Column
Looks At Notorious Terrorist Who Benefits In Iran Nuclear Deal
by IPT News • Aug 10, 2015 at
3:54 pm
|
|
|
|
|
Share:  
|
  Be the
first of your friends to like this.
Part of the Iran nuclear agreement enables the removal of individual
terrorists from Western sanctions, including notorious Lebanese assassin
Anis Naccache.
In a
column published in Monday's Wall Street Journal, Hooman
Bakhtiar revisits Naccache's role leading a 1975 terrorist mission taking
11 OPEC oil ministers hostage in Vienna. The assault was ordered by the
notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal.
As a close friend of slain Hizballah leader Imad Mugniyeh, Naccache also
facilitated Iran's terrorist operations in the Mediterranean.
Bakhtiar recalls how Naccache attempted to kill his great uncle, and
Iran's last prime minister under the Shah's rule, Shapour Bakhtiar.
As a liberal reformer, Bakhtiar requested that Ayatollah Khomeini
refrain from establishing a theocracy after the Shah was overthrown. That
call signed Bakhtiar's death sentence.
Five Lebanese, Iranian, and Palestinian assassins under Naccache's
leadership posed as journalists dispatched to interview Shapour Bakhtiar,
intending to kill him.
But the plot failed after the assassins killed a police officer and
mistakenly executed an elderly French woman in a neighboring apartment.
Naccache and three assassins were caught after an ensuing gunfight with
French police. They were convicted of murder and received life sentences in
1982.
Iran subsequently unleashed a terrorist campaign to secure Naccache's
release, including a string of deadly bombings in Paris during the 1980s,
while ordering Hizballah to kidnap 16 French citizens in Lebanon. The
Islamic Republic's strategy worked and France released Naccache to Tehran
in 1990.
In 1991, another group of assassins eventually killed the former Iranian prime minister in Paris.
In 2008, the European Union sanctioned Naccache and his business,
Bazargani Tejarat Tavanmand Saccal, due to his involvement in Iran's
nuclear proliferation operations, not his terrorist past.
Now, Naccache and several other Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
leaders will be removed from the EU sanctions list. Many of these
individuals were responsible for killing Iranian dissidents, American
personnel in Iraq, and civilians in other countries.
In a 2008 interview with Iran's Fars News Agency, Naccache showed no
remorse over the Bakhtiar assassination plot.
"There has been no change in my line of thinking. I stand by
everything I have done in the past. If I had the experience I have now, I
would have changed the planning of the plot to kill Bakhtiar. We were
pressed for time, and we rushed to kill him, causing missteps along the
way," said Naccache.
Critics of the Iran nuclear deal assert that the agreement does nothing
to alleviate concerns surrounding Iran's regional hegemonic ambitions and
global terrorist activities. Relieving known Iranian-led terrorist leaders
from stringent financial and diplomatic pressure only reinforces those
concerns.
|
Print
Send
Comment
RSS
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment