January 03-2014
. . . supposedly seen dining in Hamburg
Two men accused in the 1981 bombings of the Iranian prime minister’s office and the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party have been spotted in Germany, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported last Wednesday.
Masud Kashmiri and Mohammad-Reza Kolahi-Samadi were both members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq, an unnamed source told IRNA.
The source said the two men were seen while dining in public in Cologne and then driving to Hamburg under fake identities. It wasn’t explained how they could be recognized when the most recent photos of them are a third of a century old.
Kolahi-Samadi was believed behind the massive bombing of the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party on June 28, 1981. Some 72 Iranian state officials and lawmakers, including then Judiciary Chairman Mohammad Beheshti, lost their lives in the blast.
Kashmiri is accused of masterminding the bombing of the office of President Mohammad-Ali Rajai in which he and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar both died nine weeks later on August 30, 1981. Both had been in those jobs only a few weeks.
The government of the Islamic Republic says nearly 17,000 Iranians have been killed in terrorist attacks since the 1979 revolution, of which 12,000 died at the hands of the Mojahedin-e Khalq.