{"id":21253,"date":"2021-02-23T20:03:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=21253"},"modified":"2021-02-23T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:03:58","slug":"iran-regimes-long-history-of-killing-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/02\/iran-regimes-long-history-of-killing-dissidents\/21253\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Regime’s Long History of Killing Dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iran\u2019s regime terrorists assassinated the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>) in representative in Turkey, Zahra Rajabi, on February 20, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkish prosecutors said<\/a> that Iranian intelligence agent Reza Barzegar Masoumi pretended to be a Resistance supporter and led the assassins to the NCRI\u2019s Istanbul office. The MEK <\/a>has since said that the regime send a professional team to kill Rajabi and her aide Ali Moradi with silenced guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rajabi joined the Resistance in the final years of the Shah\u2019s rule and played a key role in revealing the mullahs\u2019 human rights abuses and oppressive measures. She was elected as an NCRI member in 1995 and appointed by the NCRI President Maryam Rajavi to her role in Turkey, where she helped Iranians refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The regime\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS<\/a>) initially planned to abduct her, something that then- president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and MOIS <\/a>Minister Ali Fallahian agreed upon.\u00a0 But just days later, the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) decided to go ahead with the murder plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially, they tried to kidnap her, presumably to kill her elsewhere, but this plot was foiled by the presence of other people, so four days later, the regime agents arrived to kill her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkish authorities have named the following diplomats as being directly involved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n