Partial List of the Documented Terrorist Activities of the Islamic Regime of Iran

 Based on Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act  (FSIA) Terrorist Exception, that exempts the immunity for the terrorist –sponsoring regimes, the Federal District Court of Columbia has heard a number of cases brought against the Islamic Regime of Iran. In all cases listed below, the court found the Islamic Republic of Iran guilty and awarded damages to the victims.

      1-     Flatow v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 999 F. Supp. 1 (D.D.C. 1998)

2-     Ciccipo Islamic Republic of Iran, 18 F. Supp. 2d (D.D.C. 1998)

3-     Anderson Islamic Republic of Iran, 90 F. Supp. 2d 107  (D.D.C. 2000)

4-     Elahi v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 124 F. Supp. 2d 97  1 (D.D.C. 2000)

5-     Eisenfeld v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 2000 WL 1918779 (D.D.C. 2000)

6-     Sutherland v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 2001 WL 705838 (D.D.C. 2001)

7-     Jenco v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 2001 WL 871766 (D.D.C. 2001)

In absence of any serious challenge or punishment for its involvement in international terrorism, Islamic Regime has continued and even intensified its terrorist activities, and from the beginning of the 1990s has emerged as the leading “power” in this field. A short statistical review will prove the point:

• Based on the State department sources quoted by the Washington Times in 10/16/2001, IRI spends$100 million a year on Hezbollah and gives it arms, the delivery of which is coordinated by 150 of Tehran’s elite Revolutionary Guards stationed at a Hezbollah training camp in Lebanon. The same Hezbollah that killed 241 U.S. military personnel in a 1983 truck bombing in Beirut and blew up 19 U.S. airmen at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996.

• As reported in New Yorker Magazine on May 9, 2001, a few days before leaving office, Louis Freeh, the FBI Director, handed over a list of senior Iranian officials who he says should be charged with the 1996 bombing at Khobar Tower. The list includes the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Brigadier General Ahmad Sherifi. Ahmad Vahidi, head of the al-Quds section of the Revolutionary Guard is also known to be responsible for backing Hizbollah in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. The article added that: “ Any indictment are likely to name Iranian intelligence, commonly believed to be the source of terrorist activities”

• The State Department Report in 2000 says, “ Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corp and the ministry of Intelligence and Security continued to be involved in the planning and execution of terrorist acts and continued to support a variety of groups that use terrorism to pursue their goals.”

• During the years 1979-1996 some 70 Iranian opposition leaders and activists have been assassinated by Iranian agents or proxy agents, i.e. terrorists belonging to radical Islamic groups and organizations. (For reference see: “Appendix to Action Memorandum 011: Alleged victims of Iranian government ‘hit squads’, 1979-1996”, Foundation for Democracy, 6 May 1966.)

• In 1996 the German judicial authorities accused the highest echelons of the Iranian regime of being responsible for the assassination of four Kurdish opposition leaders in Berlin on September 12, 1992. In April 1997 a German court concluded that the Iranian government was directly implicated in these murders (the so-called Mikonos affair).

• This limited space does not permit listing all IRI’s terrorist activity. However, last but not least, we should indicate that the IRI has been terrorizing Iranian people since its conception through the use of torture, imprisonment, and execution, including the massacre of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 (4500 victims have been identified so far.)