Alleged Iran Assassination Attempt Against Kurdish Politician Fails – The alleged assassin is yet to be apprehended

EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN) – 09.08.2015 12:13 Basnews – ERBIL – The Iranian government is being accused of a failed assassination attempt on an Iranian Kurdish politician on Saturday.

The opposition Komala Party claims that the Iranian intelligence service attempted to assassinate their deputy leader, Reza Kaabi, in the town of Qaradagh, north of Sulaymaniyah. The unsuccessful assassin used a silenced pistol.The Komala statement blames the assassination attempt on an Iranian spy, working undercover in the party.The spy, Farid Ahmadi, fled in a waiting car and has not yet been arrested. The Tehran government has killed several Iranian Kurdish leaders in the past, such as KDP-I head Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou in Vienna in 1989 and his successor Sadegh Sharafkandi in 1992 in Berlin.In the recent years the state-sponsored assassination of Kurdish leaders has all but ended.