Iran’s trail of terrorism in Europe
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Iran’s trail of terrorism in Europe
Iranian agents or Iranian-backed radical groups became
active 1979 and the attacks escalated in mid-eighties
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Published: 17:57 July 3, 2018
Jumana Al Tamimi, Associate Editor
According to western intelligence sources and European
think-tanks,Iranian agents or Iranian-backed radical groups’
terrorism in Europe goes back to 1979, when the Islamic Republic was formed.
The attacks escalated in mid-eighties. Following are some of the attacks.
December 1979: Iranian agents
assassinate the nephew of the Shah, Shahriar Shafiq, in Paris.
1980: A five-person
‘hit squad’ attempts to murder the last prime minister before the 1979 Islamic
revolution, Shapour Bakhtiar, in Paris. The assassins failed to kill Bakhtiar,
instead murdering a policewoman and Bakhtiar’s female neighboyr. In 1991,
three Iranianagents murder Bakhtiar in his Paris home.
February 1984: General
Oveisi, the shah’s former martial law administrator, and his brother, are shot
dead in Paris.
May 12: A car
laden with explosives detonates near an Iraqi Airways ticket office
in Nicosia, Cyprus. Iraqi dissident groups supported
byIran claim credit.
July: Three
radical Lebanese Shiites hijack an Air France plane flying from
Frankfurt to Paris and divert it to Tehran.
August: A gunman
attacks a Kuwaiti businessman in a Spanish resort town, and kills his driver.
September: A Saudi engineer
is assassinated in the same town. Islamic Jihad callers claim responsibility
for both attacks.
December: Bombs are
found under the cars of four Iraqi diplomats in Athens, Greece. A
Greek expert dies while trying to defuse one of the bombs.
An Iranian-backed Iraqi opposition group claims
responsibility.
July 13, 1989: Iranian intelligence
agents in Vienna assassinate Abdul Rahman Gassemlou, secretary-general of the
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. Gassemlou was visiting Austria
to negotiate with Iranian officials on Kurdish rights and
self-governance.
1990: Iranian assassins
murder Professor Kazem Rajavi, a human rights advocate and
the elder brother of Iranian opposition leader Massoud Rajavi, in
Switzerland. In late 1992, two men implicated inRajavi’s murder are
apprehended in Paris. Switzerland requests their extradition, but in December
1993, France sends both men back toIran, citing “reasons connected
to our national interests”. It was later revealed that Iran had
threatened terror attacks on French targets ifFrance chose to
extradite the fugitives — threats that France took “with great
seriousness”.
September 1992: Gassemlou’s
successor, Sadegh Sharafkandi, and three of his associates are assassinated at
the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin. A German court begins a trial
of Iranian suspects in October 1993, and finds
four Iranian officials guilty of the murders in April 1997.
— Compiled from different websites and online documents
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