Iran’s paramilitary forces Basij have been assigned in various cells in the notorious Evin Prison to harass and intimidate political prisoners.
Ruhollah Tavasoli, commander of the Basij forces and the head of ward 7 in this facility have placed drug smugglers into hall no. 12 in order to disrupt a political climate of the cells.
Tavasoli was seeking to insult the political prisoners and gain information into conditions inside the prison hall. Tavasoli had hired these drug smugglers and informants in an attempt to also humiliate political prisoners.
These measures are all orchestrated by Tavasoli and Mehrdad Tahmasebi, the so-called lawyer of hall 12, who are both agents of the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK) representative in Evin Prison. Mehrdad Tahmasebi himself is a prisoner behind bars for fraud. Back when Ali Ashraf Rashidi was warden and the MOIS/VEVAK agent of Evin Prison, Tahmasebi was missioned to station in hall 12 along with a number of financial prisoners in order to act as informants and humiliate the political prisoners by describing them as spies and traitors to the country and establishment.