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cyrus Site Admin
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:50 am Post subject: Dr. Kazem Rajavi assassination By Mullahs: 15-year probe |
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Dr. Kazem Rajavi a Switzerland University Professor Assassination By Mullahs
Swiss press on with 15-year probe into killing of Iranian opposition leader
Sun. 24 Apr 2005
AFP
GENEVA - A Swiss magistrate said this weekend that he was pressing ahead with an investigation into the assassination of exiled Iranian opposition leader Kazem Rajavi in Switzerland exactly 15 years ago on Sunday.
"It is a case that is still being dealt with as a priority matter. The investigation will be pursued to the end," Jacques Antenen, an investigating magistrate in the western Swiss canton of Vaud, told Swiss television TSR.
Rajavi was shot dead in his car in a village near Geneva on April 24, 1990, allegedly by Iranian government agents who fled Switzerland.
Swiss authorities have never brought anyone to justice in the case. Most of the 13 suspects fled or held diplomatic passports while Iran's Islamic regime did not respond to requests for assistance.
Two suspects were later arrested in Paris, but the French government ignored a Swiss extradition request that was backed by French courts, invoking higher "national interest" to expel them to Iran in December 1993.
In 1997, a Swiss magistrate said he "clearly" had enough evidence to justify an international arrest warrant against Iran's then information minister, Ali Fallahian, according to documents released by Radjavi's family.
However, he decided not to follow through because of the risk of reprisals against Switzerland, while Fallahian was wanted in Germany.
Rajavi's son said tacit concerns about damaging ties with Iran had later hampered the investigation in Switzerland.
"I think Swiss justice has all the elements that would allow an arrest warrant against Mr Fallahian. There's just a lack of will," he said.
Fallahian was also implicated by German prosecutors in the killing of four Kurdish opponents of Iran's Islamic regime in 1992.
Antenen, who took over the case recently, is due to head to Argentina, where authorities issued a warrant for Fallahian following the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires that killed 84 people.
He said he wanted to continue to come up with hard evidence because of the "international ramifications". Antenen insisted he was not under political pressure.
Neutral Switzerland has represented US interests in Tehran since Washington broke off diplomatic relations with Iran in 1980.
Source: http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1929 |
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Khorshid
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 459
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:24 am Post subject: |
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Court eyes Iranian assassination case
By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Published April 25, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Justice Department Monday to weigh in on a a case involving the assassination of an Iranian dissident in Paris.
Dr. Cyrus Elahi was a naturalized U.S. citizen and a high official in an Iranian opposition group. His body was found shot seven times in the lobby of his Paris residence in October 1990 -- only the latest in a series of assassinations of Iranian opposition figures abroad.
French police arrested a number of Iranian nationals "and determined that the assassination had been orchestrated by the Iranian government through the (Ministry of Information and Security, MOIS in its Iranian acronym)."
Elahi's brother, Dariush Elahi, filed suit in the United States against Iran and MOIS. Representatives of Iran did not show for trial and a judge awarded $12 million in damages.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the judge.
Before it decides whether to review the case, the Supreme Court asked the Justice Department for a brief "expressing the views of the United States."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050425-102008-2502r.htm
Cyrus Elahi was with the Flag of Freedom, a Monarchist group of course. He was shot not once, or twice, but six times in the head in his Paris apartment.
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Khorshid
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 8:53 am Post subject: |
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Trial Begins in Rome for Murder of Iranian
Wednesday May 11, 2005 11:31 PM
ROME (AP) - The trial opened Wednesday of an Iranian accused in the 1993 slaying of an Iranian dissident who died in a hail of automatic gunfire as he was being driven along a Rome street.
Lawyers for the victim's family allege that the defendant, Amir Mansur Assl Bozorgian, who is being tried in absentia, was sent by Iran's leaders to murder dissident Mohamad Hosein Naghdi.
Naghdi, 42, was killed when a gunman opened fire from a motorcycle while the victim was being driven to his office. The two people aboard the motorcycle fled.
To read the rest:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4999434,00.html
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