The article, by one Maximilian Wechsler, quoted Madhi as saying that he supports Iranians' right to protest peacefully against the government, and that both President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi were "crazy.
Laura Rozen, writing in Politico.com, could find no references to Madhi being a former Iran intelligence chief other than "those generated by the article itself;" and author Maximilian Wechsler, was "a former documented Czech-Australian double agent and informant.
"[2] A year later, Madhi appeared in a A Diamond for Deception, a documentary by Iranian state television aired just a few days before the second anniversary of 2009 protest over the disputed presidential election of President Ahmadinejad.
The documentary describes Madhi as "a double agent" who infiltrated the Iranian opposition movement and foreign intelligence units, and succeeded in meeting US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and US vice president Joe Biden, among other western officials.
Madhi introduces himself to the opposition as "a diamond dealer" in the documentary, and approaches foreign governments under the guise of "a top official wanting to defect from the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard and claiming thousands of his colleagues were ready to join him.