Homayoun Ardalan (

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: ھۆمایون ئەردەڵان, ''Homayoun Ardalan''; 2 February 1950 – 17 September 1992) was the official representative of the

Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI; , HDKA; ), also known as the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), is an armed leftist separatist movement of Kurds, exiled in northern Iraq with branch offices in Europe. It is banned in Ira ...

in Germany and a member of the Central Committee of this party. Ardalan was killed along with Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli and Nouri Dehkordi during the 1992

Mykonos restaurant assassinations In the Mykonos restaurant assassinations (, ; also the "Mykonos Incident"), Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and their translator Nouri Dehkordi, were assassinated at the Mykonos Greek res ...

, in

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Early life and career

Homayoun Ardalan was born on 2 February 1950, in

Saqqez Saqqez (; ; ) is a city in the Central District (Saqqez County), Central District of Saqqez County, Kurdistan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Etymology The name Saqqez derives from the Scythian la ...

, Kurdistan Province,

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. He was from the Ardalan family of Saqqez in

Rojhalat Iranian Kurdistan or Eastern Kurdistan () is an unofficial name for the parts of northwestern Iran with either a majority or sizable population of Kurds. Geographically, it includes the West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan province, Kermanshah pr ...

and the son of Saifullah Khan Ardalan. With the beginning of the Revolution of 1978, he dropped out of Kurdistan University in Sanandaj and became a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran. In 1983, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Party, after which he was transferred to the Saqqez Party Committee. After the Eighth Party Congress in 1987, he left for Germany to represent the Democratic Party in that country. He lived in Frankfurt.

Death

Ardalan was murdered in the

on 17 September 1992. On the evening of September 17, at 10:47 p.m., two masked men burst into the back room of Mykonos restaurant and began shooting at the four Kurdish exiles around the table. Three of them died where they fell: Dr Sadegh Sharafkandi, the Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), Fattah Abdoli and Homayoun Ardalan both PDKI Central Committee members. The fourth person was Nouri Dehkordi, a Kurdish political activist who was serving as a translator. Dehkordi was struck by seven bullets and later died in hospital. In the Mykonos trial, the courts found

Kazem Darabi Kazem Darabi () (born 1964) is an Iranian intelligence service employee who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Berlin Supreme Court for murdering four Kurdish dissidents in Berlin in 1992. According to the court proceedings, Darabi was the o ...

, an

ian national who worked as a grocer in Berlin, and Lebanese Abbas Rhayel, guilty of murder and sentenced them to life in prison. Two other Lebanese, Youssef Amin and Mohamed Atris, were convicted of being accessories to murder. In its 10 April 1997 ruling, the court issued an international arrest warrant for Iranian intelligence minister Hojjat al-Islam

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after declaring that the assassination had been ordered by him with knowledge of Iranian supreme leader

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and president

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References

External links

Iran’s Killing Machine: Political Assassinations by the Islamic Regime

Mousavian, an Iranian terrorist in Princeton

Open Letter: Arash Sadeghi Sounds Alarm of Renewed Assassination Campaign
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