List of Iranian assassinations

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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	City	Country	Target	Position	Killer
12 August 1970	Baghdad	Iraq	Teymur Bakhtiar	Former founder of SAVAK.	Alleged SAVAK operation.
29 June 1976		Iran	Hamid Ashraf	Leader of Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.	A SAVAK operation.

By the Islamic Republic of Iran[]

Date	City	Country	Target	Position	Killer
7 December 1979	Paris	France	Shahriar Shafiq	Head of the Iran Azad Group, nephew of the last Shah of Iran	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	Dawud Salahuddin
7 February 1984	Paris	France	Gholam Ali Oveisi	former Chief Commander of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces	Islamic Jihad Organization
19 May 1987	Vienna	Austria	Hamid Reza Chitgar	Representative of Labor Party of Iran	Suspected Iranian agents
13 July 1989			Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou	Head of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
				Assistant to the Head of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
1 April 1990	Nynäshamn	Sweden	Karim Mohammedzadeh	Iranian Kurdish dissident
24 April 1990	Coppet	Switzerland	Kazem Rajavi	Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.Former Ambassador of Iran to the UN	Suspected Iranian agents
15 August 1990	Konya	Turkey	Elî Kaşifpûr	Member central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
6 September 1990	Västerås	Sweden	Efat Ghazi	Member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
6 August 1991	Suresnes	France	Shapour Bakhtiar	former Prime Minister of Iran. Head of the National Resistance Movement of Iran	Ali Vakili Rad
7 August 1992	Bonn	Germany	Fereydoun Farrokhzad	Iranian dissident	Suspected Iranian agents
17 September 1992	Berlin		Sadegh Sharafkandi	Head of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan	Mykonos restaurant assassinations
				One of the leaders of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
			Homayoun Ardalan
6 July 1996	Stockholm	Sweden	Kamran Hedayati	Iranian Kurdish dissident	Suspected Iranian agents
15 December 2015	Almere	Netherlands	Mohammad-Reza Kolahi Samadi	People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK)	Suspected Iranian agents
29 April 2017	Istanbul	Turkey	Saeed Karimian	Iranian television executive, owner of Dubai-based GEM TV	VAJA
8 November 2017	The Hague	Netherlands		Arab Struggle Movement	Suspected Iranian agents

By Resistance Opposition groups[]

Date	City	Country	Target	Description	Killer
11 March 1946	Tehran	Iran	Ahmad Kasravi	Iranian linguist, historian and Democrat Party member	Fada'iyan-e Islam
5 November 1949			Abdolhossein Hazhir	Prime Minister of Iran
7 March 1951			Haj Ali Razmara
27 January 1965			Hassan Ali Mansur
23 April 1979		Iran	Mohammad-Vali Gharani	Chief-of-Staff of the Iranian Army	Forghan group
1 May 1979			Morteza Motahhari	President of Council of Islamic Revolution
2 November 1979	Tabriz		Mohammad Ali Qazi Tabatabaei	Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan	People's Mujahedin of Iran
28 June 1981	Tehran		Mosa Kalantari	Ministry of Roads & Urban Development
			Mohammad Beheshti	Chief Justice of Iran
			Mohammad Montazeri	member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards
30 August 1981			Mohammad-Ali Rajai	President of Iran
			Mohammad-Javad Bahonar	Prime Minister of Iran
21 September 1981	Tabriz		Mir Asadollah Madani	Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan
22 August 1998	Tehran		Asadollah Lajevardi	Iranian prosecutor
10 April 1999			Ali Sayad Shirazi	Iranian Army Commander
2 August 2005			Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi	Iranian judge

See also[]

• Targeted Killing in International Law