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Austria has dossier implicating Iranian
president-elect in 1989 murder case
3.7.2005
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VIENNA, July 2 (AFP) - 16h09 - The Austrian
government has documents implicating the Iranian
president-elect in the 1989 assassination of a
Kurdish opposition leader in Vienna, an interior
ministry spokesman said Saturday.
"A dossier concerning Mr. Ahmadinejad was submitted
to the Federal Counter Terrorism Agency, which
handed it over to the public prosecutor's office,"
Rudolf Gollia told AFP.
He said the documents had been compiled by the
Austrian Green party's spokesman on security, Peter
Pilz, adding that so far no investigation had been
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Kurdish Leader Dr.Abdul-Rahman Qasimlo 1989 ┼
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Vienna's public prosecutor's office was not
available for comment on Saturday.
Austrian daily Der Standard quoted Pilz on Saturday
as saying "there are strong suspicions that
Ahmadinejad was involved in the assassination of
Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou in Vienna in 1989."
Ghassemlou was the leader of the Democratic Party of
Kurdistan -- an Iranian opposition party outlawed by
Tehran -- before he was slain on July 13, 1989 along
with two colleagues by never-apprehended commandos.
Pilz said that his evidence included testimony from
an Iranian journalist he met on May 20 in
Versailles, France.
The unnamed journalist claimed to have a detailed
account of the assassination from one of the
supposed members of the hit-squad -- Revolutionary
Guard General Nasser Taghipour -- who died three
years ago.
Pilz said that the source provided details that
could only be known by someone present at the scene
of the crime, and that they confirmed former Iranian
President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani had ordered the
killings.
Friday, the Czech daily Pravdo published the account
of a Iranian Kurdish opposition leader, currently
exiled in Iraq, that claimed Ahmadinejad was
involved in supplying the killers with arms used in
the Vienna assassination.
The allegations against Ahmadinejad follow other
recent accusations by former American hostages, who
say that he was among the militant students who took
them captive from the US Embassy in Teheran in 1979.
Close aides to Ahmadinejad insisted Saturday that he
played no role in the seizure of the hostages,
dismissing allegations of his involvement as a
"propaganda war".
AFP
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