tags: Iranian Terror Operations, Church/Christian attacked, fraud, terrorism ruled out, Stratfor, robbery cover story, shooting at car, Paris, Texas
2 killed in possibly connected assassinations:
Monday January 16, 2012 Iranian activist Gelareh Bagherzadeh shot to death Gelareh Bagherzadeh was an Iranian-born woman, newly converted to Christianity who was an anti-government activist when she was in Iran. She was shot through the passenger side window just before she arrived at home, and she crashed slumped over the steering wheel. Police did not believe she was targeted because of her heritage or because she was an activist, but Stratfor Global Intelligence, said Iranian intelligence services work in secretive ways and the shooting bore many of the signs of a government sponsored assassination since she had also traveled to Paris. Police told ABC that they don't think that's why she was killed. "It's not believed that she was targeted because of her ethnicity or because she was an activist," Houston Police Department spokesman Victor Senties said. Police said her cell phone and wallet were still in the car, but they are not ruling out robbery as a motive, KTRK-TV reported.
November 12, 2012 Coty Beavers was murdered in his home on Houston Murder Mystery: Human Rights Activist And Boyfriend's Brother Killed 10 Months Apart Ten months after an Iranian-born human rights activist was gunned down in her car, her boyfriend's twin brother was riddled with bullets in his home, ... Though she was an outspoken critic of the human rights abuses in Iran, her family and friends don't believe she was killed because of her political views, Fox News said. mystery deepened on Monday when Coty Beavers was found killed, KPRC reported. His twin brother, Cory, was the last person to see Bagherzadeh alive. Beavers, 28, was found Monday afternoon with multiple gunshot wounds, according to CBS Houston. He had been last seen walking his wife to her car before 6 a.m. The motive is unknown and there are no suspects yet in the Beavers murder. Bagherzadeh, 30, a molecular genetics student, was driving home, talking on her cellphone, when she was shot. Her car crashed to a halt in a garage. Nothing was taken from her car, fueling speculation that she was killed because of her human rights work or for converting to Christianity in 2011
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November 12, 2012 Coty Beavers was murdered in his home on Houston Murder Mystery: Human Rights Activist And Boyfriend's Brother Killed 10 Months Apart Ten months after an Iranian-born human rights activist was gunned down in her car, her boyfriend's twin brother was riddled with bullets in his home, ... Though she was an outspoken critic of the human rights abuses in Iran, her family and friends don't believe she was killed because of her political views, Fox News said. mystery deepened on Monday when Coty Beavers was found killed, KPRC reported. His twin brother, Cory, was the last person to see Bagherzadeh alive. Beavers, 28, was found Monday afternoon with multiple gunshot wounds, according to CBS Houston. He had been last seen walking his wife to her car before 6 a.m. The motive is unknown and there are no suspects yet in the Beavers murder. Bagherzadeh, 30, a molecular genetics student, was driving home, talking on her cellphone, when she was shot. Her car crashed to a halt in a garage. Nothing was taken from her car, fueling speculation that she was killed because of her human rights work or for converting to Christianity in 2011
- How can the idiot cops rule something so obvious out so soon? Super geniuses
- Expect to see more of this sort of thing, folks, as the Iranian mullas and their Revolutionary Guard undercover operatives go after vulnerable targets here and in Europe in reprisal for Israel's covert murder operations inside Iran. You can be certain that they have sleepers in
- the US awaiting orders, apparently receiving orders now, as has been apparent for a while in Europe. They will take the easier targets, which means all too often the most innocent. The mullas hope to bring pressure on the US and European nations to hold the Israelis back. It's a stupid game--all of it. Humanity on the slide again.
- Stratfor Global Intelligence, said Iranian intelligence services work in secretive ways, with motives that aren't always clear...fact that the victim lived in Paris and traveled widely in Europe could have made her far more important to Iranian intelligence than her dissident activities in the United States.
- Houston police said they are stuck and will follow any lead, even those involving Iranian conspiracies, if it will lead them to the killer.
- Two years ago, CNN reported on what local police in Glendora, California, said was Iranian involvement in the attempted assassination of an Iranian dissident radio broadcaster by running him over with a van purchased with money from Iran
- Reza Sadeghnia pleaded guilty in plot to kill an Iranian-American dissident http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/04/siu.calif.iran.hit.foiled/index.html
- Gelareh Bagherzadeh was an Iranian-born woman, newly converted to Christianity.
- "The evidence indicated that she had been shot through the passenger side window," Houston Police Sgt. J.C. Padilla said. "She was shot one time, and an autopsy revealed she had been shot in the head."
- the boyfriend heard a scream followed by tires screeching and then silence. She was found slumped over the steering wheel, the tires of the car still spinning because it had crashed into a garage in a nearby condominium complex. The ex-boyfriend, according to police, is not considered a suspect.
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April 22, 2015 NEW CHARGES FILED IN ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLING' OF IRANIAN STUDENT, BEST FRIEND'S HUSBAND http://abc13.com/news/new-charges-filed--in-alleged-honor-killing/676547/ Ali Irsan's attorney, John Floyd, is disputing the ones already filed. Floyd says the accused Irsan family members are not Islamic extremists and called the district attorney's charges ludicrous. "I'm afraid the district attorney's comments today, ascribing some sort of extremist, religious motivation to this case, is very disturbing," Floyd said
April 22, 2015 3 suspects charged with 2012 shooting death of Iranian activist KHOU - 2 days agoGelareh Bagherzadeh, a 30-year-old researcher at MD Anderson, was shot to death outside ...
April 22, 2015 Dad, son charged with murder in high-profile deaths of Iranian activist, friend KPRC Houston
April 22, 2015 Capital murder charges filed in case involving death of Iranian activist
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May 2014 fraud scheme federal fraud charges for what authorities say was his involvement in a benefits scheme. Ali Irsan told U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Johnson during an initial court appearance Tuesday he had only about $800 to his name and would need an appointed attorney. Ali's wife and daughter, arrested last week, also are charged in the alleged benefits scheme
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Gelareh Bagherzadeh - Huffington Post www.huffingtonpost.com/news/gelareh-bagherzadeh/
The Huffington PostHOUSTON — As a new American resident, Gelareh Bagherzadeh frequently embraced her freedom to speak critically about human rights policies in her.
Suspect held in 2012 Galleria-area slaying - Houston ... www.houstonchronicle.com/.../Suspect-held-in-2012-Galleria-area-slayin... May 22, 2014 - The father, a strict Muslim, was furious when his Jordanian-American daughter married a man without his permission. Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan ... Muslim Killer on Disability and Food Stamps had Diamonds and 200 Credit Cards
June 20, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield 16 Comments
This sort of thing is surprisingly common. The only reason it has come to light is because the Muslim settler committed two murders, one of which he actually got away with.
The Point has discussed the murder of Gelareh Bagherzadeh before. Gelareh Bagherzadeh was an Iranian Christian who came to this country only to be murdered by a Muslim because she encouraged his daughter to marry the man she loved.
He was too disabled to work. But not too disabled to kill.
The father, a strict Muslim, was furious when his Jordanian-American daughter married a man without his permission.
Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan blamed his daughter’s husband, relatives say. They say he also faulted one of her closest friends, 30-year-old Gelareh Bagherzadeh, a Christian convert who widely denounced Islam.
First Bagherzadeh was killed, gunned down outside her parents’ Galleria townhouse complex in January 2012. Eleven months later, Irsan’s son-in-law died after being shot multiple times in the northwest Harris County apartment he shared with his wife.
And Ali thought he could get away with it because he had already gotten away with so many other things.
Federal authorities executed a search warrant at Irsan’s sprawling, 5-acre property 40 miles north of Houston, where they allegedly found cash, diamonds, pearls, weapons and phony passports hidden in attic rafters, in secret compartments throughout a cluster of trailers and outbuildings and even inside the buried drum of a clothes dryer at the Conroe property.
Irsan, his wife Shmou Ali Alrawabdeh, and another daughter were subsequently arrested on a variety of federal fraud charges and are in federal custody.
A federal criminal complaint detailing the discoveries recounts a saga of nearly 20 years in which the 57-year-old naturalized citizen from Jordan and his family allegedly scammed taxpayer disability assistance funds claiming “fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue symptoms,” and “affective disorders” while secreting real estate, vehicles and cash in U.S. and foreign bank accounts.
The complaint also alleges Irsan was receiving taxpayer funds for a son not living in the U.S., maintained several addresses on the property to facilitate various schemes and once disabled a safety feature on a saw then purposefully cut himself to receive a $75,000 settlement.
Ali was certainly industrious and entrepreneurial, just not quite in the way amnesty advocates like to claim.
Also found on the property was a makeshift gun range, which witnesses said “five or six Muslim families” frequently visited to fire AK-47s and information about Irsan’s attempts to get a silencer.
Nothing to do with Islam I’m sure.
While there have been no allegations of terrorist ties regarding the family’s alleged foreign bank accounts and suspicious wire transactions, Irsan’s strict adherence to radical Islam may have been a motive in the alleged murders.
Authorities are also re-examining a 1999 case in which Irsan was not indicted after claiming self-defense in the shooting of son-in-law Amjad Alidam, who was married to Nasemah Rachelle Irsan.
And that’s not all.
Prosecutors also revealed, in connection to the social security fraud and credit card charges against Irsan, that they found more than 200 credit cards with various names and multiple variations of his own name throughout the Irwin Keel home. Arresting officers say they also found more than 40 similar credit cards in his wallet the morning he was arrested.
His daughter also alleges, among multiple other schemes detailed in court documents, that Ali Irsan purposely disabled the safety device on a Ryobi rotary saw and purposely cut his own foot. Prosecutors say he used that injury to receive a $75,000 settlement from the manufacturer.
Gelareh Bagherzadeh - Huffington Post www.huffingtonpost.com/news/gelareh-bagherzadeh/
The Huffington PostHOUSTON — As a new American resident, Gelareh Bagherzadeh frequently embraced her freedom to speak critically about human rights policies in her.
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Murder of Iranian activist pulls cover off Texas family's ... www.foxnews.com/.../murder-iranian-activist-pulls-co... Fox News ChannelJun 12, 2014 - The suspect in the murder of Gelareh Bagherzadeh (pictured), an Iranian Christian activist, is also alleged to have operated an empire of fraud.
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CBS NewsMay 23, 2014 - Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan, 56, has been charged with shooting Gelareh Bagherzadeh in the head as she drove to her Houston home on ...
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Houston Chronicle2 days ago - Gelareh Bagherzadeh was slain at her parents' condo complex in January 2012. Eleven months later, 28-year-old Coty Beavers was killed.
DA's office drops murder charge in Iranian student's killing ...
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UPDATED Jan. 20, 2012 – More details about the crime released — she was shot in the head and her wallet and phone were left untouched in car — but no new clues connecting this to anything except perhaps a botched robbery. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mystery-surrounds-texas-slaying-of-woman-outspoken-about-democracy-in-her-home-country-of-iran/2012/01/20/gIQA1bDvCQ_story.html
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UPDATED March 4, 2012 – Still no clues: Houston police said they are stuck and will follow any lead, even those involving Iranian conspiracies, if it will lead them to the killer.http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/05/justice/texas-iranian-student-killing/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
- Gelareh Bagherzadeh was an Iranian-born woman, newly converted to Christianity. She volunteered as a Persian-language translator at church and was about to graduate ...
- Gelareh Bagherzadeh was a gregarious Iranian-born woman studying molecular genetics. She taught children to play the piano and volunteered at her church
- Who killed newly converted Iranian activist ? Iranian Christian News Agency. Gelareh Bagherzadeh was an Iranian-born woman, newly converted to Christianity.
nvestigating whether there is a link between the killing of an Iranian activist nearly a year ago and the more recent shooting death of her boyfriend's twin brother, the Houston Chronicle reported Saturday. Police have said she was talking on her cellphone when she was killed. Nothing was taken from her car, and police say no evidence has been found linking her death to her background or political views, though they continue to explore that possibility. On Monday, Coty Beavers, 28, was found dead in his apartment. Police say he had been shot multiple times.
Jan 17, 2012 · A Texas medical student well-known in her community as an Iranian activist was mysteriously shot and killed in her car, just yards from her home.
- A Texas medical student well-known in her community as an Iranian activist was mysteriously shot and killed in her car, just yards from her home.
- Jan 18, 2012 · A Texas medical student and outspoken Iranian activist was killed in Texas while driving near her parents' house — leaving authorities baffled and her ...
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- Jan 18, 2012 · Transcript for Iranian Women's Rights Activist Killed in Houston. EF BI is joining the investigation of a murder in Houston.
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