Iran state sponsor of terrorism after cold war era<\/p>\n
Iran state sponsor of terrorism is the subject of many articles in the International Mass Media. The Iranian regime is very intensely involved in international terrorism, and that is why it is generally known as a Iran state sponsor of terrorism<\/u><\/strong> worldwide.<\/p>\n \u201cIran\u2019s Deadly Diplomats\u201d is the topic of an article written by MATTHEW LEVITT at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.<\/p>\n Reports indicate that the main targets of all of the Iranian regime\u2019s terrorist activities are the members of the principal Iranian opposition, the NCRI and MEK.<\/p>\n Following is an excerpt of this article:<\/p>\n Iran state sponsor of terrorism<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/mahdavi85\/status\/1029462277139976193<\/p>\n August 2018<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n For decades, Tehran has been dispatching operatives to Europe to carry out assassinations and other acts of terrorism.<\/em><\/p>\n An Iranian diplomat accredited to Tehran\u2019s embassy in Vienna, Austria, is arrested in Germany and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and activity as a foreign agent. Authorities suspect the diplomat, Assadollah Assadi, hired an Iranian couple living in Belgium to carry out a bomb plot targeting a rally of about 4,0001<\/sup><\/strong><\/a>Iranian dissidents at the Villepinte Congress Center2<\/sup><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0near Paris and provided them with 500 grams of TATP explosives at a meeting in Luxembourg in late June 2018.3<\/sup><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0The target was the annual meeting of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which is the umbrella political organization including the Mujahedeen-Khalq, or MEK \u2026.<\/p>\n According to German prosecutors, Assadi was no run-of-the-mill diplomat but rather an Iranian intelligence officer operating under diplomatic cover. In a statement, prosecutors tied Assadi to Iran\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), whose tasks \u201cprimarily include the intensive observation and combatting of opposition groups inside and outside Iran. one senior State Department official made Washington\u2019s concerns very clear:<\/p>\n In March 2018, Albanian authorities arrested two Iranian operatives on terrorism charges after being caught allegedly surveilling a location where Iranian New Year (Nowruz) celebrations were about to begin\u2026<\/p>\n In other cases, Iranian diplomats involved in terrorism or surveillance of possible targets for attack were quietly arrested and deported. In April 2013, for example, two Iranian intelligence officers posted to Bosnia and Herzegovina as diplomats were expelled from the country after being involved in espionage and \u201cconnections to terrorism,\u201d according to information prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center\u2026<\/p>\n According to a 1987 U.S. intelligence community assessment, several organizations within the Iranian government are involved in terrorism\u2026Iranian diplomats were deeply involved in the 1992 and 1994 bombings of the Israeli embassy and AMIA Jewish community center, respectively, in Buenos Aires.16<\/sup><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0But they have a long track record of just this kind of activity across Europe as well.<\/p>\n Iran state sponsor of terrorism<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Looking Back at Iran\u2019s Dissident Hit List<\/strong><\/p>\n Between 1979 and 1994, the CIA reported that Iran \u201cmurdered Iranian defectors and dissidents in West Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Turkey.\u201d17<\/sup><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Overall, more than 60 individuals were targeted in assassination attempts.18<\/sup><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0In many cases, Hezbollah members functioned as the logistics experts or gunmen in these plots\u2026The first successful assassination of an Iranian dissident in Western Europe occurred in 1984. On February 7 that year, General Gholam Ali Oveissi and his brother were fatally shot on a Paris street by what French police described as \u201cprofessional assassins.<\/p>\n On July 13, 1989, Dr. Abdolrahman Ghassemlou, secretary-general of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI); Abdollah Ghaeri-Azar, the PDKI\u2019s European representative; and Fazil Rassoul, an Iraqi Kurd serving as a mediator, were assassinated in a Vienna apartment while meeting with a delegation from the Iranian government\u2026Investigators found a blue baseball cap in Ghassemlou\u2019s lap, the same call sign that was left at the scene of the murder of an Iranian pilot, Ahmad Moradi Talebi, in 1987 and the 1990 murder of resistance leader Kazem Radjavi.<\/p>\n Less than a year after the Vienna assassinations and the abortive attempt on Rushdie\u2019s life in London, Kazem Radjavi, former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations and brother of the leader of the Iranian opposition group MEK, was assassinated. On April 24, 1990, his car was forced off the road in Coppet, Switzerland, by two vehicles, after which two armed men exited one of the vehicles and opened fire\u2026According to the report of the Swiss investigating judge, evidence pointed to the direct involvement of one or more official Iranian services in the murder.<\/p>\n Death at the Mykonos Restaurant<\/strong> Much of the information surrounding the Mykonos plot was relayed by an Iranian defector named Abolghasem Mesbahi, who claimed to be a founding member of the Iranian Security Service. According to him, the decision to carry out the attack was made by the Committee for Special Operations, which included President Rafsanjani, Minister of Intelligence Fallahiyan, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, representatives of the Security Apparatus, and, most significantly, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n The brazen assassination in public of four Iranian dissidents at Mykonos, in the opinion of Germany\u2019s highest criminal court, signaled culpability for terrorism at the highest levels of the Islamic Republic\u2026 By identifying President Rafsanjani and the Supreme Leader himself as the orchestrators of the assassination, the judgment found that \u201cIranian powers not only allow terrorist attacks abroad \u2026 but that they themselves set in action such attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n In the wake of Iranian terrorist plots abroad in the late 1980s, the U.S. intelligence community concluded that \u201cover the long term, Iran is likely to be deterred from terrorism only if evidence of its culpability results in strong, unified action by the international community, including a willingness to impose sanctions. This could include the breaking of relations, or the recall of ambassadors.\u201d But to date, that has not been the case.<\/p>\n Iran state sponsor of terrorism after cold war era Iran state sponsor of terrorism is the subject of many articles in the International Mass Media. The Iranian regime is very intensely involved in international terrorism, and that is why it is generally known as a Iran state sponsor of terrorism worldwide. \u201cIran\u2019s Deadly Diplomats\u201d is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[25,89,57,59,52,27,100,71,91],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-democracy-in-iran","tag-free-iran-gathering","tag-freedom","tag-iranian-opposition","tag-iranian-resistance","tag-ncri","tag-pmoi-mek-2","tag-regime-change","tag-alternative"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIran\u2019s Deadly Diplomats<\/a><\/h1>\n
\nThe most daring and public assassinations Hezbollah carried out at the behest of its Iranian masters occurred on September 17, 1992, when operatives gunned down Dr. Sadegh Sharafkandi, secretary-general of the PDKI\u2014the biggest movement of Iranian Kurdish opposition to Tehran\u2014and three of his colleagues at the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin.36<\/sup><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0This operation also involved Iranian diplomats\u2026 In its findings, a Berlin court ruled that the attack was carried out by a Hezbollah cell by order of the Iranian government.<\/p>\nRelated Articles<\/h2>\n
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