July
11, 2009
20 years ago, on 13 July 1989, a legendary Kurdish
leader and then the Secretary-general of Democratic
Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Dr. Abdul-Rahman
Ghassemlou and two of his associates were killed in
an apartment in the outskirts of the Austrian
capital Vienna where they were holding secret talks
with envoys sent by then Iranian president Akbar
Hashemi Rafsanjani.
In spite of credible evidence on the direct
involvement of dispatched diplomat-terrorists of the
Islamic regime in this tragedy, then the government
of Austria sacrificed justice for her country’s
political and commercial interests and allowed the
three suspected accomplices who had taken refuge in
the Iranian embassy after the 1989 killings to slip
out of Austria without ever being questioned by the
Austrian authorities.
Recently, new convincing evidences have surfaced on
the Iranian regime’s involvement, above all Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad,www.ekurd.net
the current regime’s
president in the 1989 execution-style attack
obtained from the testimony given to the Italian
police by a jailed German arms dealer, who said he
had supplied Ahmadinejad with weapons in Vienna
shortly before Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou's
assassination.
AFP reported that “the German, who made his
statement to Italian anti-Mafia officers in 2006,
said he was in contact with Iranian intelligence
services in 1989 regarding arms deals. Shortly
before the killing, he said he delivered in the
first week of July 1989 half a dozen light weapons
at a meeting at the Iranian embassy in Vienna.”
Furthermore, the Associated Press reported that
“Peter Pilz, a top official with Austria’s Green
Party and its spokesman on security said he wants a
warrant issued for Ahmadinejad’s arrest, alleging
the president-elect “stands under strong suspicion
of having been involved” in the killings of Kurdish
politician Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou and two
associates by providing weapons to the Iranian
commandos who carried out the slaying.”
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Former KDPI Kurdish leader Dr.Abdul Rahman Qassemlou
(Qasimlo, Ghassemlou), assassinated in Vienna 1989.
Photo: KURDNET Archive
Dr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou and two of his
associates were killed in an apartment in the
outskirts of the Austrian capital Vienna where they
were holding secret talks with envoys sent by then
Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. |
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Austrian Times also
reported that “Pilz claimed there had been two
Iranian teams involved in the assassinations - a
negotiations team and an execution team. Pilz said
Ahmadinejad had been responsible for gathering and
preparing the weapons used and had been a member of
the execution team.”
Nonetheless, the Austrian officials deem these
convincing evidences insufficient to kick-off any
investigations fearing retaliation from the Iranian
government and severing business ties with the
regime of Tehran.
We are gathering on MONDAY, July 13, 2009 to pay
tribute to a man who paid with his life the price of
peace and freedom,www.ekurd.net
but most importantly we
will be assembled there to appeal to the Austrian
authorities in particular Austria’s Interior
Ministry and the Federal Counterterrorism Agency to
fully cooperate with any upcoming investigations and
provide any classified documents that they have
withheld so far pertaining to this case. We demand
the Austrian authorities to respect international
laws and the independency of the Austrian judiciary
and bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice
as in the Mykonous trial in Germany in 1997 where
the Iranian government’s involvement in the Mykonous
murder of 1992 was exposed at the highest level by
an independent German court.
Date: Monday, July 13, 2009 - Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm
- Location: Austrian Embassy Washington - Street:
3524 International Court NW.
City/Town: Washington, DC.
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