{"id":7895,"date":"2010-03-09T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/iran-a-world\/7895-court-to-rule-on-parole-for-iranian-pm-killer"},"modified":"2010-03-09T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T05:21:00","slug":"court-to-rule-on-parole-for-iranian-pm-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-a-world\/court-to-rule-on-parole-for-iranian-pm-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Court to rule on parole for Iranian PM killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: France 24<br \/>A Paris court is set to rule on Tuesday whether to free an Iranian agent sentenced to life in prison for the 1991 assassination of a former Iranian prime minister outside Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Vakili Rad was convicted in 1994 for killing Shahpour Bakhtiar, the last Iranian premier under Shah Reza Pahlavi, who was deposed in the 1979 Islamic revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Bakhtiar and an aide were strangled and stabbed at Bakhtiar&rsquo;s home in the western Paris suburb of Suresnes. Prosecutors said the killing was a plot by Iran&rsquo;s clerical regime.<\/p>\n<p>Vakili Rad is serving a life sentence with no possibly of parole until July 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran hints at a possible exchange<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His parole request comes at a time when France is seeking the release of Clotilde Reiss, a 24-year-old French academic who was detained in the aftermath of Iran&rsquo;s disputed June 12 presidential election. Iranian prosecutors have accused Reiss of spying during a mass trial against post-election protesters and supporters, charges Reiss has denied.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with a French TV station in September, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hinted at a prisoner exchange. &ldquo;Do you know that there are some Iranians who have been in prison in France for years?&quot; he asked. &ldquo;These are prisoners too, they also have families.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>French President Nicolas Sarkozy has dismissed reports of a prisoner exchange, describing any talk of such an exchange as &quot;blackmail.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: France 24A Paris court is set to rule on Tuesday whether to free an Iranian agent sentenced to life in prison for the 1991 assassination of a former Iranian [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-7895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-iran-a-world","7":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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