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	Ministry of Intelligence (Iran) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The organization was intended to replace SAVAK, Iran's intelligence agency during the rule of the Shah, but it is unclear how much continuity there is between the two organizations—while their role is similar, their underlying ideology is radically different.
		The formation of the ministry was proposed by Saeed Hajjarian to the government of Mir-Hossein Mousavi and then the parliament.
		The ministry was finally founded on August 18, 1984, abandoning many small intelligence agencies that were formed in different governmental organization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ministry_of_Intelligence_of_Iran (348 words)

	Iran - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Iran was declared an Islamic republic, and a new constitution, based on Islamic principles, was adopted.
		Iran's intelligence ministry admitted in early January 1999 that its agents had been directly implicated in the recent murders of political and intellectual dissidents.
		She said that the USA was ready to negotiate a settlement for Iran's outstanding legal claims, including the return of Iranian assets which have been frozen since 1979.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Iran (2743 words)

	Iran Focus - Other - Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security
		The current Minister of Intelligence and Security, Hojatoleslam Ali Younesi, was appointed the Head of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran and later Head of the Politico-Ideological Bureau of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) soon after the 1979 revolution that toppled the Shah.
		In 1987 he became the Representative of the Acting Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces at the Intelligence Directorate of the army, and was appointed a religious judge.
		Iran Focus will elaborate on the principle aims and objectives of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security and its activities and targets in subsequent issues.
	www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/print.php?storyid=2020 (698 words)

	Intelligence
		Intelligence (trait) Intelligence is a general mental capability that involves the ability to learn.
		Intelligence agencies Intelligence Agency and governmental or quasi governmental organization whose primary duty is the...
		Intelligence Bureau of Pakistan The Intelligence Bureau is part of the Interior Ministry of Pakistan.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/intelligence.html (1248 words)

	The Media Line - News Detail
		Iran's most formidable adversary is the Sipahe Sahaba Pakistan, a murderous Wahhabi-Deobandi organization that has received logistical and financial help both from Saudi intelligence and sympathetic elements in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
		The tensions between Iran and the Taliban culminated in September 1998 with the slaying of 10 Iranian diplomats and a journalist by Pakistani members of the Taliban inside the compounds of the Iranian consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif.
		Major western intelligence agencies-including those in the U.S.-failed to grasp the institutional and ideological complexities that underpinned the evolution of the post-revolutionary Iranian intelligence community in the period 1980-84.
	www.themedialine.org /news/print_news_detail.asp?NewsID=6016 (1843 words)

	Analysis: Some Fear Reversal Of Reforms At Iranian Intelligence Ministry - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Iran's Intelligence and Security Ministry earned a reputation for persecuting and killing dissidents in Iran and abroad and for economic corruption in the first 15 years of its existence (1984-99).
		The Intelligence and Security Ministry, meanwhile, came to be seen as an institution that was apolitical and less corrupt than it had been in the past.
		Intelligence and Security Minister Yunesi said in December that the prevalence of competing institutions hindered the fight against corruption, "Sharq" reported on 11 December.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/02/c3fee702-ee6e-4076-82fa-b04e8e10000c.html (1046 words)

	Ministry of Intelligence of Iran - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Ministry of Intelligence of Iran - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Ministry of Intelligence (وزارت اطلاعات), is the primary intelligence agency of Iran.
		The four ministers since the founding of the ministry, have been Mohammad Reyshahri (under Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi), Ali Fallahian (under President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani), Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi (under President Mohammad Khatami, resigned after a year), and Ali Younessi (under President Khatami).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Iranian_Ministry_of_Intelligence (378 words)

	American RadioWorks - My Name Is Iran
		She was allegedly responsible for circulating the taped confession that forced the Ministry of Intelligence to acknowledge its involvement in the crime.
		He is being held in prison after defending the families of two victims of the 1998 killings connected with Iran's Intelligence Ministry.
		Rasool Nafisi was born and raised in a small desert-town in Iran and holds a law degree from Tehran University.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/iran/htmlversion/cast.html (1249 words)

	Ministry of Intelligence and Security VEVAK - Iran Intelligence Agencies
		With a large budget and extensive organization, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security is of the most powerful ministries in the Iranian government.
		Ministry of Security and Intelligence personnel are either attached as diplomats in Iranian embassies and consulate offices or as Ministry of Guidance and Propaganda representatives.
		Non-official covers include Iran Air [the official airline of Iran] or as students, merchants, mechanics, shopkeepers, bank clerks, as well as members of opposition groups.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/iran/vevak.htm (184 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ministry of Intelligence of Iran
		An intelligence agency is a governmental organization devoted to gathering of information by means of espionage (spying), communication interception, cryptoanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources.
		Mir-Hossein Mousavi (میرحسین موسوی;) (born 1941?) was the Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1988, at the time of Ali Khameneis presidency.
		Ghorbanali Dori-Najafabadi was the minister of intelligence and security in when some journalists and opponent politicians were killed in Iran by security agents.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ministry-of-Intelligence-of-Iran (832 words)

	TIME Europe \| Iran TIME Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Iran itself is a victim of terrorism, Zarif countered, citing a CIA plan disclosed this year to destabilize the Islamic Republic, as well as bombing and assassinations laid to Iranian opposition groups.
		Iran's role in the bombings was never proven in a court of law, says a French Justice Ministry official, "but the organization that did it definitely had a green light from Tehran."
		Iran has regularly been funding Hizballah at a level of about $100 million a year, though the stipend dropped to $60 million last year.
	www.time.com /time/europe/timetrails/iran/ir961111.html (2284 words)

	History - Ministry of Intelligence and Security VEVAK - Iran Intelligence Agencies
		The Islamic Republic of Iran is Khomeini' philosophy of Velayat-e Faqih, or "Islamic Rule," which calls for imposing absolute authority over the populace, and on the other upon extending this authority to all Muslims, i.e.
		The intelligence ministry's admission led to the resignation in early February 1999 of its former head -- Qorban-Ali Dori-Najafabadi -- after weeks of mounting pressure from supporters of Iran's moderate President Mohammad Khatami.
		The new head of the intelligence services is a protege of one of Khatami's leading conservative rivals -- Hojatoleslam Mohammad Mohammadi Reyshahri -- who came in a distant third in the presidential race in 1997.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/iran/vevak-history.htm (573 words)

	USNews.com: The Baghdad files: A trove of secret intelligence reports spells out in chilling detail how Iraq's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Agents from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps infiltrated several Iraqi cities (yellow) to collect information on U.S.-led forces and work with insurgent groups after the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
		A British intelligence report says that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps "funded, trained, and armed the group, as well as assigning IRGC personnel in a support capacity." Members returned to Iraq after the coalition invasion in March 2003.
		Intelligence reports say that Iran used Hezbollah to train and provide funds to Sadr's militia and may have also used front companies to fund Sadr's attacks against coalition forces.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/041122/22iran_11.htm (369 words)

	Iran
		Iran remained the premier state sponsor of terrorism in 1996.
		Iran's primary targets are members of the regime's main opposition groups, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), as well as former officials of the late Shah's government who speak out against the clerical regime.
		Although Turkey and Iran agreed to a joint operation in mid-October to remove the PKK from the border region, Iran reportedly failed to cooperate in a meaningful way.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/hpages/terror/iran.htm (1032 words)

	U.S. says Iran harbors al Qaeda 'associate' - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		American intelligence officials said Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, and the Qods Division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a unit of hard-line Islamist shock troops, are deeply involved in supporting terrorists, including al Qaeda.
		Another intelligence official said al-Zarqawi might be among the al Qaeda members that the government of Iran said it had detained, although other officials doubted this.
		Defense and intelligence officials said the senior al Qaeda members the secretary has mentioned include at least two hiding in Iran — including Sayf al-Adl, who is believed to be the official in charge of al Qaeda's military operations and has been linked to the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa.
	washingtontimes.com /national/20030610-125659-6237r.htm (1050 words)

	INTELLIGENCE MINISTRY DENIES ITS STAFF KILLED ZAHRA KAZEMI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Iranian jurists and lawyers had denounced the decision to put the Tehran prosecutor’s office in charge of the investigations, observing that anyhow, the Prosecutor was one of the interrogators.
		Kazemi died of a brain stroke, but the investigation committee, made of ministers of Interior, Intelligence, Justice and Guidance determined that the death was caused by brain haemorrhage due to a solid bloc that hat hit the head and Iran's Vice-President Mohammad Ali Abtahi said at the end of July she was probably murdered.
		How the incident happened is clearly evident for this Ministry and the general public will be informed about it at the proper time", the official news agency IRNA quoted a statement from the Intelligence Ministry as saying.
	www.iran-press-service.com /articles_2003/Aug-2003/journalist_dies_26803.htm (566 words)

	"Factionalism in Iran's Domestic Security Forces" (February 2002)
		Ministries have over-lapping responsibilities and elements within the ministries often have agendas that differ from those of their superiors or colleagues.
		President Khatami's first Intelligence Minister, Hojatoleslam Qorban-Ali Dori-Najafabadi, did not have an intelligence background and was considered to be a relatively liberal and pragmatic cleric.
		The man chosen as Iran's fourth Intelligence Minister was Hojatoleslam Ali Yunesi, who had served in previous intelligence posts and was a protégé of Reyshahri.
	www.meib.org /articles/0202_me2.htm (2667 words)

	Brief on Iran, No. 644
		One official (who spoke on condition of anonymity) said "a group" of employees at the Iranian interests section are agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the intelligence and covert action unit that has been linked by the U.S. government to support for international terrorism.
		U.S. intelligence officials said Iranian intelligence agents, including officials operating out of the interests section and the United Nations mission in New York, spy on Iranians in America.
		Iran’s agents also are engaged in collecting advanced U.S. technology for weapons and other uses.
	www.iran-e-azad.org /english/boi/06440428_97.html (712 words)

	USNews.com: The Baghdad files: A trove of secret intelligence reports spells out in chilling detail how Iraq's ...
		Iran, according to the reports, also sought to place spies within Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority, then running Iraq's affairs, and they followed and photographed coalition forces.
		In one case, U.S. intelligence officials learned that a MOIS agent, a man named Muhammad Farhaadi, videotaped coalition operations in Karbala, a city south of Baghdad, then took the tape back to Iran.
		Iran knows this and will strive to recruit former IIS officers before the U.S. is able to do so.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/041122/22iran_5.htm (563 words)

	Iranian Alert - September 25 - 4000+ IRGC, Al Quds Corps and the Intelligence Ministry in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Iran Press News reported that Al Arabiya Television in a report announced: Ahmadinejad has demanded that the authorities of the previous team of nuclear negotiators of the regime, headed by Mullah Hasan Rowhani be prosecuted.
		Iran Press News reported that more than 1600 workers and retirees from the city of Qazveen's thread company gathered in front of the gates of the factory to protest non-receipt of their wages.
		Iran Press News reported that the regime's representative at the Islamic Parliamentary Assembly said: The British are in the process of putting other operations in action to weaken the Islamic Republic of Iran however what they don't seem to comprehend is that they cannot do a damn thing.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1491356/posts (2067 words)

	Iran Terror
		Iran Focus– A former senior official in Iran’s dreaded secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), who personally oversaw the gruesome murders of two Christian bishops and a priest in Iran in the 1990s, has been appointed as the new Director General of the country’s Interior Ministry, Iran Focus has learnt.
		The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom has become aware that known agents of the Iranian regime’s Intelligence Ministry acting under the pretence of ‘Iran Interlink’, a shadowy group believed to be linked to the Mullahs, are to hold a press conference tomorrow, 10th November at 10 am in Fielden House, Westminister.
		Iran Interlink is a pressure group / support organisation which provides a point of contact for families and friends of members of the Iranian Mojahedin-e Khalq.
	www.iranterror.com (1356 words)

	Iran-U.S. News & Views
		The official said "a group" of employees at the Iranian interests section are agents of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the intelligence and covert action unit that has been linked by the U.S. government to support for international terrorism.
		Iranian intelligence activities from the interests section were limited to "watching their own people," he said.
		Iran's intelligence service is believed to use a network of Iranian nationals in the United States operating as business representatives or academics.
	www.iranian.com /Feb97/Opinion/DCoffice.html (785 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Rights, Interrogation, Serial murders case
		Irrespective of whether the videos are genuine or forged, they have certainly been made as part of an attempt to support the "theory" repeated on a number of occasions by Ayatollah Khamnei (Iran's supreme leader) that "rogue agents" within the Islamic Regime's Ministry of Intelligence were acting on behalf of the CIA and Israel.
		The woman witness is supposed to be Mrs Emami (Eslami) the wife of the ex deputy minister of Intelligence Saeed Emami (Eslami).
		The interrogators then tell the woman (assumed to be the wife of former Deputy Minister of Intelligence in Iran) that she has to explain her visits to Israel.
	www.iranian.com /Features/2002/January/Interogation (3079 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Iran ministry denies involvement in death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has denied any involvement of its personnel in the death of an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist.
		The Tehran prosecutor said late on Monday two of the ministry’s agents had been charged in connection with the “quasi-intentional” murder of Zahra Kazemi, 54, who died of a brain haemorrhage on 10 July following interrogation.
		“The Ministry of Intelligence denies the charges brought by the Tehran public and revolutionary prosecution office on its two employees,” a statement was quoted as saying.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/20F832A4-0163-4212-B1A1-C08EAC176367.htm (346 words)

	Operations - Ministry of Intelligence and Security VEVAK - Iran Intelligence Agencies
		Iran is the most active sponsor of terrorism in the world.
		The Ministry of Intelligence and Security is responsible for intelligence collection to support terrorist operations.
		The ministry is also responsible for liaison activities with supported terrorist groups and Islamic fundamentalist movements.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/iran/vevak/ops.htm (562 words)

	U.S. Gathering Nuclear Intelligence Inside Iran for Possible Strike
		Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran and against targets in the ongoing war on terrorism—during his second term.
		TEHRAN, Iran – Iran said Sunday that environmental samples taken from a military complex this weekend by UN nuclear inspectors will prove that the country’s atomic program is for peaceful purposes and not for making weapons as the United States alleges.
		Iran repeatedly has denied any work on secret nuclear weapons programs, saying its nuclear activities are for peaceful energy purposes only.
	guerrillanews.com /headlines/headline.php?id=818 (873 words)

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