HARARE - Iranian Security agencies are training thousands of Zimbabwe’s ruthless secret spy services personnel at a secret base in Tehran, a move likely to further increase the rift between the feisty Robert Mugabe and the Western nations, particulary the United States.

The Zimbabwe Mail can reveal that batches of both armed forces personnel and members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) have been undergoing rigorous training on counter-intelligency and ruthless methods on how to suppress street protests by Civic groups and opposition forces.

Robert Mugabe’s most trusted and loyal cabinet member, Didymus Mutasa is on a visit to Iran to monitor the programme he commissioned three years ago when he was Minister of State Security before the coalition government was signed.
Zimbabwean young men and women recruited from the notorious party youths porgramms are being sent every six months for intensive training programs that include technological and chemical warfare.

During the run-up to the violent and aborted June 2008 Presidential run-off, opposition supporters were abducted, tortured and had their flesh on buttocks "eaten" up by some deadly chemicals administered by Robert Mugabe’s Secret Police.
Also on the training program list are some IT specialists who are being trained to smoke out cyber activists and crack down on websites and social networks.

A report in the Wall ST Journal says, the Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.
Interviews with technology experts in Iran and outside the country say Irani

an efforts at monitoring Internet information go well beyond blocking access to Web sites or severing Internet connections.
The monitoring capability was provided, at least in part, by a joint venture of Siemens AG, the German conglomerate, and Nokia Corp., the Finnish cellphone company, in the second half of 2008, Ben Roome, a spokesman for the joint venture, confirmed.
Deep packet inspection involves inserting equipment into a flow of online data, from emails and Internet phone calls to images and messages on social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Every digitized packet of online data is deconstructed, examined for keywords and reconstructed within milliseconds.
The infiltration of Zimbabwean online traffic and websites expla

ins why Robert Mugabe has stripped off some functions from Nelson Chamisa’s Ministry of Information Technology and Communications. Chamisa is the spokesman of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
Iranian street protests in the Green Revolution or Sea of Green took place in 2009 after the presidential election on the back of alleged electoral fraud and in support of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi occurred in Tehran and other major cities in Iran and around the world.

The events have also been nicknamed the "Twitter Revolution" because of the protesters' reliance on Twitter and other social-networking Internet sites to communicate with each other
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran will help

Zimbabwe as much as possible in view of the sanctions imposed on Harare by the West.

Ahmadinejad made the remarks during a meeting with Zimbabwean Minister of State for Presidential Affairs Didymus Mutasa in Tehran on Monday.

The Islamic Republic will stand by Zimbabwe against "illegal pressure," he added.

Ahmadinejad said Iran has always condemned the illegal pressure imposed by hegemonistic powers meant to force the Zimbabweans to surrender.

He praised the African nation for its resistance against the odds and predicted that independent nations would have a bright future.

Ahmadinejad also called for the implementation of all the agreements signed by the two nations.

Mutasa relayed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's message to the Iranian president.

He also asked Iran to increase cooperation with Zimbabwe and to invest more in the country.
In February this year, Iran announced plans to set up a military base in Zimbabwe.
Iranian technicians and engineers are already in Zimbabwe setting up the first stages of the base which will begin as a Helicopter base.

In the past Robert Mugabe has accused the West of hypocrisy for condemning Iran's nuclear program and described the U.S-led military campaign in Iraq as "genocide".
Mugabe, himself at odds with the West over his forcible redistribution of white-owned farms and allegations of human rights abuse, said only those countries without nuclear weapons could sit in judgment over Iran.
Speaking to a visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Mugabe said, "There are those who are accusing you of what you do not have ... also accusing you of an intention which perhaps you do not have of wanting to have nuclear arms.
"And they have the nuclear arms, they have nuclear bombs, they have used them. Who is judging them for the genocide they committed, the genocide they are committing in Iraq today?" he said in remarks broadcast on Zimbabwe's state television.

By The Zimbabwe Mail