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1 killed, 1 suspect fled to Iran July 22, 1980 Dawud Salahuddin David Belfield Assassination of Iran Critic In 1980, Dawud Salahuddin, an American convert to Islam born as David Theodore Belfield , was recruited by the then newly formed Islamic Republic of Iran to assassinate Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former press attaché at the Iranian Embassy in Washington who became a vocal critic of Ayatollah Khomeini and founded the Iran Freedom Foundation, an organization opposed the Islamic revolutionary regime. Dressed as a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier, Salahuddin carried a parcel concealing a handgun to Mr. Tabatabi’s front door on July 22, 1980. Salahuddin shot Mr. Tabatabi three times when he answered the door to his Bethesda home.
In 1979, Salahuddin accepted a post as a security guard offered by Ali Agha, the embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires. Salahuddin was moved to a head security post at the Iranian Interest Section at the Algerian Embassy after the U.S. and Iran severed diplomatic relations in April 1980. While at this post, according to Salahuddin, he was contracted and paid $5000 to “kill for the Iranian Government.” Following the killing, Salahuddin fled to Canada and purchased a ticket to Paris. Eventually, he arrived at the Iranian Embassy in Geneva and received a visa to Iran where he was accorded a private meeting with Ayatollah Khomeini. U.S. authorities have charged him with murder; he remains a fugitive to this day, and remains the last known successful Iranian assassination plot on US soil.
In 1979, Salahuddin accepted a post as a security guard offered by Ali Agha, the embassy’s Chargé d’Affaires. Salahuddin was moved to a head security post at the Iranian Interest Section at the Algerian Embassy after the U.S. and Iran severed diplomatic relations in April 1980. While at this post, according to Salahuddin, he was contracted and paid $5000 to “kill for the Iranian Government.” Following the killing, Salahuddin fled to Canada and purchased a ticket to Paris. Eventually, he arrived at the Iranian Embassy in Geneva and received a visa to Iran where he was accorded a private meeting with Ayatollah Khomeini. U.S. authorities have charged him with murder; he remains a fugitive to this day, and remains the last known successful Iranian assassination plot on US soil.
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