Reza Taslimi is an Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian intelligence officer

Intelligence officer

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 (see Ministry of Intelligence and National Security of Iran) who has been involved in a number of state-sponsored assassination

Assassination

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s of Iranian political dissident

Dissident

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s abroad.

Taslimi has been linked to the assassination of Kurdish-Iranian activist Karim Mohammedzadeh

Karim Mohammedzadeh

Karim Mohammedzadeh was an eastern Kurdish dissident who was assassinated in Sweden in 1990.Karim Mohammedzadeh was born in eastern Kurdistan and came to Sweden as a political refugee in 1988 and immediately gained the right to asylum. On 1 April 1990 he was assassinated in his apartment in the...

 in Nynäshamn

Nynäshamn

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, Sweden

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, on April 1, 1990, and the assassination attempt on the Saudi Arabia

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n ambassador in Sweden one week earlier. In 1992, Taslimi was secretly deported out of Sweden by the Swedish Security Service

Swedish Security Service

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 without the regular police investigators getting any information or the opportunity to interrogate him (one possible reason for this is that he could've had the status of diplomatic immunity

Diplomatic immunity

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). He is also believed to have played a role in the planning of the Mykonos restaurant assassinations

Mykonos restaurant assassinations

In the Mykonos restaurant assassinations , Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and their translator Nouri Dehkordi were assassinated at the Mykonos Greek restaurant in Berlin, Germany on 17 September 1992.In the Mykonos trial, the German court...

 in Berlin

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, Germany

Germany

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in September 1992.