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Iran
Focus
 London, Jun. 11 – Several key agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS
a.k.a. VEVAK) operating in countries bordering Iran
have gone on the run from their terror masters in Tehran, a well-placed source inside the
government told Iran Focus.
Refusing to identify specifically the agents that had gone on the run, the
source who requested anonymity told Iran Focus that the agents were “high up”
on the ministry’s organisational chart.
The contact blackout began last month and the ministry has still not managed
to track the agents’ locations, the source said.
Tehran has however
since ruled out the possibility that the agents had been arrested by foreign
security forces.
Soon after hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
took office as President, a purge of a number of senior officials in the MOIS
with ties to former President Mohammad Khatami’s
political camp was carried out. Some of the former officials are currently
facing trials in special courts set up to deal with security agents.
Control of the ministry, which is currently headed by radical Shiite cleric Hojjatoleslam Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ezhei, has since come
into the hands of a clique of hard-liners once allied to former Deputy
Intelligence Minister Saeed Emami.
Until his highly controversial “suicide” in prison, Emami
had a turbulent history in the dreaded ministry. In 1997, a series of
gruesome murders of dissident journalists and writers, commonly known as the
“chain murders”, were carried out throughout Iran. In the aftermath,
journalist Akbar Ganji shed light on the murders, revealing that it had
been an “inside-job” sanctioned on Emami’s orders. The MOIS blamed the killings on “rogue agents”.
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