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Iranian Crackdown Goes Global. ⇒

   3 December 2009, mid-afternoon

What they are doing now is actually really tame compared to what Khomeini’s government was getting up to in the 80s. Iran actually used to kill Iranian nationals living abroad who they didn’t like. New Yorker Hassan Abdulrahman killed Ali Akbar Tabatabai, the former press attache for the Shah of Iran, and then fled to Iran. They made a muddled documentary about the murder which I saw at Hot Docs. Abdorrahman Boroumand was murdered in Paris. My cousin met his daughters, who run a human rights foundation. There are lots of stories like this from the 80s and early 90s. Shapour Bakhtiar was murdered in Paris. Fereydoun Farrokhzad was (probably) killed by Iranian agents in Germany. Kazem Rajavi was murdered in Switzerland. (He’s the brother of Massoud Rajavi, head of the MEK.) They killed several Kurdish dissidents in Europe. That country is kind of crazy.

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  1. As Tabatabai’s former wife, my wound opens up every time his assassination is brought up.

    by Lynne Tabatabai on December 4 2009, 11:28 am   #

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