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April 18,
1983
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A
truck loaded with explosives blew up in front of the American embassy
in Beirut. 63 were killed and 120 more were injured. The Islamic Jihad
claimed responsibility. |
| 4 |
Oct. 23,
1983 |
The
headquarters of the U.S. Marines in Beirut was destroyed in a suicide
attack .242 dead, 80 seriously wounded. The Islamic Jihad claimed
responsibility. |
| 5 |
Oct. 23,
1983 |
The
headquarters of French troops in Beirut was destroyed in a suicide
attack. 58 were killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. |
| 6 |
August
1983 |
An
Air France 747 jumbo jet was hijacked after it took off from Vienna
airport en route to Tehran. The plane was blown up by the hijackers on
the tarmac of Tehran's Mehrabad airport. |
| 7 |
March 16,
1984 |
William
Buckley, political officer at U.S. embassy in Beirut, was abducted He
was secretly taken to Tehran, where he was killed in 1985. The Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility. |
| 8 |
April 12,
1984 |
Eighteen
U.S. servicemen were killed, and 83 people were injured in a bomb
attack on a restaurant near a U.S. Air Force Base in Torrejon, Spain.
Responsibility was claimed by Hizballah. |
| 9 |
Dec. 3,
1984 |
Peter
Kilburn, a librarian at the American University of Beirut, was abducted
by Iran's terrorist surrogates. He was killed in 1986. |
| 10 |
May 22, 1985 |
Michel
Seurat, a French writer, was kidnapped by mullahs' agents in Lebanon.
He was murdered three years later by the hostage-takers. |
| 11 |
June 14,
1985 |
A
TWA 727 Boeing was hijacked en route Rome - Athens and was diverted to
Beirut. One of the passengers on board who was a diver in the US Navy
was executed on the plane by the hijackers. |
| 12 |
1985 |
Two bombs planted in two restaurants in Kuwait resulted in the death of 10 people and the injury of 80. |
| 13 |
Nov. 9,
1985 |
French
police discovered a suitcase containing machineguns, handguns, grenades
and bullets in the luggage of Iran Air crew in Roissy Airport. |
| 14 |
Feb. 7,
1986 |
German
police announced that two suspected Iranian terrorists abandoned their
car and fled after they were pursued by the police. Their car had been
used in previous terrorist attacks in France and weapons and documents
were discovered in the car |
| 15 |
March 18,
1986 |
Tunisian
authorities announced that a terrorist group linked with Iran had been
uncovered and 20 of its members had been arrested. The group called
itself Hizbollah Al-Mokhtar |
| 16 |
Aug. 28,
1986 |
A
large quantity of explosives, plastic bombs and weapons were discovered
in the luggage of Iranian "pilgrims" arriving in Saudi Arabia for the
annual Hajj pilgrimage. Saudi police arrested 100 of the undercover
agents sent by the mullahs' regime |
| 17 |
September
1986 |
A
wave of bombings in public places shocked Paris. Fouad Ali Saleh was
convicted of killing 12 and injuring hundreds. He was arrested in March
1987 while transferring explosives into a car in Paris. |
| 18 |
July 1987 |
A
DC-10 plane belonging to Air Afrique was hijacked by terrorists of the
mullahs' regime. During the hijacking of the plane a French passenger
was killed in Vienna airport. Then-President of Switzerland said
Iranian government was responsible |
| 19 |
August 1,
1987 |
Iranian
regime's agents staged a riot in Mecca during the Moslem annual Haj
pilgrimage as part of a wider plan to destabilize the Saudi regime. The
Saudi government said 402 persons were killed and 650 were wounded. 85
Saudi policemen were among the dead. |
| 20 |
August 1,
1987 |
Embassies of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in Tehran were occupied by government-organized mobs and a diplomat was killed. |
| 21 |
Feb 17,
1988 |
U.S.
Marine Corps Lt. Col. W. Higgins was kidnapped and murdered by the
Iranian-backed Hizballah group while serving with the United Nations
Truce Supervisory Organization (UNTSO) in southern Lebanon. |
| 22 |
April 5,
1988 |
A
Kuwaiti 747 jumbo jet was hijacked in Bangkok and landed in Mashad,
eastern Iran. One of mullahs' terrorists of Lebanese origin boarded the
plane in Iran and led the terrorist operation. During 15-day ordeal,
two passengers were killed by hijackers. |
| 23 |
December
22, 1988 |
Pan Am flight 103 exploded in mid-air over Lockerbie in Scotland. |
| 24 |
May 27,
1989 |
Turkish
daily Hurriyet reported that a 14-man group trying to infiltrate into
Turkey from Iran to carry out terrorist attacks had been arrested. The
group's leader, Esmat Kamal, had been involved in the assassination of
a Saudi diplomat in Ankara.
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| 25 |
July 31,
1989 |
Colonel
William Higgins, an American officer working for the United Nations in
Lebanon, was abducted and executed by the Iranian regime's agents. A
video recording of his hanging was given to international news
agencies.
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| 26 |
1989 |
During Muslim annual Haj pilgrimage, three bombs were exploded around the holy site of Mecca. Scores of people were injured.
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| 27 |
Febrary
1989 |
Khomeini's religious decree to kill Salman Rushdie, an Indian born British author for writing Satanic Verses.
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| 28 |
Dec.23,
1989 |
Mehrdad
Kowkabi, an Iranian, was charged with attempted arson of a London
bookshop and planning a bomb attack in connection with Salman Rushdie |
| 29 |
Jan.30,
1990 |
French
Television Channel 1 broadcast an interview with Lotfi Ben-Khala, a
terrorist agent who was trained in Iran. He said the mullahs planned a
terrorist attack on a French nuclear facility that would have resulted
in 10,000 deaths.
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| 30 |
July 3,
1991 |
The
Italian translator of the Satanic Verses was stabbed and injured. The
assailant said that he was an Iranian who was looking for Rushdie's
whereabouts.
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| 31 |
July 21,
1991
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Prof. Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of Satanic Verses, was stabbed to death |
| 32 |
December
29, 1991
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Following
the arrest of one the mullahs' terrorists in Bern, the regime barred
the employees of the Swiss embassy from leaving Tehran
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| 33 |
March
1992 |
Relations
between Bern and Tehran were severed after an Iranian terrorist was
arrested in Switzerland. A Swiss businessman disappeared in Tehran.
Later it was discovered that he had been taken hostage.
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| 34 |
March 17,
1992 |
An attack against Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires resulted in the death of 20 and the injury of 250 people.
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| 35 |
Nov. 21,
1992 |
French police announced the arrest of two Iranians involved in several assassinations in Europe
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| 36 |
Dec. 29,
1992 |
Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat told Egypt's parliament that Iranian regime
finances HAMAS, Islamic Jihad and other radical groups and recently
paid them 30 million dollars.
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| 37 |
January 27,
1993 |
Turkish
Interior Minister said a terrorist network linked with the Iranian
regime carried out the assassination of Turkish journalist, Ugur Mumcu.
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| 38 |
January 27,
1993 |
Turkish
police arrested a group of Turkish Hezbollah members, who were trained
in Iran, and charged them with the killing of Hikmet Cettin, a Turkish
journalist
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April 25,
1993 |
New York Times reported that at least 100,000 dollars had been
deposited in the account of the prime suspects of the World Trade
Center bombing. The money primarily came from Iran |
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July 8,
1993
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Egyptian
security forces arrested 165 Islamic fundamentalists. Two of them had
been trained in a terrorist training center in Mashad, eastern Iran.
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| 41 |
October 11,
1993 |
The
Norwegian publisher of Salman Rushdie's book, Willian Nigaard, was hit
with three bullets from the back in an unsuccessful assassination
attempt |
| 42 |
June 2,
1994 |
AFP
reported that U.S. intelligence officials said Iran has secretly
planted 400 members of the Revolutionary Guards in Bosnia in order to
set up terrorist cells in the former Yugoslavia.
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| 43 |
June 3,
1994 |
Hossein
Shahriarifar, an Iranian terrorist, was arrested along with two other
Iranians in Thailand on charges of plotting to carry out a suicide
attack on Israel embassy in Bangkok. The truck was stopped by police as
he was driving to the embassy.
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July 6,
1994 |
Reuters
reported that the Filipino government has arrested an agent of the
Iranian regime named Hosseini on charges of providing financial support
for Abu Sayyaf group.
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| 45 |
July 15,
1994 |
The
foreign ministry of Venezuella announced that it had declared four
Iranian diplomats persona non grata and asked them to leave the country
after they were implicated in the attempted abduction of an exiled
Iranian.
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| 46 |
July 18,
1994
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Attack
against the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires led to the killing
of 26 and the injury of 127 people. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin blamed the bombing on the Iranian regime |
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July 31,
1994 |
Panama announced that two Iranians and a Lebanese had been arrested in connection with the bombing of an airliner on July 19.
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| 48 |
May 7,
1995 |
Swedish
government expeled to suspects from this country for having terrorist
conspiracies. The mullahs' regime take advantage of extrimist groups
for its terrorist goals.
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| 49 |
August
1995
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Germany
expelled two Iranian diplomats. The mullahs' embassy in Bonn intended
to dispatch a terrorist team to disrupt the Dortmund meeting in which
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi was due to make a speech
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August 21,
1995 |
Jerusalem
bus attack: Hamas claimed responsibility for the detonation of a bomb
that killed six and injured over 100 persons, including several U.S.
citizens.
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| 51 |
May 23,
1996 |
Palestinian
President Yasser Arafat said: "A clandestine group intended to
assassinate me. They acted upon a religious decree from Iran"
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| 52 |
June 5,
1996 |
The
interior Minister of Bahrain exposed a plan to topple the ruling family
by fundamentalist Shiites. The leader of the group, Ali Kazem
Almottaqavi, had been living in Iran since 1983. He was led by
Brigadier Ahmad Sharifi of Revolutionary Guards
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| 53 |
June
1996
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Government of Bahrain announces discovery of a local Hizbollah
terrorist cell, whose members were trained and sponsored by the Iranian
regime
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| 54 |
March 3,
1996 |
A powerful bomb exploded in Bethlehem by agents of the mullahs' regime
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| 55 |
March 13,
1996 |
The
leader of a fundamentalist terrorist group in Turkey was arrested by
police. He admitted that he was given weapons by mullahs' embassy in
Ankara to assassinate an anti-fundamentalist Turkish author |
| 56 |
April 10,
1996
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Four
diplomats of the mullahs' regime in Turkey were expelled because of
their role in the assassination of Ms. Zahra Rajabi and a Turkish
intellectual |
| 57 |
May 13,
1996 |
The
Iranian Resistance exposed a plan by the mullahs' Intelligence Ministry
to attack the residence of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Resistance's
president-elect, in a Paris suburb.
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| 58 |
Sept 24,
1996 |
An
Iranian diplomat was arrested and later explled by the government of
Tajikistan for his role in export of fundamentalism and terrorism to
this country.
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| 59 |
February 2,
1997 |
Turkish government expelled an Iranian diplomat for active involvement in exporting fundamentalism and terrorism to Turkey
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| 60 |
February
2,1997 |
Terrorists
were trained in Imam Sadeq training base near Qom. They were flown to a
third country from Tehran in spring 1996. They were transferred to
Saudi Arabia and implemented their plans.
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| 61 |
October
12,1998 |
A government-affiliated institution raised its bounty for Rushdie's head to 2.8 million dollars.
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| 62 |
August
23,1999 |
The
written testimony of Argentina's vice-president to the judiciary of
this country cited evidence pointing to Iranian regime's role in the
bombing a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires in July 1994. |