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List of Iranian assassinations refers to a list of alleged and confirmedassassinations, reported to have been conducted by theIslamic Republic of Iran and previously by thePahlavi Dynasty, as well as and several resistance opposition groups.

It includes attempts on notable persons who were reported to have been specifically targeted by the various Iraniansecurity andintelligence, most notably Kurdish dissidents of theKurdish Democratic Party of Iran in 1980s and 1990s.

Prior to the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, theOrganization of Intelligence and National Security also allegedly performed a number of political motivated assassinations against dissidents and opposition leaders.

By Pahlavi regime (1953–1979)

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DateCityCountryTargetPositionKiller
12 August 1970BaghdadIraqTeymur BakhtiarFormer founder ofSAVAK.AllegedSAVAK operation.
29 June 1976IranHamid AshrafLeader ofOrganization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.ASAVAK operation.

By the Islamic Republic of Iran

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DateCityCountryTargetPositionKiller
7 December 1979ParisFranceShahriar ShafiqHead of the Iran Azad Group, nephew of the lastShah of IranMuslim Liberation Group
22 July 1980Bethesda, MarylandUnited StatesAli Akbar TabatabaeiPresident of the Iran Freedom Foundation, former press attache to the Iranian embassyDawud Salahuddin
7 February 1984ParisFranceGholam Ali Oveisiformer Chief Commander of theImperial Iranian Armed ForcesIslamic Jihad Organization
19 May 1987ViennaAustriaHamid Reza ChitgarRepresentative ofLabor Party of IranSuspected Iranian agents
13 July 1989Abdul Rahman GhassemlouHead of theDemocratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Abdullah Ghaderi Azar[1][2]Assistant to the Head ofDemocratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
1 April 1990NynäshamnSwedenKarim MohammedzadehIranian Kurdish dissidentReza Taslimi
24 April 1990Coppet  SwitzerlandKazem RajaviRepresentative of theNational Council of Resistance of Iran.Former Ambassador of Iran to the UNSuspected Iranian agents
15 August 1990KonyaTurkeyElî KaşifpûrMember central committee of theKurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
6 September 1990VästeråsSwedenEfat GhaziMember of theKurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
11 July 1991TsukubaJapanHitoshi Igarashi (allegedly)[3]Japanese translator ofSalman Rushdie'sthe Satanic Verses
6 August 1991SuresnesFranceShapour BakhtiarformerPrime Minister of Iran. Head of theNational Resistance Movement of IranAli Vakili Rad
7 August 1992BonnGermanyFereydoun FarrokhzadIranian dissidentSuspected Iranian agents
17 September 1992BerlinSadegh SharafkandiHead of theDemocratic Party of Iranian KurdistanMykonos restaurant assassinations
Fattah AbdoliOne of the leaders of theDemocratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
Homayoun Ardalan
Nouri Dehkordi[4]
6 July 1996StockholmSwedenKamran HedayatiIranian Kurdish dissidentSuspected Iranian agents
15 December 2015AlmereNetherlandsMohammad-Reza Kolahi SamadiPeople's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK)Suspected Iranian agents
29 April 2017IstanbulTurkeySaeed KarimianIranian television executive, owner ofDubai-basedGEM TVVAJA
8 November 2017The HagueNetherlandsAhmad Mola Nissi[5][6]Arab Struggle MovementSuspected Iranian agents
14 November 2019IstanbulTurkeyMasoud MolaviEx-Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps insider, whistleblowerSuspected Iranian agents

By Resistance Opposition groups

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DateCityCountryTargetDescriptionKiller
11 March 1946TehranIranAhmad KasraviIranianlinguist,historian andDemocrat Party memberFada'iyan-e Islam
5 November 1949Abdolhossein HazhirPrime Minister of Iran
7 March 1951Haj Ali Razmara
27 January 1965Hassan Ali Mansur
23 April 1979IranMohammad-Vali GharaniChief-of-Staff of theIranian ArmyForghan group
1 May 1979Morteza MotahhariPresident ofCouncil of Islamic Revolution
2 November 1979TabrizMohammad Ali Qazi TabatabaeiRepresentative of theSupreme Leader inEast AzerbaijanPeople's Mujahedin of Iran
28 June 1981TehranMosa KalantariMinistry of Roads & Urban Development
Mohammad BeheshtiChief Justice of Iran
Mohammad MontazeriMember of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards
30 August 1981Mohammad-Ali RajaiPresident of Iran
Mohammad-Javad BahonarPrime Minister of Iran
21 September 1981TabrizMir Asadollah MadaniRepresentative of theSupreme Leader inEast Azerbaijan
22 August 1998TehranAsadollah LajevardiIranian prosecutor
10 April 1999Ali Sayad ShiraziIranian Army Commander

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Gunmen Kill Kurdish Exiles Holding a Meeting in Vienna".The New York Times. 1989-07-15.ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved2025-06-12.
  2. ^"Kurdish leader killed in Vienna - UPI Archives".UPI. Retrieved2025-06-12.
  3. ^Komamura, Yoshishige."（3ページ目）迷宮入りの「悪魔の詩」訳者殺人、問題にされた2つのポイント【平成の怪事件簿】".デイリー新潮 (in Japanese). Retrieved13 August 2022.
  4. ^"Funeral of Kurdish politician in Berlin".The Independent. Archived fromthe original on 2022-07-09. Retrieved2025-06-12.
  5. ^Berg, Stephanie Van Den (2017-12-12)."Be careful, murdered Iranian activist's daughter tells European exiles".Reuters. Retrieved2025-06-12.
  6. ^"Three suspects arrested in connection with murder of Iranian activist in 2017 | NL Times".nltimes.nl. 2025-05-16. Retrieved2025-06-12.
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