Persian Realm

VOA’s Paris Correspondent Reza Chahid’s report on the Commemoration ceremonies for Shapour Bakhtiar and his secretary Soroush Khatibeh who were assassinated by IRI agents in the suburbs of Paris in Suresnes 20 years ago on the 7th of August 1991. The Ceremony was held in presence of France Bakhtiar (one of the remaining daughter of Shapour Bakhtiar) as well as several personalities of theLate Prime Minister’s Ministers.

(See BBC Persian’s Photo Essay of Ceremony Here)

VOA Report From Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris (Saturday August 7th, 2011):

Pro Bakhtiar Demonstrations at the time of the Revolution demanding theMaintaining of the 1906 Constitution:

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