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

== Assassinations ==
== Assassinations ==
=== Heads of government branches ===
=== Heads of government branches ===
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* [[Mohammad Beheshti]] (28 June 1981)<ref name="NYT 1981">{{citation|title=33 High Iranian Officials Die in Bombing at Party Meeting; Chief Judge is among Victims|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/29/world/33-high-iranian-officials-die-bombimg-party-meeting-chief-judge-among-victims.html|work=Reuters|via=The New York Times|date=29 June 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – [[Chief Justice of Iran]]
* [[Mohammad-Ali Rajai]] (30 August 1981)<ref name="Bill">{{citation|title=Power and Religion in Revolutionary Iran|author=James A. Bill|journal=Middle East Journal|volume=36|number=1|date=Winter 1982|at=TABLE 1: Shi'a Ulema in First Islamic Majlis of Iran, 1980-81|jstor=4326354}}</ref> – [[President of Iran]]
* [[Mohammad-Ali Rajai]] (30 August 1981)<ref name="Bill">{{citation|title=Power and Religion in Revolutionary Iran|author=James A. Bill|journal=Middle East Journal|volume=36|number=1|date=Winter 1982|at=TABLE 1: Shi'a Ulema in First Islamic Majlis of Iran, 1980-81|jstor=4326354}}</ref> – [[President of Iran]]
* [[Mohammad-Javad Bahonar]] (30 August 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – [[Prime Minister of Iran]]
* [[Mohammad-Javad Bahonar]] (30 August 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – [[Prime Minister of Iran]]


=== Government ministers ===
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* [[Mousa Kalantari]] (28 June 1981)<ref name="NYT 1981"/> – [[Ministry of Roads and Urban Development (Iran)|Minister of Housing]]
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* Mahmoud Ghandi (28 June 1981)<ref name="NYT 1981"/> – [[Ministry of Information and Communications Technology of Iran|Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone]]
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* Hassan Abbaspour (28 June 1981)<ref name="NYT 1981"/> – [[Ministry of Energy (Iran)|Minister of Energy]]
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* Mohammad-Ali Fayyazbakhsh (28 June 1981)<ref name="NYT 1981"/> – [[Minister without portfolio]]
=== Members of Parliament ===
=== Members of Parliament ===
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* [[Mohammad Montazeri]] (28 June 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – Najafabad
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* Gholam-Hussein Haghani (28 June 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – Bandar Abbas
* Fakhreddin Rahimi (28 June 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – Malavi
* Abbas-Ali Nateq-Nouri (28 June 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – Nour
* Reza Kamyab (28 July 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – Mashhad
* Reza Kamyab (28 July 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – Mashhad
* [[Hassan Ayat]] (5 August 1981)<ref>{{citation|last=McGirk|first=Tim|title=Why the Shah's pilot flew Bani-Sadr to Paris|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1981/0811/081136.html|work=The Christian Science Monitor|date=11 August 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Tehran
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* [[Syyed Abdul Karim Hashemi Nejad|Abdulkarim Hasheminejad]] (29 September 1981)<ref>{{cite web|title=A New Slaying, More Executions in Iran|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/30/world/a-new-slaying-more-executions-in-iran.html|date=30 September 1981|work=Reuters|publisher=The New York Times|access-date=25 December 2016}}</ref> – Mashhad
* Mojtaba Ozbaki (23 December 1981)<ref name="AP81">{{cite web|title=2 of Ayatollah's Backers Slain|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/24/world/no-headline-145092.html|date=30 September 1981|work=AP|publisher=The New York Times|access-date=25 December 2016}}</ref> – Shahrekord
* Mojtaba Ozbaki (23 December 1981)<ref name="AP81">{{cite web|title=2 of Ayatollah's Backers Slain|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/24/world/no-headline-145092.html|date=30 September 1981|work=AP|publisher=The New York Times|access-date=25 December 2016}}</ref> – Shahrekord
* Mohammad-Taqi Besharat (28 December 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=Opponents of Aytatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime assassinated one of his most trusted deputies|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/12/28/Opponents-of-Aytatollah-Ruhollah-Khomeinis-regime-assassinated-one-of/3256378363600/|work=United Press International|date=28 December 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Semirom
* Mohammad-Taqi Besharat (28 December 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=Opponents of Aytatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's regime assassinated one of his most trusted deputies|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/12/28/Opponents-of-Aytatollah-Ruhollah-Khomeinis-regime-assassinated-one-of/3256378363600/|work=United Press International|date=28 December 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Semirom
* Mojtaba Esteki (21 January 1982)<ref name="ppori">{{cite book|last1=Baktiari|first1=Bahman|title=Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics|publisher=[[University Press of Florida]]|year=1996|page=79|isbn=978-0-8130-1461-6}}</ref> – MP


=== Military and police officers ===
=== Military and police officers ===
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* Brigadier General Reza Zandipoor (29 March 1975)<ref>{{citation|title=Translations on Near East and North Africa|number=13431351|page=73|publisher=Joint Publications Research Service|year=1975|entry=General Assassinated Yesterday}}</ref> – Chief of [[Towhid Prison|Anti-sabotage Joint Committee Prison]]
* Brigadier General Reza Zandipoor (29 March 1975)<ref>{{citation|title=Translations on Near East and North Africa|number=13431351|page=73|publisher=Joint Publications Research Service|year=1975|entry=General Assassinated Yesterday}}</ref> – Chief of [[Towhid Prison|Anti-sabotage Joint Committee Prison]]
* Seyyed Naser Mohsenpur (24 August 1981)<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=198108240004|title=Global Terrorism Database [Data file]|date=1981-08-24|work=National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)|id=198108240004}}</ref> – [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]] servicemen
* Seyyed Naser Mohsenpur (24 August 1981)<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=198108240004|title=Global Terrorism Database [Data file]|date=1981-08-24|work=National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)|id=198108240004}}</ref> – [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps]] servicemen
*General Zandipour (March 1975)<ref name="OHW" /> – a warden assassinated at the [[Towhid Prison|Anti-sabotage Joint Committee]] prison<ref name="RAND">{{Cite book|authors=Goulka, Jeremiah; Hansell, Lydia; Wilke, Elizabeth; Larson, Judith|url=http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2009/RAND_MG871.pdf|title=The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq: a policy conundrum|publisher=[[RAND Corporation]]|isbn=978-0-8330-4701-4|year=2009}}</ref>
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* Colonel Houshang Vahid-Dastjerdi (5 September 1981)<ref name="UPI1981"/> – [[Shahrbani|Chief of Police]] of Iran
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* Mohammad Chavoushi (8 March 1982)<ref name=UPI1982/> – Chief of the political and ideological office of the [[Islamic Republic of Iran Navy]]
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* Major General [[Ali Sayad Shirazi]] (10 April 1999)<ref>{{citation|title=Iranian General Is Assassinated in Teheran|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/11/world/iranian-general-is-assassinated-in-teheran.html|work=Reuters|via=The New York Times|date=11 April 1999|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – [[General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran|Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Iranian Armed Forces]]


=== Other officials ===
=== Other officials ===
* Iranian employee at [[Embassy of the United States, Tehran]] (3 July 1975) <ref name="RAND"/>
* [[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.<ref name="OHW">{{cite journal|translator=Mohammad Karimi|url=http://ohwm.ir/en/showfeuilleton.php?id=137|journal=Oral History Weekly|number=137|date=30 October 2013|title=Ahmad Ahmad Memoirs (54)|editor=Mohsen Kazemi|quote=Soureh Mehr Publishing Company (Original Text in Persian, 2000)}}</ref>
* Malek Boroujerdi (23 December 1978)<ref name="WP78"/> – Iranian Oilfield Services Company (IOSC) employee
* Malek Boroujerdi (23 December 1978)<ref name="WP78"/> – Iranian Oilfield Services Company (IOSC) employee
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* Mohammad Kachui (29 June 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=Beheshti Funeral Draws Big|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/01/world/beheshti-funeral-draws-big.html|work=Reuters|via=The New York Times|date=30 June 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Warden of [[Evin Prison]]
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* Seyyed Hasan Beheshti (23 July 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=Around the World; Iran Leftists Assassinate Candidate for Parliament|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/24/world/around-the-world-iran-leftists-assassinate-candidate-for-parliament.html|work=The New York Times|date=23 July 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – [[Islamic Republican Party]]'s candidate for the parliamentary elections
* Mohammad-Ali Ansari (6 July 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=Iranian provincial governor assassinated|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/07/06/Iranian-provincial-governor-assassinated/4360326000044/|work=United Press International|date=6 July 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Governor of [[Gilan Province]]
* Mohammad-Ali Ansari (6 July 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=Iranian provincial governor assassinated|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/07/06/Iranian-provincial-governor-assassinated/4360326000044/|work=United Press International|date=6 July 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Governor of [[Gilan Province]]
* Ali Qoddousi (5 September 1981)<ref name="UPI1981">{{citation|title=Iran's military prosecutor-general Ali Qoddousi was fatally wounded today|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/09/05/Irans-military-prosecutor-general-Ali-Qoddousi-was-fatally-wounded-today/2588368510400/|work=United Press International|date=5 September 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Military prosecutor-general
* Ali Qoddousi (5 September 1981)<ref name="UPI1981">{{citation|title=Iran's military prosecutor-general Ali Qoddousi was fatally wounded today|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/09/05/Irans-military-prosecutor-general-Ali-Qoddousi-was-fatally-wounded-today/2588368510400/|work=United Press International|date=5 September 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Military prosecutor-general
* [[Mir Asadollah Madani]] (11 September 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's personal representative in the city of Tabriz was assassinated Friday in a suicide attack|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/09/11/Ayatollah-Ruhollah-Khomeinis-personal-representative-in-the-city-of/1211369028800/|work=United Press International|date=11 September 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Supreme leader's representative in [[East Azerbaijan Province]]
* [[Mir Asadollah Madani]] (11 September 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's personal representative in the city of Tabriz was assassinated Friday in a suicide attack|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/09/11/Ayatollah-Ruhollah-Khomeinis-personal-representative-in-the-city-of/1211369028800/|work=United Press International|date=11 September 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Supreme leader's representative in [[East Azerbaijan Province]]
* [[Hassan Ayat]] (5 August 1981) - [[Iran]]ian politician, member of [[Islamic Consultative Assembly|Parliament of Iran]] in first assembly after the [[Iranian Revolution]], member of [[Assembly of Experts for Constitution]]{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
* Abdol-Hossein Dastgheib (11 December 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=A bomb blast killed one of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's key aides and 11 other|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/12/11/A-bomb-blast-killed-one-of-Ayatollah-Ruhollah-Khomeinis/6105376894800/|work=United Press International|date=11 December 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Joseph|first=Ralph|title=Mujahideen chief details price of ontinuing fight in Iran|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1981/1224/122459.html|work=The Christian Science Monitor|date=24 December 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Supreme leader's representative in [[Fars Province]]
* [[Abdol Hossein Dastgheib]] (11 December 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=A bomb blast killed one of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's key aides and 11 other|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/12/11/A-bomb-blast-killed-one-of-Ayatollah-Ruhollah-Khomeinis/6105376894800/|work=United Press International|date=11 December 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – 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)<ref name="AP81"/> – Governor of [[Mashhad County]]
* Gholamali Jaaffarzadeh (23 December 1981)<ref name="AP81"/> – Governor of [[Mashhad County]]
* Mohammad-Salim Hosni (14 March 1982)<ref name=UPI1982>{{citation|title=Gunmen kill Iranian religious(sic}leader|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/03/14/Gunmen-kill-Iranian-religous-leader/4532384930000/|work=United Press International|date=14 March 1982|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – [[Jihad of Construction|Reconstruction Crusade]] official
* Mohammad-Salim Hosni (14 March 1982)<ref name=UPI1982>{{citation|title=Gunmen kill Iranian religious(sic)leader|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/03/14/Gunmen-kill-Iranian-religous-leader/4532384930000/|work=United Press International|date=14 March 1982|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – [[Jihad of Construction|Reconstruction Crusade]] official
* Ali-Mohammad Sadduqi (2 July 1982)<ref>{{cite book|first=Ervand|last=Abrahamian|title=Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin|publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=1989|isbn=1-85043-077-2|pages=222}}</ref> – Supreme leader's representative in [[Yazd Province]]
* Ali-Mohammad Sadduqi (2 July 1982)<ref>{{cite book|first=Ervand|last=Abrahamian|title=Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin|publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=1989|isbn=1-85043-077-2|pages=222}}</ref> – Supreme leader's representative in [[Yazd Province]]
* Assassination of a senior cleric in Tehran <ref name="RAND"/> (26 February 1982)
* [[Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani]] (15 October 1982)<ref>{{citation|title=One of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's close aides was assassinated|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/10/15/One-of-Ayatollah-Ruhollah-Khomeinis-close-aides-was-assassinated/4646403502400/|work=United Press International|date=15 October 1982|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Supreme leader's representative in [[Kermanshah Province]]
* [[Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani]] (15 October 1982)<ref>{{citation|title=One of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's close aides was assassinated|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/10/15/One-of-Ayatollah-Ruhollah-Khomeinis-close-aides-was-assassinated/4646403502400/|work=United Press International|date=15 October 1982|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Supreme leader's representative in [[Kermanshah Province]]
* Hussein Ghane-Ghole (6 January 1987)<ref>{{citation|date=7 January 1987|title=Prison claim|publisher=The Independent}}</ref> – Warden of Mashhad prison
* Hussein Ghane-Ghole (6 January 1987)<ref>{{citation|date=7 January 1987|title=Prison claim|publisher=The Independent}}</ref> – Warden of Mashhad prison
* Jamshid Ghare-Sarvari (13 February 1987)<ref>{{citation|date=17 February 1987|title=Iranian dissidents kill prison officer|publisher=The Washington Times}}</ref> – Warden of Ahvaz prison
* Jamshid Ghare-Sarvari (13 February 1987)<ref>{{citation|date=17 February 1987|title=Iranian dissidents kill prison officer|publisher=The Washington Times}}</ref> – Warden of Ahvaz prison
* [[Asadollah Lajevardi]] (23 August 1998)<ref>{{cite book|authors=Barry Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin|title=Chronologies of Modern Terrorism|publisher=Routledge|year=2015|isbn=9781317474654|page=274}}</ref> – Former warden of [[Evin Prison]]
* [[Asadollah Lajevardi]] (23 August 1998)<ref>{{cite book|authors=Barry Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin|title=Chronologies of Modern Terrorism|publisher=Routledge|year=2015|isbn=9781317474654|page=274}}</ref> – Former warden of [[Evin Prison]]
*A senior cleric (June 1998) assassinated in [[Najaf]], Iraq <ref name="RAND"/>
*A senior IRGC commander (1 May 2000) assassinated in Tehran <ref name="RAND"/>


=== American citizens ===
=== American citizens ===
* Lieutenant colonel [[Lewis Lee Hawkins|Lewis L. Hawkins]] (2 June 1973)<ref name="GPO"/> – [[United States Army]] military adviser in Iran
* Colonel [[Paul R. Shaffer]] (21 May 1975)<ref name="GPO"/> – [[United States Air Force]] military adviser in Iran
* Colonel [[Paul R. Shaffer]] (21 May 1975)<ref name="GPO"/> – [[United States Air Force]] military adviser in Iran
* Lieutenant colonel Jack H. Turner (21 May 1975)<ref name="GPO"/> – [[United States Air Force]] military adviser in Iran
* Lieutenant colonel Jack H. Turner (21 May 1975)<ref name="GPO"/> – [[United States Air Force]] military adviser in Iran
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* Robert R. Krongrad, William C. Cottrell, Jr,Donald G. Smith (28 August 1976)<ref name="GPO"/><ref name="RAND"/> – they assassinated by four gunmen on their way to [[Doshan Tappeh Air Base]] to work on [[Project Dark Gene|Project IBEX]].<ref name="GPO">{{cite book|authors=Monica L. Belmonte, Edward Coltrin Keefer|title=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, V. XXVII, Iran, Iraq, 1973–1976|publisher=Government Printing Office|year=2013|isbn=978-0-16-090256-7|page=560}}</ref>
* Robert R. Krongrad (28 August 1976)<ref name="GPO"/> – [[Rockwell International]] employee
* William C. Cottrell, Jr. (28 August 1976)<ref name="GPO"/> – [[Rockwell International]] employee
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* Donald G. Smith (28 August 1976)<ref name="GPO">{{cite book|authors=Monica L. Belmonte, Edward Coltrin Keefer|title=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, V. XXVII, Iran, Iraq, 1973–1976|publisher=Government Printing Office|year=2013|isbn=978-0-16-090256-7|page=560}}</ref> – [[Rockwell International]] employee
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* Paul E. Grimm (23 December 1978)<ref name="WP78">{{citation|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/12/31/shahs-effort-to-form-new-cabinet-falters/71814083-5b54-476c-b72b-900d0a7d68c7/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4f5a34ed959b|first=William|last=Branigin|title=Shah's Effort to Form New Cabinet Falters|work=The Washington Post|access-date=1 August 2018|date=31 December 1978}}</ref> – Iranian Oilfield Services Company (IOSC) employee


=== Lebanese citizens ===
=== Lebanese citizens ===
* Musa Shaib (28 July 1980)<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=198007280006|title=Global Terrorism Database [Data file]|date=1980-07-28|work=National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)|id=198007280006}}</ref> – A leading member of the [[Socialist Arab Lebanon Vanguard Party|Iraqi Ba'ath Party in Lebanon]]
* Musa Shaib (28 July 1980)<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=198007280006|title=Global Terrorism Database [Data file]|date=1980-07-28|work=National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)|id=198007280006}}</ref> – A leading member of the [[Socialist Arab Lebanon Vanguard Party|Iraqi Ba'ath Party in Lebanon]] by using automatic firearm


=== Turkish citizens ===
=== Turkish citizens ===
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* Brigadier General Harold Price (May 1972)<ref name="Gibson"/>
* Brigadier General Harold Price (May 1972)<ref name="Gibson"/>
* [[Richard Nixon]] (May 1972)<ref name="Gibson">{{citation|last=Gibson|first=Bryan R.|title=Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War|date=2016|isbn=9781137517159|series=Facts on File Crime Library|page=136|publisher=Springer}}</ref> – [[United States President]]
* [[Richard Nixon]] (May 1972)<ref name="Gibson">{{citation|last=Gibson|first=Bryan R.|title=Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War|date=2016|isbn=9781137517159|series=Facts on File Crime Library|page=136|publisher=Springer}}</ref> – [[United States President]]

== Islamic Republic of Iran assassinations allegations against the MEK ==
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* Seyyed Hasan Beheshti (23 July 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=Around the World; Iran Leftists Assassinate Candidate for Parliament|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/24/world/around-the-world-iran-leftists-assassinate-candidate-for-parliament.html|work=The New York Times|date=23 July 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – [[Islamic Republican Party]]'s candidate for the parliamentary elections
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* [[Mousa Kalantari]] (28 June 1981)<ref name="NYT 1981">{{citation|title=33 High Iranian Officials Die in Bombing at Party Meeting; Chief Judge is among Victims|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/29/world/33-high-iranian-officials-die-bombimg-party-meeting-chief-judge-among-victims.html|work=Reuters|via=The New York Times|date=29 June 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – [[Ministry of Roads and Urban Development (Iran)|Minister of Housing]]
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* [[Syyed Abdul Karim Hashemi Nejad|Abdulkarim Hasheminejad]] (29 September 1981)<ref>{{cite web|title=A New Slaying, More Executions in Iran|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/30/world/a-new-slaying-more-executions-in-iran.html|date=30 September 1981|work=Reuters|publisher=The New York Times|access-date=25 December 2016}}</ref> – Mashhad
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* Major General [[Ali Sayad Shirazi]] (10 April 1999)<ref>{{citation|title=Iranian General Is Assassinated in Teheran|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/11/world/iranian-general-is-assassinated-in-teheran.html|work=Reuters|via=The New York Times|date=11 April 1999|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – [[General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran|Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Iranian Armed Forces]]
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* Mohammad Kachui (29 June 1981)<ref>{{citation|title=Beheshti Funeral Draws Big|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/01/world/beheshti-funeral-draws-big.html|work=Reuters|via=The New York Times|date=30 June 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref> – Warden of [[Evin Prison]]
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* Mahmoud Ghandi (28 June 1981)<ref name="NYT 1981"/> – [[Ministry of Information and Communications Technology of Iran|Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone]]
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* Hassan Abbaspour (28 June 1981)<ref name="NYT 1981"/> – [[Ministry of Energy (Iran)|Minister of Energy]]
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* Mohammad-Ali Fayyazbakhsh (28 June 1981)<ref name="NYT 1981"/> – [[Minister without portfolio]]
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* Colonel Houshang Vahid-Dastjerdi (5 September 1981)<ref name="UPI1981"/> – [[Shahrbani|Chief of Police]] of Iran
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* [[Mohammad Montazeri]] (28 June 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – Najafabad
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* Mohammad Chavoushi (8 March 1982)<ref name=UPI1982/> – Chief of the political and ideological office of the [[Islamic Republic of Iran Navy]]
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* Paul E. Grimm (23 December 1978)<ref name="WP78">{{citation|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/12/31/shahs-effort-to-form-new-cabinet-falters/71814083-5b54-476c-b72b-900d0a7d68c7/?noredirect=on|first=William|last=Branigin|title=Shah's Effort to Form New Cabinet Falters|work=The Washington Post|access-date=1 August 2018|date=31 December 1978}}</ref> – Iranian Oilfield Services Company (IOSC) employee

==Disputed Assassinations==
* Gholam-Hussein Haghani (28 June 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – Bandar Abbas<ref name="Abrahamian 1989 219–220">{{cite book |first=Ervand |last=Abrahamian |title=Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin |publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=1989|isbn=978-1-85043-077-3|pages=219–220}}</ref><ref name="Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. 2013 27">{{cite book|title=Mujahedin-E Khalq (MEK) Shackled by a Twisted History|author= Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. |year=2013|publisher=University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs|isbn=978-0615783840|pages=27}}</ref>
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* Fakhreddin Rahimi (28 June 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – Malavi
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* Abbas-Ali Nateq-Nouri (28 June 1981)<ref name="Bill"/> – Nour
* [[Mohammad Beheshti]] (28 June 1981)<ref name="Abrahamian 1989 219–220"/><ref name="Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. 2013 27"/><ref name="NYT 1981">{{citation|title=33 High Iranian Officials Die in Bombing at Party Meeting; Chief Judge is among Victims|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/29/world/33-high-iranian-officials-die-bombimg-party-meeting-chief-judge-among-victims.html|work=Reuters|via=The New York Times|date=29 June 1981|access-date=1 June 2018}}</ref><ref name="Navai">{{cite book |last1=Navai |first1=Ramita |title=City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran |publisher=Tantor Audio |isbn=978-1494556136 |url=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}}</ref><ref name="Mousavian">{{cite book |last1=Mousavian |first1=Seyed Hossein |last2=Shahidsaless |first2=Shahir |title=Iran and the United States: An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1501312069 |url=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}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Hern |first1=Steven K. |title=Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat that Grows While America Sleeps |publisher=Potomac Books |isbn=978-1597977012 |url=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}}</ref><ref name="Rubin">{{cite book |last1=Rubin |first1=Barry |last2=Rubin |first2=Judith Colp |title=Chronologies of Modern Terrorism |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0765620477 |url=https://books.google.it/books?id=ynNsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA246&dq=bombing++Beheshti+MEK&hl=fa&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3tPWQ9N3eAhVlm-AKHW2TBsIQ6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=bombing%20%20Beheshti%20MEK&f=false}}</ref> – [[Chief Justice of Iran]]
**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 of Iran|cabinet ministers]], 10 vice ministers and 27 members of the [[Parliament of Iran]]. See [[Hafte Tir bombing]]<ref name="hrq204">{{Citation|first1=Hamid Reza|last1=Qasemi|title=Eradicating Terrorism from the Middle East|series=Policy and Administrative Approaches|chapter=Chapter 12: Iran and Its Policy Against Terrorism|volume=17|editor=Alexander R. Dawoody|isbn=978-3-319-31018-3|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-31018-3|year=2016|publisher=Springer International Publishing Switzerland|page=201}}</ref><ref name="Chronologies">{{Citation|authors=Barry Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin|title=Chronologies of Modern Terrorism|publisher=Routledge|year=2015|page=246}}</ref>
* Lieutenant colonel [[Lewis Lee Hawkins|Lewis L. Hawkins]] (2 June 1973)<ref name="GPO"/><ref name="Cordesman">{{cite book |last1=Cordesman |first1=Anthony H. |last2=Khazai |first2=Sam |title=Iraq in Crisis |publisher=Center for Strategic & International Studies |isbn=978-1442228559 |url=https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=oovOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA213&dq=Hawkins+People%27s+Mujahedin+of+Iran&hl=fa&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6gPe39OLeAhWBnFkKHUuxBRoQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Hawkins%20People's%20Mujahedin%20of%20Iran&f=false}}</ref><ref name="Javadzadeh">{{cite book |last1=Javadzadeh |first1=Abdy |title=Iranian Irony: Marxists Becoming Muslims |publisher=RoseDog Press |isbn=978-1434982926 |page=170 |url=https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=ddae3eBHGK4C&pg=PA170&dq=Hawkins+People%27s+Mujahedin+of+Iran&hl=fa&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6gPe39OLeAhWBnFkKHUuxBRoQ6AEIMzAB#v=onepage&q=Hawkins%20People's%20Mujahedin%20of%20Iran&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Benliot |first1=Albert V. |title=Iran: Outlaw, Outcast Or Normal Country? |publisher=Nova Science Pub Inc; UK ed. edition |isbn=978-1560729549 |page=99 |url=https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=x1a6c2J49j4C&pg=PA99&dq=Hawkins+People%27s+Mujahedin+of+Iran&hl=fa&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6gPe39OLeAhWBnFkKHUuxBRoQ6AEIRDAE#v=onepage&q=Lewis%20Hawking&f=false}}</ref> – [[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]).<ref>{{cite book|title=Mujahedin-E Khalq (MEK) Shackled by a Twisted History|author= Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr. |year=2013|publisher=University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs|isbn=978-0615783840|pages=17 |quote=}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Camp Ashraf]]


== References ==
== References ==
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[[Category:People assassinated by the People's Mujahedin of Iran|*]]
[[Category:People assassinated by the People's Mujahedin of Iran|*]]
[[Category:People murdered in Iran|People's Mujahedin of Iran]]
[[Category:People murdered in Iran|People's Mujahedin of Iran]]

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

Assassinations

Heads of government branches

Members of Parliament

  • Reza Kamyab (28 July 1981)[1] – Mashhad
  • Mojtaba Ozbaki (23 December 1981)[2] – Shahrekord
  • Mohammad-Taqi Besharat (28 December 1981)[3] – Semirom
  • Mojtaba Esteki (21 January 1982)[4] – MP

Military and police officers

Other officials

American citizens

Lebanese citizens

Turkish citizens

  • Çağlar Yücel (12 December 1993)[23] – A diplomat at the embassy of Turkey in Iraq

Attempted assassinations

Heads of government branches

Members of Parliament

Military and police officers

Other officials

American citizens

Islamic Republic of Iran assassinations allegations against the MEK

Disputed Assassinations

See also

References

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