List of Iranian assassinations

List of Iranian assassinations refers to a list of alleged and confirmed assassinations, reported to have been conducted by the Pahlavi Dynasty, by the Islamic Republic of Iran, or by opposition groups.

The Organization of Intelligence and National Security carried out political motivated assassinations against dissidents and opposition leaders during the reign of the Pahlavi Dynasty. Iranian security and intelligence have assassinated opposition members, most notably Kurdish dissidents of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran during the 1980s and 1990s.

By Pahlavi regime (1953–1979) DateCityCountryTargetPositionPerpetrator12 August 1970BaghdadTeymur BakhtiarFormer founder of SAVAK.Alleged SAVAK operation.29 June 1976TehranHamid AshrafLeader of Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.A SAVAK operation.

By the Islamic Republic of Iran DateCityCountryTargetPositionPerpetrator7 December 1979ParisShahriar ShafiqHead of the Iran Azad Group, nephew of the last Shah of IranMuslim Liberation Group22 July 1980Bethesda, Maryland Ali Akbar TabatabaeiPresident of the Iran Freedom Foundation, former press attache to the Iranian embassyDawud Salahuddin7 February 1984Paris Gholam Ali OveisiFormer Chief Commander of the Imperial Iranian Armed ForcesIslamic Jihad Organization19 May 1987ViennaHamid Reza ChitgarRepresentative of Labor Party of IranSuspected Iranian agents13 July 1989Abdul Rahman GhassemlouHead of the Democratic Party of Iranian KurdistanAbdullah Ghaderi AzarAssistant to the Head of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan1 April 1990NynäshamnKarim MohammedzadehIranian Kurdish dissidentReza Taslimi24 April 1990CoppetKazem RajaviRepresentative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Former Ambassador of Iran to the UNSuspected Iranian agents15 August 1990KonyaElî KaşifpûrMember central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran6 September 1990VästeråsEfat GhaziMember of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran11 July 1991TsukubaHitoshi Igarashi (allegedly)Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's the Satanic Verses6 August 1991SuresnesShapour BakhtiarFormer Prime Minister of Iran. Head of the National Resistance Movement of IranAli Vakili Rad7 August 1992BonnFereydoun FarrokhzadIranian dissidentIranian-paid Basque separatists17 September 1992BerlinSadegh SharafkandiHead of the Democratic Party of Iranian KurdistanMykonos restaurant assassinationsFattah AbdoliOne of the leaders of the Democratic Party of Iranian KurdistanHomayoun ArdalanNouri Dehkordi6 July 1996StockholmKamran HedayatiIranian Kurdish dissidentSuspected Iranian agents21 September 2010TehranAbdoulreza SoudbakhshIranian physician and university professorSuspected Iranian agents15 December 2015AlmereMohammad-Reza Kolahi SamadiPeople's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK)Suspected Iranian agents29 April 2017IstanbulSaeed KarimianIranian television executive, owner of Dubai-based GEM TVVAJA8 November 2017The HagueAhmad Mola NissiArab Struggle MovementSuspected Iranian agents14 November 2019IstanbulMasoud MolaviEx-Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps insider, whistleblowerSuspected Iranian agents

By opposition groups DateCityCountryTargetDescriptionPerpetrator11 March 1946TehranAhmad KasraviIranian linguist, historian and Democrat Party memberFada'iyan-e Islam13 February 1948Mohammad MasudIranian journalistTudeh Party of Iran5 November 1949Abdolhossein HazhirPrime Minister of IranFada'iyan-e Islam7 March 1951Haj Ali Razmara27 January 1965Hassan Ali Mansur23 April 1979Mohammad-Vali GharaniChief-of-Staff of the Iranian ArmyForghan group1 May 1979Morteza MotahhariPresident of Council of Islamic Revolution2 November 1979TabrizMohammad Ali Qazi TabatabaeiRepresentative of the Supreme Leader in East AzerbaijanPeople's Mujahedin of Iran28 June 1981TehranMosa KalantariMinistry of Roads & Urban DevelopmentMohammad BeheshtiChief Justice of IranMohammad MontazeriMember of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards 30 August 1981Mohammad-Ali RajaiPresident of IranMohammad-Javad BahonarPrime Minister of Iran21 September 1981TabrizMir Asadollah MadaniRepresentative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan22 August 1998TehranAsadollah LajevardiIranian prosecutor10 April 1999Ali Sayad ShiraziIranian Army Commander

List of Iranian assassinations

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