Safdar Rahmat Abadi (also Rahmatabadi) (died 10 November 2013) was an Iranian politician who served as
deputy minister of industry in the governments of
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( fa, محمود احمدینژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād ), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian ( fa, محمود صباغیان, Mahmoud Sabbāghyān, 28 October 1956), and
Hassan Rouhani
Hassan Rouhani ( fa, حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation: ; born Hassan Fereydoun ( fa, حسن فریدون, links=no); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. ...
. His remit also included mining and trade.
He was shot dead either in his car or as he entered his car at around 7:50 pm (15:50 GMT) on 10 November 2013 in the capital
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the Capital city, capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is th ...
.
[BBC News: Iranian deputy industry minister shot dead]
BBC News (10 November 2013)Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazee ...
Iranian minister shot dead in Tehran
(11 November 2013)
''The New York Times'' (10 November 2013) His attacker has not been identified. No organisation has yet claimed responsibility, and the motivation for the killing is unknown.
According to the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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, some Iranian bloggers have been critical of the official position that the killing was not a political assassination.
The assassination is the first of a senior political figure at the national level in Iran in several years.
It follows the murder by shooting of Mousa Nouri, public prosecutor for the city of
Zabol
Zabol ( fa, , also transliterated as Zâbol or Zābul) is a city and capital of Zabol County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. Zabol is near the border with Afghanistan. Referred to as Sistan until the late 1920s, the city was renamed Zab ...
, in the border province of
Sistan and Baluchestan on 6 November, for which the
Sunni Islamist group
Jaish ul-Adl
Jaish ul-Adl, or Jaish al-Adl ( ar, جيش العدل, lit=Army of Justice; bal, جئیش الئدل), is a Salafi Islamist militant organization that operates mainly in southeastern Iran, where there is a substantial concentration of Sunni B ...
claimed responsibility.
[Al Jazeera]
Armed group claims Iran prosecutor's killing
(7 November 2013)
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Iranian politicians
Assassinated Iranian politicians
2013 deaths
Year of birth missing
Deaths by firearm in Iran
Asian politicians assassinated in the 2010s
Politicians assassinated in 2013