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Source: https://jcpa.org/iranian-official-reveals-how-we-eliminated-regime-opponents-in-europe/
Iranian Official Reveals: How We Eliminated Regime Opponents in Europe
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Aviram Bellaishe - In an interview published on March 8, 2025, by the Iranian news website Didar-e Ban-e Iran, Mohsen Rafighdoost - a former Minister of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and one of the key figures in the Islamic Revolution - said the Iranian regime, through the IRGC, assassinated a series of exiled opponents in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s. In the interview, Rafighdoost listed generals, a former prime minister, and cultural figures who were assassinated in Europe by dedicated hit squads, sometimes using collaborators from the Basque separatist movement ETA. Rafighdoost described direct threats he made to the French government to secure the release of Anis Naccache, an Iranian-Lebanese agent imprisoned after a failed assassination attempt on former prime minister Bakhtiar in Paris in 1980. "I met with the Foreign Minister and said: If after two weeks your embassy blows up or one of your planes is hijacked - don't complain." According to Rafighdoost, the threat worked: France released Naccache. The writer, Senior Director for Security, Diplomacy, and Communications at the Jerusalem Center, has served in senior government positions for over 25 years.