List of Iranian assassinations

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)

Date Place Target Description Action Killer
August 12, 1970  Iraq Teymur Bakhtiar Former founder of SAVAK. Shot with a pistol. Alleged SAVAK operation.
June 29, 1976  Iran Hamid Ashraf Leader of Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas. Shot. A SAVAK operation.

By the Islamic Republic of Iran

Date City Country Target Description Action Killer
7 December 1979 Paris  France Shahriar Shafiq Head of the Iran Azad Group, nephew of the last Shah of Iran shot twice in the head 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 shot Dawud Salahuddin
7 February 1984 Paris  France Gholam Ali Oveisi former Chief Commander of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces shot Islamic Jihad Organization
July 13, 1989 Vienna  Austria Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou Head of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan Shot from short range during meeting with Iranian diplomats Suspected Iranian agents
Abdullah Ghaderi Azar Assistant to the Head of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan Shot from short range during meeting with Iranian diplomats Suspected Iranian agents
24 April 1990 Coppet   Switzerland Kazem Rajavi Pepresentative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.Former Ambassador of Iran to the UN Killed with kitchen knive Suspected Iranian agents
6 August 1991 Suresnes  France Shapour Bakhtiar former Prime Minister of Iran.Head of the National Resistance Movement of Iran Killed with kitchen knive Suspected Iranian agents
1 April 1990 Nynäshamn  Sweden Karim Mohammedzadeh Iranian Kurdish dissident shot Suspected Iranian agents
September 17, 1992 Berlin  Germany Sadegh Sharafkandi Head of the PDKI Assassinated in the Mykonos Greek restaurant Kazem Darabi, an Iranian resident in Berlin; Abdolraham Banihashemi, an Iranian intelligence officer; and Lebanese Abbas Hossein Rhayel.
Fattah Abdoli One of the leaders of the PDKI
Homayoun Ardalan
Nouri Dehkordi
6 July 1996 Stockholm  Sweden Kamran Hedayati Iranian Kurdish dissident letter bomb Suspected Iranian agents

By Resistance Opposition groups

Date City Country Target Description Action Killer
5 November 1949 Tehran  Iran Abdolhossein Hazhir Prime Minister of Iran Shot Fada'iyan-e Islam
March 7, 1951 Haj Ali Razmara Prime Minister of Iran Shot Fada'iyan-e Islam
27 January 1965 Hassan Ali Mansur Prime Minister of Iran shot three times Fada'iyan-e Islam
1 May 1979 Morteza Motahhari President of Council of Islamic Revolution shot Forghan group
2 November 1979 Tabriz  Iran Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan Shot People's Mujahedin of Iran
1981 Tehran Mosa Kalantari Ministry of Roads & Urban Development bomb attack Tudeh Party of Iran
30 August 1981 Mohammad-Javad Bahonar Prime Minister of Iran People's Mujahedin of Iran
30 August 1981 Mohammad-Ali Rajai President of Iran People's Mujahedin of Iran
28 June 1981 Mohammad Beheshti Chief Justice of Iran People's Mujahedin of Iran
28 June 1981 Mohammad Montazeri member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards People's Mujahedin of Iran
21 September 1981 Tabriz Mir Asadollah Madani Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan Shot Mojahedin Khalq Organization
22 August 1998 Tehran Asadollah Lajevardi Iranian prosecutor Killed with Uzi submachine gun People's Mujahedin of Iran

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