• Three Iranian diplomats as well as a reporter for Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) were abducted in Lebanon on 4 July 1982. None of them have been seen...
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  • was greeted by his family and some Iranian officials. 1982 kidnapping of Iranian diplomats "Kidnapped Iranian diplomat rescued in Yemen". Al Jazeera. 5...
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  • Ahmad Motevaselian (category 1982 kidnapping of Iranian diplomats)
    (In English) Iranian diplomats still alive in Israeli jail (In YouTube) (In English) Iran marks 29th anniversary of 4 diplomats kidnapped in Lebanon –...
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  • Seyed Mohsen Mousavi (category 1982 kidnapping of Iranian diplomats)
    Moghadam "Iran accuses Israel of kidnapping four diplomats in 1982". Middle East Monitor. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2019. "Iranians kidnapped in Lebanon...
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  • said in a statement. 1982 kidnapping of Iranian diplomats Deportation of Iranian students at US airports Iran hostage crisis Iranian involvement in the...
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  • Hezbollah–Israel conflict (category Iran–Israel proxy conflict)
    Lebanon's internal affairs. With funding from the Iranian government and training and supervision from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah...
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  • lives of Iranian diplomats and prevent attackers from entering the embassy." Iranian Embassy siege 1982 kidnapping of Iranian diplomats 1998 killing of Iranian...
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  • Ardebili Iranian diplomats kidnapping – Three Iranian diplomats and one Iranian photographer disappeared in Lebanon during the invasion of Lebanon. Years...
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    (Lebanon) 1982 kidnapping of Iranian diplomats Harris, Faces of Lebanon: Sects, Wars, and Global Extensions (1997), p. 162, cites "the massacre of 1,500 Palestinians...
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    The Iranian hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States. Fifty-three American diplomats and citizens were held hostage...
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    Jamshid Sharmahd (category German people of Iranian descent)
    been targeted by the Iranian government for his connections to Tondar, an Iranian opposition movement. Since his kidnapping by Iranian agents in 2020, Sharmahd...
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  • Lebanon hostage crisis (category Kidnappings by Islamists)
    The Lebanon hostage crisis was the kidnapping in Lebanon of 104 foreign hostages between 1982 and 1992, when the Lebanese Civil War was at its height....
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    "Iranian Diplomats Set to Leave Albania After Expulsion Order". VOA. 8 September 2022. "Albania, host of Iranian dissident camp, expels two Iranian diplomats"...
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  • the Iranian regime. To get members of his family out of Iran, for example, bin Laden had an Iranian diplomat kidnapped and then traded. The Iranians released...
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  • apartment, was later convicted of the kidnapping. Karl von Spreti: West-Germany's ambassador to Guatemala, was kidnapped in 1970 in Guatemala City and...
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    intelligence found that the highest levels of the Iranian government had authorized the attack. Seven Iranian diplomats were expelled from Argentina after the...
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    about Iran’s nuclear energy program. Prior to the Iranian Revolution of 1978–79, SAVAK (Organization of National Security and Information), the Iranian secret...
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  • attack on American diplomats. The film's title references the motto of the SAS. Euan Lloyd, the film's producer, witnessed the Iranian Embassy siege firsthand...
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    while they are seen as a security risk in Iraq." Iran said that the detainees were "kidnapped diplomats" and that they were "held as hostages." On 9 July...
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  • William Francis Buckley (category Kidnapping in the 1980s)
    from 1984 until his kidnapping and execution in 1985. Buckley's cover was as a political officer at the U.S. Embassy. He was kidnapped by the group Islamic...
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  • Kazem Akhavan, Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982 Mehdi Akhavan-Sales (1928–1990), Iranian poet Navíd Akhavan (born 1980), Iranian-German actor...
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    supported Iranian rebels, such as the People's Mujahedin of Iran, conducted airstrikes against Iranian allies in Syria and assassinated Iranian nuclear...
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  • organised the kidnapping of four diplomats from the Soviet Embassy in Beirut, one of whom he personally killed. The result of the kidnapping was Soviet pressure...
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    success in United States-Iran nuclear negotiations depends on Iranian perception of American respect. A former Iranian diplomat, Nosratollah Tajik, was...
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  • Homme, and the kidnapping late that year of the director of the French Cultural Center in Beirut, Gilles Peyroles. Although the capture of Georges Abdallah...
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  • pro-Iranian in ideology, but some doubts existed among both Muslim moderates and Western diplomats about whether it was actually directed by Iran rather...
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    Mohammad Mosaddegh (category Iranian critics of religions)
    Majlis. He was a member of the Iranian parliament from 1923, and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis, until his government...
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    reestablishment of the US–Iranian alliance after the soon to be expected death of Khomeini, to end the Iran–Iraq War and end Iranian support for Islamic...
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    exterior of the plane after flying through the otherwise undetected volcanic ash plume from Indonesia's Mount Galunggung. July 4 – Four Iranian diplomats are...
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  • Shlomo Argov (category Assassinated Israeli diplomats)
    2003) was an Israeli diplomat. He was the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom whose attempted assassination led to the 1982 Lebanon War. Argov was...
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