No Safe Haven: Iran's Global Assassination Campaign

Since 1979, the senior leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been linked to at least 162 extrajudicial killings of the regime’s political opponents in 19 different countries around the world. These operations flourished in contravention of both international and national legal regimes, and were planned at the highest levels of state. Many of those responsible are still in power today. The IHRDC’s new report is the most authoritative study of Iran’s global campaign of political assassination to appear to date.

Table of Contents

1. PREFACE

2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

3. THE LONG ARM OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC

3.1. GENERAL MODUS OPERANDI

3.2. THE SUPREME LEADER

3.3. SPECIAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

3.4. MINISTRY OF INTELLIGENCE

3.5. THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS
The Quds Force

3.6. LEBANESE HEZBOLLAH

4. INDIVIDUAL CASES

4.1. SHAHRIAR SHAFIQ

4.2. ALI AKBAR TABATABAI

4.3. GENERAL GHOLAM ALI OVEISI

4.4. DR. ABDOL-RAHMAN GHASSEMLOU

4.5. KAZEM RAJAVI

4.6. DR. CYRUS ELAHI

4.8. MOHAMMAD HOSSEIN NAGHDI 

4.9. DR. REZA MAZLOUMAN

5. CONCLUSION

METHODOLOGY

APPENDICES