Habilian.com

Habilian.com (whois) first registered on January 9, 2005, is the website for the Habilian Association, which describes itself as a human rights NGO that claims Iran has been the “biggest victim of terrorism.” 

The Habilian website offers no address or phone number.  The organization’s website domain registration is false.  The given address is “esteghrar tower, klp, klp, MY 12345.”

The director of Habilian Association is Seyyed Mohammad Javad Hasheminejad.  No biographical information is provided on him or on other members of the organization.

The website displays numerous articles by Habilian, as well as from government-run news services (Press TV, Fars News Agency and Tehran Times) and MOIS sites (Nejat Society, Iran-Interlink.com). 

Below are examples of Habilian articles that appear on other MOIS attack websites:

Iran-Interlink.org

• “Iraqi Lawmaker: Iraqis’ Wounds Made by MKO Not Healed Yet.”  Ashraf News.  Habilian Association.  (3/5/2013).

IranDidban.com

• “Albania Is In America’s Pocket.” (No date)
• “Mukhtar Army Lying in Ambush for MKO.”  (No date)
• “Ex-USAF Lieutenant: Rajavi Knows Little About Democracy.” (No date)
• “Iraqi MP: MKO Debilitated in Iraq.”  (No date)
• “American Analyst: MEK Is an Israeli Front Organization.” (No date)

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Massoud Khodabandeh

Massoud Khodabandeh was born in Tehran in 1956.  A year after finishing high school (1975), he traveled to Britain to attend Newcastle Polytechnic, majoring in electrical engineering. 

Massoud said he joined the Muslim Iranian Students Society in 1981, which supported the PMOI.  He claims he traveled to Kurdistan to help set up radio equipment to broadcast “Radio Mojahed” into Iran, and in 1986 traveled to PMOI camps on the Iraq-Iran border. 

In 1990, Massoud wrote to the PMOI about his return to drugs and lack of motivation to continue.

"Before I approached the organization (PMOI), among the thousand other things I did, I also used drugs...When I went to the (Iraq-Iran) border, I gradually forgot about the habit.  But, during this period that I have been abroad, I feel...that I am backtracking day by day. I use different methods to escape the reality I'm in, from sleeping...to doing all the wrong things, impeding efforts, and in the end, again drugs.  Right now, I don't know why, but during this time, I have gone back to drugs on a number of occasions."

In 1993, Massoud announced his intention to leave the PMOI and he returned to Europe.  He met Anne Singleton in 1997 and they married soon thereafter. 

Massoud said he worked as a telecom engineer for several years.  In 1998, he traveled to Singapore for the International Labour Confederation, where he met representatives of the MOIS, according to Ebriham, his brother:

“It was then that Massoud Khodabandeh was recruited and began to act as an agent of the Ministry of Intelligence. His instructions were to act against the Iranian opposition and refugees living in Britain and other parts of Europe."1

 In 2001, Khodabandeh and Singleton established the website Iran-Interlink. 

In November 2005, Khodabandeh tried to use Iran-Interlink to organize a meeting in a building of the British Parliament to distribute information about the PMOI.  “They were not ultimately permitted to hold the meeting, because of disquiet amongst Parliamentarians, and moved the meeting to a hotel."2  Lord Corbett issued the following statement on the incident:

"The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom has been informed that known agents of the Iranian Ministry known as Iran-Interlink, a suspected group related to the mullahs’ regime, are supposed to have a conference on November 10, 2005, in Fielden House in Westminster.  These people have been dispatched to justify the Iranian regime President’s remarks inciting terrorism….Their hysteric accusations about the People’s Mohahedin Organization of Iran is indicative of the success of the Iranian resistance in revealing nuclear deception of the mullahs, their responsibility for killing British military forces in Iraq, and increasing human rights abuses."3

In 2008, Khodabandeh created a company called Middle East Strategy Consultants.  He is the director and Singleton is billed as the assistant director.  The company states it can “provide start-up, management, and public relations for a variety of projects.” 

Khodabandeh claims the company’s offices “are found throughout North America, European cities, as well as major Middle Eastern Capitals.”  The only address listed, however, is a post office box in Leeds, UK.

Ebriham Khodabandel

AKA – Ibrahim, Abrahim

On November 12, 2002, Ebrahim submitted an official affidavit to the Proscribed Organizations Appeals Commission (POAC), a British court.1 In the affidavit, he said he first began to suspect Anne Singleton had links to the Iranian clerical regime four years earlier. 

“My suspicions regarding my sister-in-law arose from the following chain of events.  About four years ago (that is, in 1998), I received a number of urgent telephone calls from people I knew in the office of the International Red Cross in Bagdad. 

“I was told that an urgent message was waiting for me from my mother (who lives in Iran).  I found it very strange that she had sent me a message to the Red Cross in Bagdad … because it was easy for my mother to contact me, whether directly or through my brother Massoud….I then spoke to my mother in Iran, and asked why she had left this message for me.  She said that my brother Massoud and his wife, Anne, had asked her to, and had told about PMOI members being ill-treated in Iraq, and prevented from leaving Iraq….I found it extraordinary that my brother would do this….”

"I then learned that Anne Khodabandeh had travelled to Iran… I found that surprising because, generally speaking, those Iranians (or their spouses) who are opponents of the regime, do not travel to Iran under any circumstances…

"Then early this year [2002], when I was again in Iraq, I received another call from someone I knew at the International Red Cross office in Baghdad.  I was again told that there was an urgent message waiting for me. When I went to collect this message, I discovered that it was from my daughter… I called my daughter from Baghdad and asked her who had asked her to send a letter to me…she told me it was Anne Khodabandeh…I considered Anne Khodabandeh’s motivation to be suspect…I believe that Anne Khodabandeh is seeking to give the world the impression that I am one of the people whom the Iranian regime, and its agents, says are being held against their will by thePMOI."2

On a visit to his daughter in Birmingham, Ebrahim Khodabandeh saw his brother and sister in law.  He said in the affidavit:

"Anne Khodabandeh told me quite openly that she had visited Iran a few months before, showed me her photographs, and told me that during her visit she had been to Khomeini’s grave. I found this an incredible statement from someone who purports, through her website, to be concerned with human rights."3

Ebrahim said his mother had been contacted in 1997 by the MOIS.  They wanted her to get in touch with Massoud and pass along information that he had been pardoned and could return to Iran.   The MOIS later contacted Ebrahim’s mother and said they were aware that Massoud had married a foreign national and he wanted to stay in England.  The MOIS said there was no problem.4

Ebrahim said after Massoud left the PMOI, their mother was allowed to travel to Britain three times over a six-year period. 

“The first time Massoud was in a very bad financial situation and was living with the help of my old friend in Newcastle.  At the time Anne Singleton was in London.  But the third time, he had purchased a big home and this is while his wife was not working.”5

When Ebrahim and Jamil Bassam, a member of the PMOI, traveled on April 18, 2003 to Syria to meet relatives, they were arrested by authorities.  Ebrahim and Bassam were then illegally transported on a Syrian Airways flight on June 12 to Tehran.  Days later, Ebrahim’s mother received a telephone call from the MOIS informing her that Ebrahim was in Evin Prison.

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Iran-Interlink.org

Registrant: iran-interlink
22 West Park Drive
LEEDS, LS16 5BL
GB
Domain name: IRAN-INTERLINK.COM
Administrative Contact:
Khodabandeh, Anne  (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
22 West Park Drive
LEEDS, LS16 5BL
GB 0113 278 0503 Fax: 0113 278 0503
Technical Contact:
Khodabandeh, Anne  (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
22 West Park Drive
LEEDS, LS16 5BL
GB
0113 278 0503   Fax: 0113 278 0503
Registrar of Record: Easyspace Ltd.
Record last updated on 18-Dec-2012.
Record expires on 17-Jan-2015.
Record created on 17-Jan-2002.
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