Iranian Intelligence to pressure on Iranian refugees and dissidents abroad

As local sources reported, the Minister of Intelligence and Security Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ezhei expressed fear that "the enemy is trying to sow divisions among the people and their government."

He claimed that "a number of the instigators of the unrests are located over the borders and we have begun to make them lose hope in their tactics. Through the Foreign Ministry, we are in contact with the governments of countries where these people are residing or have fled to or from where they are being directed. We have tried to convince these countries to hand them over to the Islamic Republic or at least restrict their activities."

But it is insufficient to his mind, so the Iranian secret services will start acting abroad to oppress "instigators". Mostly it applies to the Iranians in Azerbaijan and leaders of the Iranian Azerbaijanis abroad, local sources report.

As AIA previously reported, Tehran's secret services recently have boosted their work in the countries of the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia. The regional activity of Tehran's secret services concerns mainly the South-Caucasian and Central-Asian politics of the USA.

From the point of view of confidential information, Iranian representatives pay most attention to the regional contacts of the Americans in political and military sphere, in particular – to the Pentagon, CIA, and NATO officials' visits to the countries of the region.

The Iranians also have a particular interest in all contacts of the employees of the local US embassies, and in the activity of US academic circles and humanitarian foundations. Iranian special services' primary purpose is to collect information about possible use of the states in the region for military, intelligence, and propaganda activity of the USA against the Ayatollahs' regime.

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