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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]]. According to infoplease.com, more than 16,000 people have been killed in attacks conducted by MEK since 1979.<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> From 26 August 1981 to December 1982, it orchestrated 336 attacks.<ref>{{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=204}}</ref> The MEK was the first group carrying out [[suicide|suicide attacks]] in Iran.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ramsey |first1=Jasmin |title=Iranian terrorist group has close US allies |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201184132732146192.html |website=aljazeera |accessdate=4 August 2011}}</ref><ref name="Milani001">{{cite web |last1=Milani |first1=Abbas |title=The Inside story of America's favorite Terrorist Group |url=http://web.stanford.edu/group/abbasmilani/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/The-Inside-Story-of-Americas-Favorite-Terrorist-Group.pdf |website=stanford.edu |accessdate=18 August 2011}}</ref> During the fall of 1981 more than 1,000 officials were assassinated, including [[Shahrbani|police]] officers, judges, and clerics. Later, many low ranking civil servants and members of the [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps|Revolutionary Guards]] were also targeted. It also failed to assassinate some key figures, including Iran's current leader [[Ali Khameni]]. When the security measures around officials improved, MEK started to target thousands of ordinary citizens who supported the government and ''Hezbollahi''s.<ref>{{citation|title=Terrornomics|editor=David Gold|page=67|isbn=978-1-317-04590-8|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|chapter=An Analysis of the Role of the Iranian Diaspora in the Financial Support System of the ''Mujahedin-e-Khalq''|author=Mark Edmond Clark}}</ref>

== 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
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* Colonel Houshang Vahid-Dastjerdi (5 September 1981)<ref name="UPI1981"/> – [[Shahrbani|Chief of Police]] of Iran
*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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* 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]]
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* 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]]
* [[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}}
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* [[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
* Robert R. Krongrad (28 August 1976)<ref name="GPO"/> – [[Rockwell International]] employee
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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>
* 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]] by using automatic firearm
* 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]]


=== 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" /><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" /><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]]

Revision as of 19:28, 30 January 2019

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

Assassinations

Heads of government branches

Government ministers

Members of Parliament

  • Mohammad Montazeri (28 June 1981)[2] – Najafabad
  • Gholam-Hussein Haghani (28 June 1981)[2] – Bandar Abbas
  • Fakhreddin Rahimi (28 June 1981)[2] – Malavi
  • Abbas-Ali Nateq-Nouri (28 June 1981)[2] – Nour
  • Reza Kamyab (28 July 1981)[2] – Mashhad
  • Hassan Ayat (5 August 1981)[3] – Tehran
  • Abdulkarim Hasheminejad (29 September 1981)[4] – Mashhad
  • Mojtaba Ozbaki (23 December 1981)[5] – Shahrekord
  • Mohammad-Taqi Besharat (28 December 1981)[6] – Semirom

Military and police officers

Other officials

American citizens

Lebanese citizens

Turkish citizens

  • Çağlar Yücel (12 December 1993)[27] – 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

References

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