensifying pressure with the aim of getting the president to resign;
B) Measures by the counter-revolutionary and terrorist grouplets and their role in
the events aifier the recent elections and disturbances.
Since as a result of the historical letter of His Eminence the Imam (may God's paradise
be bestowed upon him!), the Freedom Movement grouplet was driven fflom the country's
political sphere to the margins and its threats against the Islamic Revolution's
foundations have become more remote, but this grouplet has from the beginning of the
revolution to this day struggled in its various ups and downs to destroy the fruit of the
blood of thousands of martyrs and self-sacrifficing people by insisting on their own
policies of overthrow. The above-mentioned grouplet has, with its more active entry into
the country's political sphere in the course of the past two years, tried to make itself out
to the foreign countries as well as domestic recalcitrant groups to be an important
successor to the Islamic Republic of Iran's government in such a way that in this period,
the grouplet's General Secretary made trips to America, Germany, etc. In the following,
we point out some of the Freedom Movement's positions taken and measures of the past
two years:
1) The Freedom Movement's positions aifier the trip of Mr. Ebrahim Yazdi (the
organizational head of the illegal grouplet) to America (from 30/11/86 [ February 19,
20081 to the end of 5/3/87 [ May 5, 20081) adopted a sharper tone so that aifier years of
meetings in the grouplet's political offce, he clearly posed a strategy of regime change”,
albeit peacefully”, as Yazdi adds, thus making it a soifi coup;
2) Mr. Yazdi, aifier his return from America, brazenly and exaggeratedly took aim at the
principle pillars of the system and has put a strategy of attacking the velayat-e faq /h with
the goal of breaking the system's sanctities on its agenda. In an interview dated 23/3/87
[ May 23, 20081 on the news site Rooz, he stated, Now is the time to evaluate the record
of the system based on the velayat-e faq/h system. We believe that Iran's basic problem is
in the system of the velayat-e faq/h.
Last Mordad [ July-August l, the Organization of the Mojaheds of the Revolution invited
leaders of the Freedom Movement grouplet to participate in and speak at its Twelifih
Congress, and Mr. Ebrahim Yazdi stated in the weekly organizational meeting in this
regard, Your Servant had been invited to the congress and I even gave a message and it
was read in the meeting. We must learn from the past to be able to agree to advancing
reforms.”
Mr. Ebrahim Yazdi said on the joint bonds between the Freedom Movement and the
Organization of the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution and the Participation Party,
said, We are glad that political groups are calmly approaching reality. Groups which ten
years ago had created lines between themselves and the rest have now come to the
conclusion that these boundaries are not realistic. The Kargozaran of today are diLerent
from the one of ten years past ... OEere was a time when the Mojaheds of the Islamic
Revolution were not in a situation where they could sit down with the Freedom
Movement. But in their congress of this year, they invited us and we participated.”
This grouplet, for its part, in its message to the Participation Party considered organized
political participation, the development and growth of political parties and organizations
to be needed to strengthen the call for democratization in the country. OEe totalitarians'
multilayered and convoluted plans can only succeed when political parties have not the
possibility to discuss and come to an understanding on how to cooperate with each
other.”
The Participation Party's youth branch, too, invited Mohammad Tavassoli (president of
the Freedom Movement's Political Department) to speak in this party's meeting hall.
Tavassoli said in 1386 [ 2007-20081, One must work more on political currents. For
example, we must invest in participation so that it will have a broad eLect.”
3) In a consultation meeting of oppositional currents of Azar 1386 [ November-December
20071 which hosted the Freedom Movement grouplet and was held in the presence of
representatives from illegal grouplets, the Previous Offcers of the Center for
Strengthening Unity, the Offce for Strengthening, influential counter-revolutionaries,
elements indicating similar policies, Abdollah Nun, Hossein Ansari Rad [ Head of the
Sixth Majlis Commission Article 901, etc. , the following issue was emphasized: OEe
problem in the country today is not [ Mr.—authorl Ahmadinejad, but the principle of the
velayat-e faq /h, and the focus of our attack must be on it. It was similarly posed in this
meeting that some of the system's leaders were cooperating with them in this course;
4) The Freedom Movement grouplet actively participated in the recent elections as
opposed to previous terms and, by supporting Messrs. Musavi and Karrubi, they
expressed their expectation of eLecting fundamental change in the country through these
individuals.
Along these lines, the Freedom Movement, after holding meetings with offcials of
Messrs. Musavi and Karrubi's campaign offces, agreed to cooperate and ordered many
of its elements in Tehran and the provinces to be present in Mr. Mir Hossein Musavi's
campaign. An example of which is presence of Mr. Emad Bahavar, the president of the
group's youth branch in 1388 campaign of Mr. Musavi who also employed many
members of the youth branch in the aforementioned head quarter.
In addition to the Freedom Movement, other counter-revolutionary eclectic groups
claiming to support human rights held activities intent on preparing the grounds for
creating and spreading riots aifier the elections in cooperation with Western countries.
. Statements by some counter-revolutionary leaders and grouplets:
Some of the counter-revolutionary leaders and grouplets tried during the days of electoral
rivalry, by making insinuations about fraud and an electoral coup, to set the stage for
disturbances aifier the elections so that in the meantime one might point to the leadership
of the Freedom Movement grouplet and Keyvan Samimi (member and a founder of the
self-declared Committee for the Defense of Free, Sound, and Just Elections
[ http://www.humanrights-ir.org/php/viewen.php?objnr=270 1).
In the military flelds, armed counter-revolutionary grouplets, from the groups of the
communist and socialist leifi to the eclectic currents and the cruel-hearted Munaffiqin and
separatist ethnic currents with their support of their Western masters have poured the
blood of thousands of individual people on the ground.
An interesting point concerning the Hypocrites is that this grouplet was removed from the
list of list of terrorist groups in a premeditated move and in an agreement between the
Western governments and the Hypocrites. OEis move was in fact a step towards
legitimizing them and giving them room to maneuver to carry out their regime change
policies in the context of the tenth term of presidential elections for the Islamic Republic
of Iran. An important point in this regard is that the ffirst country to take this step and
remove the Hypocrites from the list of terrorist groups was Britain, whose ffingerprints
can be seen here and there in the recent troubles.
The terrorist grouplet, the Munaffiqin, once more feel into gross error as in years past due
to its stubborn opposition to the sacred Islamic system and lack of acquaintance with the
country's internal situation. OEis grouplet gained influence in the electoral staLs of
Messrs. Mir Hossein Musavi and Karrubi aifier great eLort. (semi-classiffied ffile
570/85/88) Similarly, they laid plans for months before to organize craifismen's protests
of electoral rivalry and to intensify the diLerences between the candidates' supporters.
But the pride-inspiring participation of 85% of the wise people of Islamic Iran in the
elections foiled the Hypocrites' plots and schemes.
Elements of the Munaffiqin grouplet, by exerting all its might, send in trained teams to
create chaos and ride the wave and encourage demonstrations to take violent measures
and terrorism. This grouplet, by issuing one statement after another by its leaders and
their widespread publication through satellite channels and the internet, tried to spread
the scope and continue the disturbances and riots. In this connection, consider the
grouplet's leaders' message issued on 27 Khordad and 18 Tir 1388 [ June 17 and July 9,
20091:
Yes, now you, woman and man, have fought and have risen up in every street and alley
and cry out, just as [ Munaffiqin leader Maryam Rajavi—authorl announced, one must
strongly greet the annulment of the elections of this regime. Free elections must be held
under the United Nations on the basis of the principle of government by the people ... 27
Khordad 1388 [ June 17, 20091.”
Speedy demonstrations, at all times and in every place, particularly in sensitive points
and points empty of the enemy's repressive forces. Even under circumstances in which
there is no possibility to rally, nuclei of nine people, ffive people, or even nuclei of
resistance of only three young revolutionaries can divide, tire, and exhaust the enemy's
repressive forces. Small nuclei are the driving motor and path-breakers for bigger
gatherings. OEe separate nuclei and teams should not neglect preparations and
transportation and medical aid and communications, to the degree possible.” (18 Tir 1388
[ July 19, 20091)
Similarly, the above-mentioned grouplet gave some of its contacts, which had previously
seen terrorist training in Camp Ashraf in Iraq and had been sent into the country with
speciffic purposes, an agenda of carrying out terrorist measures including setting ffire to
buses, banks, [ andi telephone kiosks and attacking the security forces' military and Basij
forces' centers. Along the same lines, one of the most basic bases of the terroristic
grouplets, the Hypocrites stationed in Britain (with telephone number 00442032398487),
was to take charge of leading teams for domestic terror and riot and, while announcing a
line of armed struggle and creating chaos in the country and provoking the protesters to
raise extreme slogans against the authorities and basic pillars of the system and by
spreading distrust of the system among the people, prepare the way for creating division
between the authorities and the people and to ignore any way of actually achieving these
goals. The important statements of classiffied ffile 11 597/88dt says the following on the
matter: From Mehr 1386 [ September-October 20071, via one of the supporters of the
group I established contact with them (the Hypocrites) and in Dci [ December 2007-
January 20081 of that year I was illegally smuggled by that grouplet's contacts to Iraq and
received various kinds of training, such as computer work, propaganda operations,
recruiting forces, ideological classes, intelligence-gathering, terroristic operations, etc., in
that camp and was illegally dispatched to enter the country to execute my missions and
returned. During this period, they deposited into my account a sum of a million four
hundred thousand Tomans for me to carry out the operations and my contact deposited it.
Among the foci of my mission in the elections was to gather information and intelligence
from electoral stations and get pictures and ffilms and send them to the Hypocrites. Aifier
the riots began, they emphasized that I be present on the scenes of the ffighting. On
27/3/88 [ June 17, 20091, my contact, named Zohreh, contacted me from number
00442032398487 and said, All the people of Iran have personal problems ... but what is
the root of the problems? ... OEey must be uprooted ... Now I think it is the time. One
must not sit hands folded ... We are ready to help you. So armed warfare is our cry of the
day ... Go with your friends and set something on ffire, somewhere where the Basij is.
Gather ffive or six of you and go stealthily and set their base on ffire. Carry gas and throw
a [ Molotovi cocktail and ignite the gas station near them, the same with public buses ...
get the people out of them and then set them on ffire in the middle of the road ...“
In this connection, a number of the grouplet's contacts who were lead by the Hypocrites
and on the scene to create chaos and make trouble and were killed or wounded during the
clashes, the Hypocrites, in accordance with their hypocritical nature, in order to take over
some of the demonstrations for their own beneffit, held mock memorials for them in
Camp Ashraf on 3/5/88 [ July 25, 20091.
It is necessary to mention that agents of sedition, intent on gathering intelligence within
the country, while paying sums each month to some individuals, worked to deceive them
through establishing contacts under such covers as news agencies like Homa News
Agency or Iran News Agency, and, similarly, the Committee for the so-called Defense of
Human Rights and Political Prisoners, etc.
By the True One's kindness and generosity and the day and night eLorts of the Imam of
the Age's forgotten soldiers, a number of the principle contacts of the grouplet who
played an active role in the street ffighting have been identiffied and arrested and the
eLorts of the Hypocrite terrorists to damage the sacred Islamic system have remained
unsuccessful.
The ethnic and separatist groups, for their part, which have struggled for years to ruin this
land under the leadership of this country's sworn enemies, have not remained idle during
the presidential election period and have taken it upon themselves to execute other
scenarios.
According to documents and the accused, these currents have had on their agenda a
variety of terroristic operations under the leadership of the enemy's intelligence services
to create and spread disturbances, but have been arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence
before every operation. Below, we indicate some of their operations and programs:
They have gathered in Mr. Karrubi's electoral staL with the intention of gathering
intelligence and exerting influence and towards intensifying diLerences between the
candidates' supporters and inciting riot and planned to set oL an explosion during Mr.
Mir Hossein Musavi's speech in the stadium in Tabriz.
It is worth mentioning that two weapons and twenty bombs were found on the accused in
this ffile.
In the cultural sphere, the agents of the enemy's Cultural NATO, by exploiting their
empire of media, are trying to execute coup plans and programs so that in this context,
one could point to the activities of Western media in its eLorts to overthrow the Islamic
Republic of Iran by exploiting the chaotic atmosphere and the disturbances aifier the
elections for the tenth term of the presidency. The following are worth noting in this
regard:
The media operations and psychological operations of Britain and America have made
the greatest effort to spread chaos. Between them, the British role is the greater and the
most eLective. One might dare say that BBC Persian was the most active of the agents
provoking the disturbances and this channel's psychological operations were on a higher
level compared to other satellite channels. In reviewing this media's activities during the
days before and aifier the riots, two completely diLerent aspects of the BBC can be seen.
During the days before the disturbances and the days of the electoral rivalries, this
channel tried to display the electoral enthusiasm in Iran as well as present the diLerent
political viewpoints which existed in the country in order to attract spokesmen. OEis
measure prepared the way for the execution of the next stage of this network's plan.
In the next stage, during the beginning of the riots, this change was transformed into the
rioters' media and while exaggeratedly presenting news, ffilms, reports, interviews, etc.
devoted to the disturbances, launched a psychological war against the Islamic Republic of
Iran. The BBC Persian tried in this part of the program for psychological operations to,
while raising the issue of electoral fraud, by presenting an atmosphere of epic and
emotion, encouraged the viewers to participate in the riots.
This channel, as ever, tries, by broadcasting archive photos related to the riots or
whatever new pictures it has, to depict the country as chaotic.
Among the American channels, VOA [ Voice of Americal has played the greatest role in
fanning the flames of riot. OEis channel, which is, of course, at a lower level and is less
professional than the BBC, has pursued two goals by before the electoral competition,
has two goals on its agenda by choosing destructive methods:
1) Destroying the credibility and legitimacy of the elections in the Islamic Republic of
Iran by depicting them as anti-democratic;
2) Destroying the president's image and credibility;
Aifier the elections and with the beginning of the riots, this network also worked, by
presenting tendentious news, to hold interviews with fugitive counter-revolutionary
elements, etc., and depict the rioters' movement as a popular movement in order to
overthrow the Islamic system.
In addition to the above-mentioned networks, there are the networks tied to the counter-
revolutionary grouplets which, through the Western country's financial and technical
support, are engaged in activity and compliment the role of the BBC and the VOA.
The Western countries, in addition to activity in the television networks, are also active in
the realm of the internet and have presented [ interneti services to the rioters, some of
which are as follows:
1) Contributing for public use soifiware to translate English to Persian and vice versa.
2) Presenting advanced soifiware for viewing flims related to the riots on low-speed
internet;
3) Presenting ffilter-breaking programs appropriate for the Iranian network structure;
4) Providing service by the Twitter Company for Iranian spokesmen. (OEis American
company delayed its day of service upgrading, which required it to be down for several
days on June 20, 2009, with the aim of supporting and providing service for the rioters;
5) Activating the American company Face Book in order to ease contacts between
Iranian users and those of other countries. OEis company provided its own trial version in
Persian on the occasion of the riots so that the rioters could use it better;
1) Spread the grouplet's media channel by using television and internet space;
2) Eliminating religion from the thoughts of the viewers, listeners, and contacts with the
aim of their confronting the religious and divine government of the Islamic Republic of
Iran and converting these individuals into the enemy's pawns to overthrow the sacred
system of the Islamic Republic of Iran;
3) Presenting military and intelligence training to individuals they have attracted to create
and increase an operational ability against the Islamic Republic of Iran;
4) Utilize attracted elements to carry out intelligence operations for the sake of the aims
of the enemy's intelligence services as well as the grouplet's aims and programs;
5) Identify and carry out intelligence operations against elements and forces supporting
the system with the object of assassination;
6) Planning to execute terrorist operations;
7) Creating panic and terror in the country by carrying out terrorist operations of mass
murder with the aim of leaving a maximum of killed in these actions and creating an
irreparable crisis in the country;
8) Planning the assassination of political ffigures and thinkers and theoreticians, etc. in
society
The Royalist Society grouplet, based on the afore-mentioned policies, planted a bomb
and carried out terroristic operations in the Hosseyniyih of His Holiness the Lord of
Martyrs in Shiraz in Farvardin 1387 [ April 20081. In this operation, fourteen ritual
mourners in the Hosseyniyih were martyred and over two hundred were wounded. Some
of the martyrs were even infants and invalids.
Among this Royalist Society grouplet's operations the was the use of the electoral
atmosphere to advance the grouplet's regime-change goals in the context of America's,
Britain's, and Israel's strategy on this matter, which has the following program put on its
internal agenda by the enemy's intelligence services and the leaders of the grouplets:
1) Gather intelligence on the electoral atmosphere of the tenth presidential elections.
2) Gather intelligence on Islamic Revolutionary Guards and the Basij.
3) Identify important and crowded centers with the aim of planting bombs.
4) Identify and execute necessary operations to prepare planting bombs and carrying out
terroristic operations in two crowded centers for casting votes, the Tehran Hosseyniyih
Ershad and the Narmak's an-Nabi Mosque.
5) Planting bombs in crowded centers such as the Hazrat Ali Akbar (Upon whom be
peace!) Chizar Shrine and the Zaid (Upon whom be peace!) Shrine in the Tehran Bazaar.
6) Planting bombs in the Hosseiniyih Fatemiyun in Mojahedin Street.
7) Using chemical and poison bombs in crowded centers.
8) Identifying sensitive government centers for planting bombs.
9) Identifying important fuel and food depots.
10) Planning to pollute Tehran's water supply with highly powerful toxins.
11) Present training to the rioters so they can expand the scope of the riots as follows:
Training in forming nuclei of struggle;
Training in the principles of intelligence;
Training in making bombs and hand-made grenades;
Training in confronting the anti-riot police;
Training in partisan warfare;
Training in making electronic shock devices;
Training in making teargas sprays and the means of resisting them;
Training in eavesdropping and countering eavesdropping;
Training in getting around filtering and countering ways of being identiffied online;
Training in evading jamming devices;
Training in pursuing and countering being pursued;
Training in working with weapons;
The above-mentioned items speak of how the terroristic Royalist Society grouplet has,
over the past two years, acted towards the overthrow of the sacred system of the Islamic
Republic of Iran and how the members of this grouplet, aware of the situation, have acted
in accord with the goals of the intelligence services of the enemy and leaders of the
grouplet.
Similarly, existing indicators show that this grouplet entered the fleld to urge on the
rioters during the post-election riots on the basis of a plan laid by the enemies of the
Islamic Republic of Iran as a piece of the puzzle for a velvet coup as one of the powerful
arms of the regime-change current to bring the strength of the system of the Islamic
Republic of Iran into question and create a widespread and irreparable crisis. We can
take, for instance, the plan to explode a bomb in His Holiness the late Imam's shrine in
30/3/88 [ June 20, 2009] by someone named Bizhan Abbasi, who was killed through the
offcers' alertness before he could approach the sacred grave of the Imam (God's mercy
be upon him!) and died in the explosion.
The most important foreigner [ s] in the case of the Royalist Society are:
1) Jamshid Sharmehr. He was one of the grouplet's leaders and was based in Los
Angeles, America. He was the contact between the CIA and the Royalist Society and
played an essential role in the grouplet;
2) Emanuel Mar. He was originally Jewish and an off cer in Mossad and lives in
America and Israel;
3) Dardaneh Manuchehr. He is based in London, England and is the grouplet's contact
with the British Intelligence Service;
It is necessary to note that after the explosion in the Hosseyniyih of the Seyyed Al-
Shuhada in Shiraz, a red alert was sent out to the Interpol by the Judiciary. Unfortunately,
the American and British police (despite the aforementioned participations in terrorist
acts and the acceptance of this matter in the media), did not offer any cooperation in
arresting and turning in the accused:
1) Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani, son of Esmail
2) Ahmad Karimi, son of Mohammad
3) Hamed Ruhinezhad, son of Mohammad Reza
4) Arash Rahmani, son of Davoud
5) Amir Reza Areffi, son of Ahmad
An explanation of the charges of each of the accused is reflected in the ffile and their
indictment the proofs of the charge and the degree of culpability of each of them in the
recent sedition is enumerated.
Assistant to the Revolutionary Public Prosecutor
Translation taken from Iran Rises website, available at
http : //www.glineorientalist.com!IranRises/the-complete-text-of-the-indictment- of-the-
second- group-of-accused- in-the-project-for-a-velvet-coup !
