History
Ministry of Intelligence and Security [MOIS]
Vezarat-e Ettela'at va Amniat-e Keshvar VEVAK

December 08, 1997

"..Little public information exists on SAVAK's successor agency, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security [Vezarat-e Ettela'at va Amniat-e Keshvar - VEVAK ], initially known by the acronym SAVAMA. The agency's first director was Major General Fardust, who was arrested in December 1985 for being a "Soviet informer." But after this major arrest the revolutionary government's keen desire to gain an upper hand over leftist guerrilla organizations may have influenced certain IRP leaders to relax their previously unrelenting pursuit of military intelligence personnel.

A 1984 reorganization of the security organization led by Mohammadi Rayshahri, concurrently the head of the Army Military Revolutionary Tribunal, created the Ministry of Information and Security which assumed the role formerly played by SAVAMA. Key religious leaders, including Majlis speaker Hashemi-Rafsanjani, insisted on recalling former agents to help the regime eliminate domestic opposition. Consequently, some intelligence officers and low-ranking SAVAK and army intelligence officials were asked to return to government service because of their specialized knowledge of the Iranian left. Others had acquired in-depth knowledge of Iraq's Baath Party and proved to be invaluable in helping decision makers.

Although it was impossible to verify, observers speculated that some of SAVAK's intelligence-gathering operations were turned over to VEVAK. However, the ideological underpinnings of the new agency were radicallyl different from its Imperial predecessor. 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. "exporting revolution."

http://www.ciagents.com/article.php?sid=160
by Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) at http://globalresearch.ca, 8 October 2001

The URL of this article is is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html

".."Along with the weapons, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and VEVAK intelligence operatives entered Bosnia in large numbers, along with thousands of mujahedin ("holy warriors") from across the Muslim world.."

http://www.turkishdailynews.com/past_probe/09_13_96/foreign.htm
13 September, 1996

"..The Ministry of Intelligence and Security (Vezarat-e Ettela'at va Amniyat-e Keshvar, or VEVAK) headed by former revolutionary court judge Hojjat al-Islam Ali Fallahian, plays the lead role in organizing and executing operations abroad," [Midle East Analyst Michael] Eisenstadt said. "VEVAK was behind the August 1991 murder of exiled former premier Shahpour Bakhtiar in France; in fact Fallahian personally recruited Bakhtiar's killers..."

http://timelines.ws/countries/GERM1991_2001.HTML

"..1992 Sep, In Germany Sadiq Sarafkindi and three other exiled Iranian Kurdish dissidents were slain at the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin. In 1997 a German court concluded that the murders were sponsored by the top political leadership of Iran and orchestrated by a secretive "Committee for special Operations," and carried out by the Iranian Vevak security service..."
(SFC, 4/11/97, p.A1)