List of people assassinated by the People's Mujahedin of Iran explained

The following is a list of notable people assassinated by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

Islamic Republic targets

Heads of government branches

• Mohammad-Ali Rajai (30 August 1981) – President of Iran
• Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (30 August 1981) – Prime Minister of Iran

Members of Parliament

• Reza Kamyab (28 July 1981) – Mashhad
• Mojtaba Ozbaki (23 December 1981)^[1] – Shahrekord
• Mohammad-Taqi Besharat (28 December 1981) – Semirom
• Mojtaba Esteki (21 January 1982)^[2] – MP

Military and police officers

• Brigadier General Saeed Taheri (13 August 1972) – Chief of Police of Tehran
• Brigadier General Reza Zandipoor (29 March 1975) – Chief of Anti-sabotage Joint Committee Prison
• Seyyed Naser Mohsenpur (24 August 1981) – Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps servicemen
• General Zandipour (March 1975) – a warden assassinated at the Anti-sabotage Joint Committee prison^[3]

Other officials

• Iranian employee at Embassy of the United States, Tehran (3 July 1975) ^[3]
• Majid Sharif Vaghefi (5 May 1975) – Part of a purge, central cadre member, he was shot dead by fellow MEK members and his body was burnt in order not to be identified.^[4]
• Malek Boroujerdi (23 December 1978) – Iranian Oilfield Services Company (IOSC) employee
• Mohammad-Ali Ansari (6 July 1981) – Governor of Gilan Province
• Ali Qoddousi (5 September 1981) – Military prosecutor-general
• Mir Asadollah Madani (11 September 1981) – Supreme leader's representative in East Azerbaijan Province
• Hassan Ayat (5 August 1981) - Iranian politician, member of Parliament of Iran in first assembly after the Iranian Revolution, member of Assembly of Experts for Constitution
• Abdol Hossein Dastgheib (11 December 1981) – Supreme leader's representative in Fars Province, he and several others killed in a suicide attack in Shiraz during Friday prayers
• Gholamali Jaaffarzadeh (23 December 1981)^[1] – Governor of Mashhad County
• Mohammad-Salim Hosni (14 March 1982) – Reconstruction Crusade official
• Ali-Mohammad Sadduqi (2 July 1982)^[5] – Supreme leader's representative in Yazd Province
• Assassination of a senior cleric in Tehran ^[3] (26 February 1982)
• Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani (15 October 1982) – Supreme leader's representative in Kermanshah Province
• Hussein Ghane-Ghole (6 January 1987) – Warden of Mashhad prison
• Jamshid Ghare-Sarvari (13 February 1987) – Warden of Ahvaz prison
• Asadollah Lajevardi (23 August 1998)^[6] – Former warden of Evin Prison
• A senior cleric (June 1998) assassinated in Najaf, Iraq ^[3]
• A senior IRGC commander (1 May 2000) assassinated in Tehran ^[3]

Lebanese citizens

• Musa Shaib (28 July 1980) – A leading member of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party in Lebanon by using automatic firearm

Turkish citizens

• Çağlar Yücel (12 December 1993) – A diplomat at the embassy of Turkey in Iraq

Attempted Islamic Republic targets

Heads of government branches

• Ali Khamenei (15 March 1985) – President of Iran
• Mohammad Khatami (5 February 2000)^[7] – President of Iran

Members of Parliament

• Habibollah Asgaroladi (20 July 1981)^[8] – Tehran
• Hadi Khamenei (11 February 1987) – Mashhad

Military and police officers

• Brigadier General Mohsen Rafighdoost (14 September 1998)^[9] – Head of Mostazafan Foundation
• Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi (13 March 2000) – Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
• Brigadier General Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf (7 January 2001)^[10] – Chief of Police of Iran

Other officials

• Ahmad Khomeini (15 June 1982) – Eldest son of the Supreme leader
• Mohammad Va'ez Abaee-Khorasani (22 April 1994) – Member of the Assembly of Experts from Khorasan Province
• Mohammed Raisi (6 July 1997) – Diplomat at Iranian Embassy in Madrid, Spain
• Ali Razini (5 January 1999)^[11] – Head of Tehran's judiciary

Attempted American targets

• Brigadier General Harold Price (May 1972)

Islamic Republic of Iran assassinations allegations against the MEK

• Seyyed Hasan Beheshti (23 July 1981) – Islamic Republican Party's candidate for the parliamentary elections
• Mousa Kalantari (28 June 1981) – Minister of Housing
• Abdulkarim Hasheminejad (29 September 1981)^[12] – Mashhad
• Major General Ali Sayyad Shirazi (10 April 1999) – Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Iranian Armed Forces
• Mohammad Kachui (29 June 1981) – Warden of Evin Prison
• Mahmoud Ghandi (28 June 1981) – Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone
• Hassan Abbaspour (28 June 1981) – Minister of Energy
• Mohammad-Ali Fayyazbakhsh (28 June 1981) – Minister without portfolio
• Colonel Houshang Vahid-Dastjerdi (5 September 1981) – Chief of Police of Iran
• Mohammad Montazeri (28 June 1981) – Najafabad
• Mohammad Chavoushi (8 March 1982) – Chief of the political and ideological office of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy

Disputed Assassinations

• Gholam-Hussein Haghani (28 June 1981) – Bandar Abbas^{[13] [14]}
• Fakhreddin Rahimi (28 June 1981) – Malavi
• Abbas-Ali Nateq-Nouri (28 June 1981) – Nour
• Mohammad Beheshti (28 June 1981)^{[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]} – Chief Justice of Iran
• Paul E. Grimm (killed 23 December 1978) – Iranian Oilfield Services Company (IOSC) employee
• On 28 June 1981, a bomb detonated at the Islamic Republican Party headquarters in Tehran killed 73, including the party's secretary-general, 4 cabinet ministers, 10 vice ministers and 27 members of the Parliament of Iran. See Hafte Tir bombing
• Lieutenant colonel Lewis L. Hawkins (2 June 1973)^{[19] [20] [21]} – United States Army military adviser in Iran (the Washington Post reported that the leader of the group, Vahid Afrakhteh, one of the founders of Peykar, stated that he personally killed col. Lewis Lee Hawkins in Tehran in 1973.[p.A9]).^[22]
• Colonel Paul R. Shaffer (21 May 1975) – United States Air Force military adviser in Iran.^{[23] [24] [25] [26]}
• Lieutenant colonel Jack H. Turner (21 May 1975) – United States Air Force military adviser in Iran
• Robert R. Krongrad, William C. Cottrell, Jr., Donald G. Smith (28 August 1976)^[3] – they assassinated by four gunmen on their way to Doshan Tappeh Air Base to work on Project IBEX.^[27]

See also

• • Camp Ashraf

Notes and References

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2. Book: Baktiari. Bahman. Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics. University Press of Florida. 1996. 79. 978-0-8130-1461-6.
3. Book: Goulka, Jeremiah . Hansell, Lydia . Wilke, Elizabeth . Larson, Judith . The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq: a policy conundrum. RAND Corporation. 978-0-8330-4701-4. 2009. 2018-11-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20160222043501/http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG871.pdf. 2016-02-22.
4. Mohammad Karimi. Ahmad Ahmad Memoirs (54). Oral History Weekly. 137. 30 October 2013. Mohsen Kazemi. Soureh Mehr Publishing Company (Original Text in Persian, 2000). 19 November 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202070248/http://ohwm.ir/en/showfeuilleton.php?id=137. 2 February 2017. live.
5. Book: Abrahamian, Ervand. Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin. I.B. Tauris. 1989. 1-85043-077-2. 222.
6. Book: Barry Rubin . Judith Colp Rubin . Chronologies of Modern Terrorism. Routledge. 2015. 978-1-317-47465-4. 274.
7. Web site: Khatami survives mortar attack. 5 February 2000. BBC. 25 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202150811/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/632218.stm. 2 February 2017. live.
8. Book: Hiro. Dilip. Iran Under the Ayatollahs (Routledge Revivals). Routledge. 2013. 978-1-135-04381-0. 191.
9. Book: Alaolmolki. Nozar. Life After the Soviet Union: The Newly Independent Republics of the Transcaucasus and Central Asia. SUNY Press. 2001. 978-0-7914-5138-0. 122.
10. Web site: Explosions rock Tehran. 7 January 2001. BBC. 25 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20010718063235/http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1105000/1105387.stm. 18 July 2001. live.
11. Web site: Grenade attack against Iran judge. 5 January 1999. BBC. 25 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20170203044223/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/249250.stm. 3 February 2017. live.
12. Web site: A New Slaying, More Executions in Iran. 30 September 1981. Reuters. The New York Times. 25 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202071542/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/30/world/a-new-slaying-more-executions-in-iran.html. 2 February 2017. live.
13. Book: Abrahamian, Ervand . Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin . I.B. Tauris. 1989. 978-1-85043-077-3. 219–220.
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15. Book: Navai . Ramita . City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran . 19 June 2014 . Tantor Audio . 978-1-4945-5613-6 . 2018-11-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181118164616/https://books.google.it/books?id=gZe9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT105&dq=bombing++Beheshti+MEK&hl=fa&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3tPWQ9N3eAhVlm-AKHW2TBsIQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=bombing%20%20Beheshti%20MEK&f=false . 2018-11-18 . live .
16. Book: Mousavian . Seyed Hossein . Shahidsaless . Shahir . Iran and the United States: An Insider's View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace . 19 June 2014 . Bloomsbury Academic . 978-1-5013-1206-9 . 2018-11-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181118164616/https://books.google.it/books?id=gZe9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT105&dq=bombing++Beheshti+MEK&hl=fa&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3tPWQ9N3eAhVlm-AKHW2TBsIQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=bombing%20%20Beheshti%20MEK&f=false . 2018-11-18 . live .
17. Book: O'Hern . Steven K. . Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat that Grows While America Sleeps . 2012 . Potomac Books . 978-1-59797-701-2 . 2018-11-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181118164527/https://books.google.it/books?id=Rk178rd9DkkC&pg=PT53&dq=bombing++Beheshti+MEK&hl=fa&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3tPWQ9N3eAhVlm-AKHW2TBsIQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=bombing%20%20Beheshti%20MEK&f=false . 2018-11-18 . live .
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26. News: Memo to Obama: They Are Not Terrorists. Raymond. Tanter. The Daily Beast . August 8, 2009. www.thedailybeast.com.
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