The NYTimes Lede Blog has a fascinating story about Hassan Abdulrahman, an American ex-pat living in Tehran who runs the web site for Press TV, Iran's English language state news outlet. He's perhaps best known for an assassination he carried out on American soil at Iran's behest.
"At first, Mr. Abdulrahman told The New Yorker in 2002, he tried to convince the Iranians to let him kill a more prominent American target. He suggested either Henry Kissinger or Kermit Roosevelt — a grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt who had orchestrated the 1953 plot to depose Iran’s prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and return the Shah to power. But his Iranian handlers were less concerned with striking a symbolic blow than with eliminating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, the exile who was holding meetings of a counter-revolutionary group at his home in Bethesda at the time."
Seriously, an American national carrying out an assassination for a foreign power on US soil? Wow.
Meanwhile, things in Iran have calmed down quite a bit since the election, but there are still things bubbling under the surface. Just this week opposition leaders called for a rally on Friday, during Qods day.
Some background on Iran:
- Iran: Underneath the Headlines, our hour special on the Iran election
- America's Secret War with Iran: Vanguard
"At first, Mr. Abdulrahman told The New Yorker in 2002, he tried to convince the Iranians to let him kill a more prominent American target. He suggested either Henry Kissinger or Kermit Roosevelt — a grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt who had orchestrated the 1953 plot to depose Iran’s prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and return the Shah to power. But his Iranian handlers were less concerned with striking a symbolic blow than with eliminating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, the exile who was holding meetings of a counter-revolutionary group at his home in Bethesda at the time."
Seriously, an American national carrying out an assassination for a foreign power on US soil? Wow.
Meanwhile, things in Iran have calmed down quite a bit since the election, but there are still things bubbling under the surface. Just this week opposition leaders called for a rally on Friday, during Qods day.
Some background on Iran:
- Iran: Underneath the Headlines, our hour special on the Iran election
- America's Secret War with Iran: Vanguard
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Seriously, an American national carrying out an assassination for a foreign power on US soil? Wow.
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