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)
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| style="width:8%;"|Date
! style="width:8%;"|City ! style="width:8%;"|Country ! style="width:18%;"|Target ! style="width:20%;"|Position ! style="width:12%;"|Killer |
|---|
| 12 August 1970
|{{Flag|Iraq|1963}} |Former founder of SAVAK. |Alleged SAVAK operation. |
| 29 June 1976
| |{{Flag|Iran|1964}} |Leader of Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas. |A SAVAK operation. |
By the Islamic Republic of Iran
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| style="width:8%;"|Date
! style="width:8%;"|City ! style="width:8%;"|Country ! style="width:18%;"|Target ! style="width:20%;"|Position ! style="width:12%;"|Killer |
|---|
| 7 December 1979
|{{Flag|France}} |Head of the Iran Azad Group, nephew of the last Shah of Iran |Muslim Liberation Group |
| 22 July 1980
|{{Flag|United States}} |President of the Iran Freedom Foundation, former press attache to the Iranian embassy |
| 7 February 1984
|{{Flag|France}} |former Chief Commander of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces |
| 19 May 1987
|rowspan=3|Vienna |rowspan=3|{{Flag|Austria}} |Representative of Labor Party of Iran |rowspan=3|Suspected Iranian agents |
| rowspan=2|13 July 1989
|Head of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan |
| Abdullah Ghaderi Azar
|Assistant to the Head of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan |
| 1 April 1990
|{{Flag|Sweden}} |Iranian Kurdish dissident |
| 24 April 1990
|{{Flag|Switzerland}} |Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.Former Ambassador of Iran to the UN |rowspan=3|Suspected Iranian agents |
| 15 August 1990
|{{Flag|Turkey}} |Member central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran |
| 6 September 1990
|{{Flag|Sweden}} |Member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran |
| 6 August 1991
|{{Flag|France}} |former Prime Minister of Iran. Head of the National Resistance Movement of Iran |Ali Vakili Rad |
| 7 August 1992
|Bonn | rowspan="5" |{{Flag|Germany}} |Iranian dissident |Suspected Iranian agents |
| rowspan="4" |17 September 1992
| rowspan="4" |Berlin |Head of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan | rowspan="4" |Mykonos restaurant assassinations |
| Fattah Abdoli
|rowspan=3|One of the leaders of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan |
| Homayoun Ardalan |
| Nouri Dehkordi |
| 6 July 1996
|{{Flag|Sweden}} |Iranian Kurdish dissident |Suspected Iranian agents |
| 15 December 2015
|{{flag|Netherlands}} |People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) |Suspected Iranian agents |
| 29 April 2017
|{{flag|Turkey}} |Iranian television executive, owner of Dubai-based GEM TV |VAJA |
| 8 November 2017
|{{flag|Netherlands}} |Arab Struggle Movement |Suspected Iranian agents |
By Resistance Opposition groups
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| style="width:8%;"|Date
! style="width:8%;"|City ! style="width:8%;"|Country ! style="width:18%;"|Target ! style="width:20%;"|Description ! style="width:12%;"|Killer |
|---|
| 11 March 1946
| rowspan="6" |Tehran | rowspan="4" |{{Flag|Iran|1964}} |Iranian linguist, historian and Democrat Party member | rowspan="4" |Fada'iyan-e Islam |
| 5 November 1949
| rowspan="3" |Prime Minister of Iran |
| 7 March 1951 |
| 27 January 1965 |
| 23 April 1979
|rowspan=11|{{Flag|Iran}} |Chief-of-Staff of the Iranian Army |rowspan=2|Forghan group |
| 1 May 1979
|President of Council of Islamic Revolution |
| 2 November 1979
|Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan |rowspan=9|People's Mujahedin of Iran |
| rowspan=3|28 June 1981
|rowspan=5|Tehran |
| Mohammad Beheshti |
| Mohammad Montazeri
|member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards |
| rowspan=2| 30 August 1981 |
| Mohammad-Javad Bahonar |
| 21 September 1981
|Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan |
| 22 August 1998
|rowspan=2|Tehran |Iranian prosecutor |
| 10 April 1999
|Iranian Army Commander |
See also
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