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Iranian Resistance calls on Austria to reveal role of Ahamdinejad in murder of dissidents |
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Tuesday, 05 July 2005 |
 Iranian Resistance calls on Austrian government to reveal
role of Ahamdinejad, other Tehran leaders in murder of dissidents
In a letter to Austria’s Interior Minister Ms. Liese Prokop, Mr.
Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
National Council of Resistance of Iran, urged him to facilitate all
that is needed to investigate the role of the mullahs’ new president
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other regime leaders in the assassination of
dissidents in Vienna.
Subsequent to revelations about Ahmadinejad’s role in the Vienna
killings and calls political figures in that country for a probe into
these crimes, some Austrian circles have demanded a halt to any
investigation. The government-run Baztab website, operated by former
Revolutionary Guards Commander and Secretary to the State Expediency
Council Mohsen Rezai, wrote that the investigation would have a
destructive impact on signing lucrative business deals with Tehran.
Mr. Mohaddessin called on Ms. Prokop to stand firm in the face of these
pressures and not allow the most basic human principles and human
rights, for which millions of Europeans sacrificed their lives, to be
trampled upon. He said turning a blind eye to these terrorist crimes
only emboldens the regime to use terrorism as an instrument of foreign
policy.
NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee added, “In the past 16 years, the
Iranian people inside the country and Resistance’s activists and
dissidents abroad have paid a heavy price for European Union’s policy
of appeasement. The assassination of several dissidents in Vienna,
including Dr. Abdurrahman Qassemlou, and the murder of dozens of other
opponents in Switzerland, Italy, France, Turkey, Cyprus, Dubai, etc.,
by terrorists sent from Tehran were a direct result of the catastrophic
policy of appeasement.”
In 1986, Ahmadinejad joined the Revolutionary Guards’ Special Brigade
in Ramazan Garrison, headquartered in Kermanshah. The Garrison was
established by the IRCG Intelligence Directorate in 1986 and was
responsible for special operations and terrorist attacks in Iraq and
abroad. He was recruited by then-Garrison’s commander, Brig. Gen.
Mohammad Jafar Sahraroudi to take part in the assassination of Dr.
Qassemlou, then-Secretary General of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of
Iran. Sahraroudi led the operational team and was wounded during the
attack. Austrian officials, however, returned him and his other
accomplices to Tehran. Ahmadinejad led one of the two hit teams and
provided the weapons and ammunitions used in the attack after receiving
them from the Iranian embassy in Vienna.
In 1997, a court in Berlin cited undeniable evidence and documents to
implicate the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani as principals in the assassination of dissidents outside
Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 6, 2005 |
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