Dr. Abdolrahman Ghasemlou: Ambassador Of Peace, Victim Of Mullah’s Reign Of Terror

As Iran and Austria had a huge economic relationship worth more than billions of dollars, the Austrian government did not allow the police and judicial forces to do their investigations and sabotaged their affairs. Mostafayi then concluded that “Although this assassination was done in one of the world’s democratic countries, the terrorists did not get punished and after 32 years of that terror, the Austrian government is not ready yet to do investigation and do justice.”

After the assassination of Dr. Ghasemlou, PDKI in its congress elected Dr. Sadegh Sharafkandi as its next secretary general. He was also of the belief that PDKI should seek a peaceful solution for the Kurds in Iran. But as the Iran`s regime was not ready to provide Kurds rights, they assassinated him just three years after Ghasemlou`s assassination which was known as Mykonos.

Parwiz Dastmalchi survived the Mykonos terror attack and then published a book titled “Terror, Under The Name Of God, which describes the terrorism orchestrated by Iran’s regime.

He tells us what caused the regime to decide to assassinate Dr. Ghasemlou: “Dr.Ghasemlou wanted to unite the Kurds beyond Iran’s borders, so the IRGC commander in Kurdistan informed Tehran that Ghasemlou wanted to negotiate in order to decrease the political tension between Kurds and the regime. The regime feared that Ghasemlou would become the main political force in Kurdistan and then it would be very difficult to remove him.”

In December 1988, a diplomatic group, who were originally terrorists, secretly travelled to Vienna to participate in negotiations with PDKI leaders. The Iran`s group chairman was Mohammad Jafar Sahraroudi, accompanied by Mostafa Ajoudi and Ghafour Darjazi who killed Ghasemlou negotiating at the table. “Although the Kurdish leaders have no trust in Iran regarding negotiations after Khomeini died, Rafsanjani tried to convince them that he is a man of peace, so he sent his terrorists as diplomats to bring them to the negotiation table and to kill them,” Dastmalchi added.

The orchestrators of this crime were arrested by the police. Sahraroudi was injured and was interrogated by the police in hospital, as the two others were, but finally they were released and legally travelled to Tehran.

This confirms that the Austrian officials closed their eyes to that crime, which Dastmalchi believes occurred because the Austrian government sold weapons to Iran for the war with Iraq in defiance of an embargo. Some of the officials took bribes which Sahraroudi was aware of. Afraid to be identified, they released him. Dastmalchi believes that if the mullahs were held responsible for what they did in Vienna like they were in Berlin, the Vienna terror attack would never have happened.