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Iran’s intelligence service includes 30,000 people who are engaged in covert and clandestine activities that range from spying to stealing technology to terrorist bombings and assassination, according to a Pentagon report.
The report concluded that Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, known as MOIS, is “one of the largest and most dynamic intelligence agencies in the Middle East.”
Some notable quotes:
The spy service operates in all areas where Iran has interests, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Central Asia, Africa, Austria, Azerbaijan, Croatia, France, Georgia, Germany, Turkey, Britain, and the Americas, including the United States.
Iranian activities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela have raised alarm among U.S. government officials.
To advance its goals, MOIS recruits individuals regardless of their beliefs, including Arabs or Jews to spy in Israel,” the report said. One MOIS deputy minister, Saeed Emami, was appointed to a key post despite being Jewish by birth.
According to the report, Iranian intelligence is expanding operations in the Middle East and Mediterranean by setting up electronic eavesdropping stations. “Two Iranian-Syrian [signals intelligence] stations funded by the IRGC reportedly have been active since 2006, one in the al-Jazirah region in northern Syria and the other on the Golan Heights,” the report said, noting that additional stations were planned for northern Syria.''
According to the report, Russia was active in training Iranian intelligence operations beginning in the 1990s. The Russian SVR spy service, the successor to the Soviet KGB, trained hundreds of MOIS operatives despite the two agencies’ different doctrines. The cooperation was based on both nations’ goal of limiting U.S. political influence in Central Asia and efforts to stifle ethnic unrest. “The SVR trained not only hundreds of Iranian agents but also numerous Russian agents inside Iran to equip Iranian intelligence with signals equipment in their headquarters compound,” the report said. Iran’s intelligence is also cooperating with al Qaeda despite the Sunni-Shiite differences in religious ideology.
Iranians engage in two types of terrorist attacks,” the report said. “One type includes sabotage, espionage, and bombing of target locations, while the other involves the assassination of dissidents of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Both are perpetrated inside and outside of Iran.
For human spying, the Iranians are “extremely active,” the report said, noting a highly organized and focused program against nearby states. The Iranians have also deployed many agents to influence the government in Baghdad. Other Iranian intelligence networks have been discovered in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Turkey.''
Iran created a special counterintelligence unit in response called Oghab 2, or Eagle 2, devoted to protecting the nuclear program from attack and sabotage.
Article here:
http://freebeacon.com/iran-spy-network-30000-strong/
​Whole Pentagon report here:
http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/LOC-MOIS.pdf
