The Islamic Regime of Iran sees terror as a legitimate tool for both internal and foreign purposes. Iran regime will continue to use measures like terrorism, espionage, assassination, hostage taking to safeguard its survival and to bring forth its objectives and ideology.
Tehran terrorism targets not only Iranian activists and critical voices around the world but also American and Western individuals & installations.
The rate of killing reduces when Iran regime is confronted by a tough policy and increases when the international community has a more accommodating approach.
On September 17th 1992, Dr Sadegh Sharafkandi and his delegation were assassinated in a restaurant known as Mykonos in Berlin. He was in Berlin to attend the Congress of Socialist International which was held there during 14 to 17 of September 1992.
On April 10th 1997, a verdict came from Berlin’s High Criminal Court with regard to Mykonos Case in which the Supreme Leader of Iran was announced as the direct commander who ordered the assassination, Iran president at the time, minister of foreign affair och minister of intelligence as the administrative agencies assigned to carry out the assassination in Berlin.
During the Court which took almost 4 years, there was a witness known as witness C “Abolghasem Mesbahi” who revealed the structure and the process of any assassination carried out abroad and outside Iran. He was a member of intelligence service in Iran prior to leaving Iran. Under oath he mentioned that Iran embassy in Germany in Bonn was the main headquarter to organize and realize many of those assassinations carried out in Western Europe during the period when Hossein Mosawiyan was the ambassador of Iran in Germany.
It seems very naive to believe that the ambassador was completely out of the picture when Iran regime assign the minister of foreign affair and when the Iran Embassy is the headquarter where so many gatherings and planning and accommodating the terror group is happening. It happened in the same building where Hossein Mosaviyan was the head of that office.
The case known as Mykonos case is one the most significant Judiciary cases when the Judiciary system does not obey the Political system and keeps its independence under the comprehensive pressure coming from the German Politicians and authorities as well as the threats coming from Iran regime.
The independence of Geman judiciary system could save the lives of so many under period 1997 to 2015 when Iran regime committed to avoid terror in Europe soil after the Berlin Verdict.
Now it is time for Prinston University as a prestigious and well known and high status university in the Academic World, to defend its fame and its name; to take distance from those who have been involved in Iran regime plans for terrorism.
Sadegh Sharafkandi was born 11th of January 1938 in Taragha and raised in Mahabad. He received scholarship from Sorbonne University in Paris and received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry in 1976 and returned to Iran to work for its own people. He was a devoted lecturer and his students never forget him.
In Paris got Sadegh familiar with Dr Ghassemou and got involved in Politics.
After Iran revolution and when Khomeini announced Jihad Fatwa against Kurdistan, Sadegh had to leave Tehran since Islamic regime intended to arrest him. He was pursuing democracy and freedom of choice for his nation. He became Secreterary General of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan when Dr. Ghassemlou was assassinated in Vienna by the Iranian agents at the negotiation table.
The party members who worked with him says he was down to earth, great leader, very responsible, kind, loyal, trustworthy and known for his thinking out of the box.
When my father lost his brother, I saw my father’s tears for the first time and I never forget him saying that I know that Sadegh innocent blood reveal its killers.
Sadegh is now buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris just 150 meters away from his idol Dr Ghassemlou.
He devoted his life pursuing and struggling for freedom, democracy and pluralism. He never could see his children growing up.
