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### Viewing cable 09ISTANBUL352, IRAN: REGIME PRESSURE REACHING SOME ISTANBUL

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09ISTANBUL352 | 2009-09-15 09:09 | 2010-12-29 21:09 | SECRET | Consulate Istanbul

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    VZCZCXRO5656
    PP RUEHBC RUEHDE RUEHDIR RUEHKUK RUEHTRO
    DE RUEHIT #0352/01 2580952
    ZNY SSSSS ZZH
    P 150952Z SEP 09
    FM AMCONSUL ISTANBUL
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9187
    INFO RUCNIRA/IRAN COLLECTIVE PRIORITY

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    S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 ISTANBUL 000352

    SIPDIS

    LONDON FOR MURRAY; BERLIN FOR ROSENSTOCK-STILLER; BAKU FOR
    MCCRENSKY; ASHGABAT FOR TANGBORN; BAGHDAD FOR POPAL; DUBAI
    FOR IRPO

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/14/2034
    TAGS: PINS PREL PGOV PINR IR TU
    SUBJECT: IRAN: REGIME PRESSURE REACHING SOME ISTANBUL
    CONTACTS

    REF: (A) ISTANBUL 47 (B) ISTANBUL 94 (C) ISTANBUL 138
    (D) ISTANBUL 189 (E) ISTANBUL 207 (F)
    ISTANBUL 244 (G) ISTANBUL 290

    Classified By: ConGen Istanbul Deputy Principal Officer Win Dayton; Rea
    son 1.5 (d).

    ¶1.  (S)  Several Istanbul-based contacts of ConGen Istanbul's
    NEA Iran Watcher have separately cautioned us in the past
    week that they been asked (or warned) by Iranian officials to
    cease contact with "American diplomats asking questions about
    Iran."  In one case, a key contact -- XXXXXXXXXXXX-- is returning temporarily to Iran to
    "clear everything up."  Comment:  A number of State
    Iran-Watchers' Iran-based contacts have suffered harassment,
    intimidation, and detention since the post-election
    crackdown.  Reporting from IRPO Dubai and others underscores
    the likelihood that regime pressure on Iranians with U.S. or
    western links will only worsen.  These recent warnings to our
    Istanbul-based contacts, however, may represent a new element
    in this campaign of intimidation, and reconfirms that the
    regime pays attention to our outreach efforts outside Iran.
    In response, we will take additional steps to protect local
    contacts and stay vigilant against regime efforts to track
    our interactions with them, while redoubling efforts to
    expand the range of Turkey-based contacts willing to share
    Iran-related insights.  End comment.

    ¶2.  (S) In the past week, we heard separately from three
    valuable Istanbul-based contacts that they each received
    recent requests or warnings from Iranian officials to limit
    or cease contacts with American diplomats in Istanbul.

    ¶3.  XXXXXXXXXXXX

    ¶4.  (S) A UK national who has worked as the Istanbul
    correspondent for Iran's satellite news channel "Press TV"
    since summer 2007 and has been willing to share insights into
    Press TV and Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)
    editorial and press operations (ref d), told us that her
    Tehran-based editor warned her last week to stop having
    contact with "any American diplomats there asking about
    Iran."  She speculated that Iranian consulate officials in
    Istanbul may have seen her talking to ConGen Istanbul's Iran
    Watcher at any number of recent functions and, as they are
    presumably aware of ConGen Istanbul Iran Watcher's portfolio,
    they may have sent word back to Press TV management to warn
    her off of such contacts.  She told us her response to her
    editor was that as a journalist her job is to gather
    information from all informed sources in Istanbul including
    diplomats, and that any contact she has with U.S. or other
    diplomats in Istanbul is strictly in support of her own
    reporting.  She told us that because she is a UK citizen and
    living in Turkey, and considers herself one of Press TV's
    best international correspondents, she is not afraid of
    pressure from Press TV management since "the worst they can
    do is fire me, which they won't."  (Comment:  In an incident
    that may or may not have been related, but that this contact
    found suspicious, her apartment was broken into on June 26
    and her laptop was stolen, though her purse, jewelry, and
    other valuables were left alone.)  She expressed a
    willingness to continue occasional contacts with us, though

    ISTANBUL 00000352  002 OF 002

    we agreed not to have contacts at conferences or other fora
    where Iranian consulate officials might be present.

    ¶5. (S) We recently contacted the coordinator for the
    Turkish-Iran Business Council (ref b), responsible for
    setting up the TIBC's frequent meetings and trade fairs with
    Iranian counterparts.  He is a Turkish national who has been
    a helpful contact since late 2007.  We contacted him to
    request a meeting with the TIBC to discuss recent
    developments in Turkish-Iranian commercial relations, in
    advance of a biannual "Turkish-Iranian Business Council
    Forum" next month in Tehran and Mashhad.  Our contact told us
    by email that two members of the TIBC's executive board were
    queried by "Iranian acquaintances of theirs" (NFI) at a
    Ramadan Iftar dinner ceremony at the Iranian Ambassador to
    Turkey's residence last week about the TIBC's contacts with
    the US Consulate in Istanbul, including what specific
    questions we have asked the TIBC about Iran-Turkey commerce.
    Our contact did not know how the Iranian Embassy was aware of
    the TIBC's occasional meetings with us.  (Comment: We have
    met about six times with TIBC executive board members,
    including a November 2008 courtesy call on the board by
    NEA/IR's Office Director; additionally, ConGen Istanbul's
    Iran Watcher has met numerous times socially with this
    contact, usually for coffee at a local cafe.  End comment.)
    He said a TIBC board member told him they brushed aside the
    Iranian queries, but they also cautioned him that the TIBC
    needs to be more careful in ensuring that its Iranian
    partners are not given a reason "to doubt our commitment to
    expanding bilateral commerce while staying out of politics."
    This contact pledged to try to help set up a meeting for us
    with the TIBC executive board, but declined an offer to meet
    socially in the near-term.

    Comment
    ------

    ¶6.  (S) Comment:  A number of State Department "Iran
    Watchers" and others have seen both professional contacts and
    friends in Iran suffer harassment, intimidation and in many
    cases detention and worse, especially following the recent,
    post-election crackdown on Mousavi supporters and others
    activists.  Reporting from IRPO Dubai and elsewhere
    underscores the likelihood that the regime will only
    intensify the crackdown against Iranians who have U.S. and
    western contacts.  However, these recent warnings to our
    Istanbul-based contacts may represent a new element in this
    campaign of intimidation.  These examples are a clear
    indication that the Iranian regime is aware of at least some
    of our Istanbul-based contacts' interactions with us, and
    willing to use varying degrees of pressure -- even against
    non-Iranians over whom it has some leverage -- to try or
    limit to stop further contact with us.  (Overt Iranian
    physical intimidation against contacts in Turkey, however, is
    unlikely, as it would cross a red-line not crossed since the
    GOT expelled then-Iranian Ambassador Mottaki -- now Iran's
    Foreign Minister -- in 1989 for playing a likely role in the
    kidnapping and/or assassination of several dozen Iranian
    dissidents in Turkey in the mid and late 1980s.)

    ¶7.  (S) Engaging with Iran-related contacts, even in Turkey,
    has always been a sensitive undertaking, but now it is
    becoming even more so.  In response, we make every effort to
    try to protect our local contacts, take additional measures
    to ensure confidentiality in our meetings with them, and
    remain vigilant against Iranian efforts to track our
    interactions with them.  But we will also redouble efforts to
    maintain, and even expand, the range of contacts in Turkey
    willing to brave such threats to share valuable insights with
    us.  End comment.
    WIENER

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