Ali Fallahian
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Hojjatoleslam Ali Fallahian, (born 1945), in Najafabad, Iran. He is an ultra-conservative Islamic cleric. He was minister of intelligence in Hashemi Rafsanjani's government.
He was also a member of the 3rd Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic.
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[edit] Terrorism convictions abroad
Fallahian is under an international warrant issued in 1996 by Germany because of his role in the Mykonos restaurant assassinations[1]. Sadeq Sharafkandi from Democratic party of Iranian Kurdistan and 3 of his colleagues were assassinated in Berlin in September 1992 by mixed Iranian-Lebanese agents. Fallahian was also the most prominent member of a group of five Iranians and Lebanese for whom international arrest warrants issued in March 2007. They were identified as the principal conspirators in the Buenos Aires Jewish cultural center bombing of 1994, which killed 85 people.
Ali Fallahian is also charged by a Swiss court[2][3][4]. with masterminding the assassination of Kazem Rajavi, a renowned human rights advocate, near Geneva in broad daylight by several intelligence ministry agents on 24 April 1990[5],
Saeed Emami (or Eslami), a controversial figure in Persian political and intelligence scene was the deputy of the ministry during Fallahian time. His previous deputy was Ruhollah Hosseinian.
[edit] Relation with Al Qaeda
Ayman al Zawahiri was a frequent guest of Ali Fallahian prior to the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington[6].
[edit] See also
| Preceded by Mohammad Reyshahri |
Chief of intelligence ministry of Iran ?-1997 |
Succeeded by Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi |
| Directors of intelligence agency of Iran |
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Pahlavi times (1957-1979) |
[edit] References and notes
- ^ Press Conference by the Press Secretary April 15, 1997 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
- ^ Swiss orders arrest of Iranian ex-minister April 9, 2006
- ^ http://www.stopfundamentalism.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=368&Itemid=80
- ^ http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200604/10/eng20060410_257175.html
- ^ http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/10/content_4403509.htm
- ^ IRAN AND AL QAEDA
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