With assassinations: Arm of Iranian terrorism reaches its opponents abroad

Nora Bandari

In the face of protests in Tehran over arbitrary government decisions, the mullahs’ regime used its repressive tactics to oppose it both at home and abroad, as it did not hesitate to kill its opponents.

Activists on Twitter reacted on November 22 and posted a video of a man shot in a street in Istanbul, claiming he was an opposition figure, Massoud Moloy.

The activists have accused the Iranian authorities and the government of Turkish President Erdogan, accusing it of participating with the Iranian regime in the killing of Maulavi because of its silence over the indictment of Iranian intelligence on the assassination.

Massoud Molavi, a 32-year-old dissident from Iran’s intelligence services, runs the Quetta Seyah channel via the Telegram website, which is responsible for spreading news about the corruption of the mullahs’ regime.

He studied civil engineering at the University of Najafabad, then computer science at the University of Tehran, until he received his doctorate from the University of Arizona in the United States in the field of artificial intelligence.

The reason for his death

The Iranian opposition leader Masoud Molavi settled in Turkey for years, and established a technical company, and followers are likely to be among the reasons that prompted the Iranian authorities to assassinate him because he gave advice to his followers in order to bypass the Internet in Iran.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned his Iranian ally of possible protests in Iraq, and Ankara has not commented on popular protests in Tehran and Iranian regions more than a week after the government moved three times the price of gasoline.

The Iranian opposition then accused the intelligence services of the mullahs of being behind the assassination of Said Karimian, who was wanted by the regime on charges of “spreading corruption and tarnishing the image of the regime.”

Also among the assassinations carried out by the mullahs against his opponents abroad are the assassination of the head of the struggle for the liberation of Ahwaz Ahmed Molly in front of his house in the Dutch city of The Hague in 2017, and the assassination of Rauf Reggie, leader of the Baloch Victory Army in the city of Quetta, western Pakistan in 2014, and the leader of the People’s Mujahideen Movement Zahra Rajabi in Istanbul, Turkey in 1996.

In January 2019, the German newspaper The Deutsche Zeitung reported that European intelligence agencies had spotted Tehran sending terrorist squads and assassinations to the White continent to liquidate opponents of the mullahs.

According to the Deutsche Zeitung report, between 1979 and 1994, the CIA monitored 60 full-scale assassination attempts against dissidents, many of them in Europe.

Silence sounds

Osama al-Hitimi, a journalist specializing in Iranian affairs, explains that the assassination of an Iranian dissident on Turkish soil is not the first of its kind. Others have been killed previously in assassinations, most notably the opposition ‘Said Karimian’ who was assassinated in April 2017 in Istanbul.

Osama Alhitimi said in a statement to the Reference that the goal of the assassination of Moloy at this time broadcast a strong message from the regime to all opponents at home and abroad, especially those who are making an effort to detect corruption, and help the people to circumvent the restriction that the system is practiced by Mawlawi, who played an important role in educating the masses.

The writer in Iranian affairs added that this system wants to send a message confirming that his opponents who participate in the momentum of the popular uprising can not be away from the hands of the security services.