Mois

While the MEK has little popular support among Iranians, the MOIS considers the group — and its ties with foreign powers — a threat to Iran’s national security.

A report provided to the MOIS by a source in Mosul contains an account of internal deliberations from a December 2014 meeting of senior ISIS leaders, including Baghdadi.

But the Iranians found that the Sunni militants could be deceptive, the MOIS documents show.

One of the districts named in the MOIS document, Zumar, was the site of heavy coalition air activity in support of a Peshmerga offensive during this period.

Their work with the Basij in attacking student protestors with knives, tear gas, and electric batons has resulted in them being specifically targeted by U.S. sanctions for human rights abuses, much like the MOIS and LEF (, 2018).

Zarif also has close relations with Reza Amiri Moghaddam, head of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security’s (MOIS) Foreign Displacement Office.

For a start, they were all reportedly arrested by the intelligence section of the IRGC, not the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).

They have trained Ministry of Intelligence & Security (MOIS) agents implanted in every European embassy.