Ali Fallahian

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Ali Fallahian

Ali Fallahian or Fallahijan ( Persian علی فلاحیان; * 1945 in Najafābād ) is an Iranian politician and cleric with the religious title Hodschatoleslam . In Germany, the former secret service minister of Iran is wanted by arrest warrant , Interpol has issued him for arrest for complicity in the attack in Buenos Aires in 1994 .

Life

From July 1989 to August 1997, during the tenure of Ali Akbar Hāschemi Rafsanjāni as President of Iran, he was head of the Iranian secret service VEVAK . Mohammed Khatami dismissed the controversial secret service minister and replaced him with Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi . Today Fallahian is a member of the influential Expert Council .

During his tenure as secret service minister, VEVAK carried out numerous attacks on Iranian opposition members inside and outside Iran. The most spectacular attacks were:

  • The assassination of the first Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, Kazem Rajavi, in Geneva on April 24, 1990.
  • The Mykonos assassination attempt on September 17, 1992 on members of the DKP-I , in which Iranian citizens were murdered on behalf of Iranian government agencies on German territory and in which Fallahian was involved and against which he announced “decisive strikes” in advance.
  • The 1994 bomb attack on the Jewish cultural center AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina) in Buenos Aires with 85 dead and more than 200 injured. There is an international arrest warrant from Interpol on Fallahian.
  • In the 1990s, the chain murders against Iranian opposition activists , for whom, after Akbar Ganji Fallahian, whom he is said to have referred to as “Passepartout”, was the key figure.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice: arrest warrant. The ... Ali Fallahijan ... is on remand. ... He is urgently suspected of having killed four people and tried to kill one person through the same act on September 17, 1992 in Berlin together with others, for low motives, insidiously and with means dangerous to the public; - punishable as a crime according to §§ 211, 25 Abs. 2, 23, 52 StGB - , Karlsruhe, March 14, 2996, file number: 2 B-Js 295 / 95-8, quoted from a facsimile print in
    Norbert Siegmund: Der Mykonos-Prozess. A terrorist trial influenced by foreign policy and secret services. Germany's uncritical dialogue with Iran . LIT, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-8258-6135-X . The 175-page appendix contains numerous original documents in facsimile
  2. ↑ a b Wanted FALLAHIJAN, Ali ( memento from December 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) interpol.int (accessed on January 23, 2012)
  3. ^ Berliner Morgenpost, January 23, 2012: Europe is serious about embargo against Iran
  4. ↑ Condemned by Law iran.hrcdc November 2008
  5. ↑ IRAN: “MYKONOS” TRIAL PROVIDES FURTHER EVIDENCE OF IRANIAN POLICY OF UNLAWFUL STATE KILLINGS (PDF; 41 kB) amnesty.org of April 10, 1997
  6. ↑ Christopher de Bellaigue: In the rose garden of the martyrs. A portrait of Iran. Translated from the English by Sigrid Langhaeuser, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2006 (English original edition: London 2004), pp. 295–297
personal data
SURNAME Fallahian, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fallahijan, Ali; علی فلاحیان (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian politician and cleric with the religious title Hodschatoleslam
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Najafābād