Iran president has been invited to come to Austria and be questioned 7.7.2005

AKI Crises Today, AKI's research arm, in a dossier published ahead of the Iranian presidential elections, referred to the Austrian investigations into the possible involvement of the then mayor of Tehran, now Iran's president, in the murder of Abdolrahman Ghassemlu.

The alleged involvement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 1989 killing was first revealed by Austrian Green MP Peter Pilz, who claims he received the information from a source in the Iranian secret services who recently sought refuge in France.

Ghassemlu, 58, had arrived in Vienna in the summer of 1989 for a secret meeting in a suburban apartment with two envoys of Iran's then president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani. The Kurdish delegation was to discuss with the Tehran envoys the possibility of a ceasefire in Iranian Kurdistan.

Just a few minutes after the start of the meeting, at which two members of the Revolutionary Guards were present, a group of armed men burst into the room and killed Ghassemlu and his two assistants.

According to an Iranian dissident, quoted last week in a Czech republic newspaper, Ahmadinejad personally delivered the weapons for the killers to the Iranian embassy in Vienna.

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