1. National Council of Resistance press conference

2. Tilt down from screen to Mohammad Mohaddessin, head of National Council of Resistance foreign affairs committee

3. Cutaway press

4. Wide of press conference with Mohaddessin

5. List of alleged names of Iranian sponsored agents in Iraq

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammad Mohaddessin, Head of National Council of Resistance foreign affairs committee

"In this document you have 31,690 mercenaries from the Iranian regime. The nationality of all these are Iraqi, but they are paid by the Iranian regime.''

7. Hand on document

8. Various of press

9. Mid shot Mohaddessin with document

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammad Mohaddessin, Head of National Council of Resistance foreign affairs committee

"The Iranian regime has a very clear strategy. The Iranian regime wants to dominate Iraq, to have a proxy government in Iraq. The Iranian regime needs Iraq as an introduction to dominate all the Islamic region, especially the Middle East. Iran wants to have Iraq and then Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other countries."

11. Press with documents

12. Close up of names on documents, pan

13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammad Mohaddessin, head of National Council of Resistance foreign affairs committee

"The money which the Iranian regime is paying to dominate Iraq is (b) billions of (US) dollars and according to our detailed information-through the first 30 months after overthrowing the previous government in Iraq, the Iranian regime paid at least six (b) billion (US) dollars for its policies, for its activities in Iraq."

14. Wide of press conference

An Iranian opposition group based in France claimed on Friday that Iran has thousands of paid operatives working in neighbouring Iraq, releasing the names of nearly 32-thousand people it alleged were involved.

The allegations from the National Council of Resistance could not be independently verified.

The Council is the political wing of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, which advocates the overthrow of Iran's Islamic government.

Mohammad Mohaddessin, who heads the Council's foreign affairs committee, alleged that thousands of Iraqis are working on Iran's behalf.

"The clerical regime, faced with intensifying domestic crisis and isolation inside Iran, views its only chance for survival in the establishment of a proxy regime in Iraq," Mohaddessin said in Paris.

The council released the alleged names, and alleged dates of recruitment by Iran and the supposed salaries of 31,690 Iraqis.

''The Iranian regime wants to dominate Iraq, to have a proxy government in Iraq. The Iranian regime needs Iraq as an introduction to dominate all the Islamic region, especially the Middle East,'' Mohaddessin said

Mohaddessin claimed that Iran had paid (b) billions of dollars to pursue these alleged aims.

''The Iranian regime paid at least six (b) billion (US) dollars for its policies, for its activities in Iraq."

Mohaddessin said the list was compiled in 2003 and 2004 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and obtained by the council's "sources" within it.

The Iranian government refutes that it has agents working on its behalf in Iraq.