{"id":1685,"date":"2025-03-09T04:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2025-08-08T22:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:58:53","slug":"revealing-mohsen-rafighdoosts-role-in-cross-border-assassinations-of-islamic-republic-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/blog\/iran\/1685\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealing Mohsen Rafighdoost\u2019s Role in Cross-Border Assassinations of Islamic Republic Opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mohsen Rafighdoost, the former Minister of the IRGC and former head of the so-called Foundation for the Oppressed, spoke about the assassinations of Shapour Bakhtiar, the last Prime Minister of the Pahlavi era; Gholam Ali Oveissi, an Army General of the Imperial Iranian Army; Shahriar Shafiq, the son of Ashraf Pahlavi and a senior officer in the Imperial Navy; and Fereydoun Farrokhzad, an artist opposing the clerical regime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated: &#8220;The Basque separatist group in Spain carried out these assassinations for us. We paid them, and they carried out assassinations for us.&#8221;<br \/>Regarding how the Iran-Iraq War ended, he said:<br \/>&#8220;Hashemi told me that I was the obstacle to ending the war, and when I was removed from the war headquarters, the war ended. They had asked Mohsen Rezaei when the war would end, and he had said, &#8216;Until the capture of Baghdad and the fall of Saddam.&#8217; Then he provided a list, which was taken to Khomeini, and they told him, &#8216;We cannot obtain what is on this list.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohsen Rafighdoost, the former Minister of the IRGC and former head of the so-called Foundation for the Oppressed, spoke about the assassinations of Shapour Bakhtiar, the last Prime Minister of the Pahlavi era; Gholam Ali Oveissi, an Army General of the Imperial Iranian Army; Shahriar Shafiq, the son of Ashraf Pahlavi and a senior officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iraniancongress.news\/-\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}