List of Iranian assassinations
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List of Iranian assassinations refers to a list of alleged and confirmed assassinations, reported to have been conducted by the Islamic Republic of Iran and previously by the Pahlavi Dynasty and several underground Resistance Opposition groups.
It includes attempts on notable persons who were reported to have been specifically targeted by the various Iranian security and intelligence, most notably Kurdish dissidents of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran in 1980s and 1990s.
Prior to the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, the Organization of Intelligence and National Security also allegedly performed a number of political motivated assassinations against dissidents and opposition leaders.
By Pahlavi regime (1953–1979)
[edit]| Date | City | Country | Target | Position | Killer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 1970 | Baghdad |  Iraq
|
Teymur Bakhtiar | Former founder of SAVAK. | Alleged SAVAK operation. |
| 29 June 1976 |  Iran
|
Hamid Ashraf | Leader of Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas. | A SAVAK operation. |
By the Islamic Republic of Iran
[edit]| Date | City | Country | Target | Position | Killer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 December 1979 | Paris |  France
|
Shahriar Shafiq | Head of the Iran Azad Group, nephew of the last Shah of Iran | Muslim Liberation Group |
| 22 July 1980 | Bethesda, Maryland |  United States
|
Ali Akbar Tabatabaei | President of the Iran Freedom Foundation, former press attache to the Iranian embassy | Dawud Salahuddin |
| 7 February 1984 | Paris | France
|
Gholam Ali Oveisi | former Chief Commander of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces | Islamic Jihad Organization |
| 19 May 1987 | Vienna |  Austria
|
Hamid Reza Chitgar | Representative of Labor Party of Iran | Suspected Iranian agents |
| 13 July 1989 | Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou | Head of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan | |||
| Abdullah Ghaderi Azar | Assistant to the Head of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan | ||||
| 1 April 1990 | Nynäshamn |  Sweden
|
Karim Mohammedzadeh | Iranian Kurdish dissident | Reza Taslimi |
| 24 April 1990 | Coppet |  Switzerland
|
Kazem Rajavi | Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.Former Ambassador of Iran to the UN | Suspected Iranian agents |
| 15 August 1990 | Konya |  Turkey
|
Elî Kaşifpûr | Member central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran | |
| 6 September 1990 | Västerås | Sweden
|
Efat Ghazi | Member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran | |
| 6 August 1991 | Suresnes | France
|
Shapour Bakhtiar | former Prime Minister of Iran. Head of the National Resistance Movement of Iran | Ali Vakili Rad |
| 7 August 1992 | Bonn |  Germany
|
Fereydoun Farrokhzad | Iranian dissident | Suspected Iranian agents |
| 17 September 1992 | Berlin | Sadegh Sharafkandi | Head of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan | Mykonos restaurant assassinations | |
| Fattah Abdoli | One of the leaders of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan | ||||
| Homayoun Ardalan | |||||
| Nouri Dehkordi | |||||
| 6 July 1996 | Stockholm | Sweden
|
Kamran Hedayati | Iranian Kurdish dissident | Suspected Iranian agents |
| 15 December 2015 | Almere |  Netherlands
|
Mohammad-Reza Kolahi Samadi | People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) | Suspected Iranian agents |
| 29 April 2017 | Istanbul | Turkey
|
Saeed Karimian | Iranian television executive, owner of Dubai-based GEM TV | VAJA |
| 8 November 2017 | The Hague | Netherlands
|
Ahmad Mola Nissi | Arab Struggle Movement | Suspected Iranian agents |
