Diplomats desert mullahs' ranks

According to reliable information, Ali Ashraf Mojtahed Shabestari, the Khomeini regime's ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, has defected from the regime and requested political asylum. Another of the regime's diplomats in Pakistan and at least two others in European countries have done the same in protest.

In Germany, three diplomats who were planning on defection were hoaxed back to Tehran. Six of the embassy staff were dismissed in this connection.

Fearing further defections and disbandment of its embassies, the mullahs' religious, terrorist dictatorship has dispatched a mission from the Ministry of Intelligence to Europe to review the situation of the personnel at each embassy. The mission's assignment is to prevent the desertion wave and send back to Iran those elements who are recognized as suspicious.

Diplomatic defections is subject of hot discussions within the regime. One close associate of Khamenei described them as consequence of the "advances of the Mojahedin and the stagnancy of the diplomacy of the Islamic Republic," which have demoralized the Foreign Ministry staff and caused their attraction to the "opponents of the regime."

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
December 3, 1996

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