Paris Match coverage on the first failed assassination plot against Shapour Bakhtiar which killed a French Policeman and a neighbor. (Circa July 1980)
Out of Paris, Shapour Bakhtiar led the National Movement of Iranian Resistance, which fought the Islamic republic in his homeland. In July 1980 he escaped an assassination attempt in his home in the Parisian suburb, Suresnes, which killed a policeman and a neighbor. But on August 7, 1991, Bakhtiar was murdered along with his secretary, Soroush Katibeh, by three assassins in his home. The inquest found that he was stabbed by a knife matching a nearby blood stained bread knife. Bakhtiar's dead body was not found until at least 36 hours after his death, despite the fact that he had heavy police protection and that his killers had left ID (presumably faked) with a guard at his house.[3] Two of the assassins escaped to Iran, but the third, Ali Vakili Rad, was apprehended in Switzerland,[4] as well as an alleged accomplice, Zeyal Sarhadi, a great-nephew of former president of Iran Hasemi Rafsanjani ,[5] and both were extradited to France for trial.[6] Vakili Rad was sentenced to life in prison in December 1994, although Sarhadi was acquitted.[7]
Shapour Bakhtiar is buried in Montparnasse Cemetery, in Paris.
Hours after the assassination of Shapour Bakhtiar, a British hostage was released from Lebanon, presumably held by Hezbollah, but a French hostage was taken.
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Licence to kill: When governments choose to assassinate
by Darius Kadivar on Sun May 27, 2012 01:44 AM PDTWhen governments choose to assassinate (bbc)
Can state-sponsored assassination work as a strategy? And can it ever be justified? Governments don't admit to it, but Iranian nuclear scientists know it happens - and it's not easy to distinguish assassination from the US policy of "targeted killing".
BRAVO SARKO ! ;0)
by Darius Kadivar on Thu Sep 24, 2009 01:19 AM PDTVIVE SARKOZY: The French President reiterated Today his admiration for the Iranian People and said that if the Iranian Regime thinks he would exchange the Assassin of Chapour Bakhtiar for an Innocent women whose Only crime was to love Iranian culture and the great Persian civilization, then they are Truly Out of their Minds. VIVE LA FRANCE !
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