List of Iranian assassinations
By the Islamic Republic of Iran

List of Iranian assassinations

Section Title: By the Islamic Republic of Iran
Table Section Text: None

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

July 13, 1989	Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou	Head of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan

Abdullah Ghaderi Azar	Assistant to the Head of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan

1 April 1990	Nynäshamn	Sweden	Karim Mohammedzadeh	Iranian Kurdish dissident	Reza Taslimi

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

6 September 1990	Västerås	Sweden	Efat Ghazi	Member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran

12 July 1991	Tsukuba	Japan	Hitoshi Igarashi	Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

6 August 1991	Suresnes	France	Shapour Bakhtiar	former Prime Minister of Iran.Head of the National Resistance Movement of Iran	Ali Vakili Rad

August 7 1992	Bonn	Germany	Fereydoun Farrokhzad	Iranian dissident	Suspected Iranian agents

September 17 1992	Berlin	Sadegh Sharafkandi	Head of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan	Mykonos restaurant assassinations

Fattah Abdoli	One of the leaders of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan

Homayoun Ardalan

Nouri Dehkordi

6 July 1996	Stockholm	Sweden	Kamran Hedayati	Iranian Kurdish dissident	Suspected Iranian agents

29 April 2017	Istanbul	Turkey	Saeed Karimian	Iranian television executive, owner of Dubai-based GEM TV	Ministry of Intelligence of Islamic Republic of Iran

Sentence(s)

Ghassemlou was the leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan until his assassination in 1989 by suspected agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

final_sentence: Ghassemlou was the leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan until his assassination in 1989 by suspected agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran.