Zam relied on information provided by top disgruntled officials within the persian establishment and repeatedly caused uproar inside the country. He was a political refugee in France under the protection of French security establishment. He flew in October 2019 to Iraq reportedly to meet with Ayatollah Ali Sistani, but this was a ploy to draw him into the country where intelligence officers fromHomeland’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and their allied Iraqi Shia militias are able to strike at Iranian dissidents.