The Plot to Assassinate Ambassador Mousavian in Germany

The Plot to Assassinate Ambassador Mousavian in Germany
Interview with Ambassador Mousavian
Interviewer: In recent weeks, there has been a media controversy raised against you in the United States. In your book on Iran and US relations, you tell the story of two members of the MEK to assassinate you in the 1980s. Over the past few years that you have been in the US, you also witnessed tremendous pressures from the MEK (Mujahedin Khalq Cult) and Zionist forces, culminating in a letter by “Alliance Against Nuclear Iran” to the President of Princeton University to expel you. It seems like they are doing their best to attach you in character-assassination. Was there a plan for physical assassination after the failed operation in 1980s or even before immigrating to the US?
Mousavian: Let me give you one example for now. In 1998, one morning while I was working in my office at the Secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council. I saw Mr. Ali Rabiee, who was then the Executive Deputy Secretary of the Secretariat, inadvertently entered my office panicking about a threat to me. I was shocked to see him that way. If you recall, it had coincided with the ‘serial killing’ issue in Iran, and Mr. Ali Rabiee—who we often referred to as “Agha Ebad,”—was also a member of the investigative committee on the serial killings issue. The Supreme Leader also said that the perpetrators of the killings are linked to foreign countries. The Judiciary Branch of the Armed Forces also issued a statement confirming the affiliation of the perpetrators of the killings with US and Israeli spies. The Ministry of Intelligence had issued a statement with similar message.
Mousavian: Mr. Rabiee told me that the perpetrators of the serial killings had confessed that that they had plans to assassinate you during your mission in Germany as the Ambassador, but they were unsuccessful. Mr. Rabiee explained, the serial killing team mentioned that they planned to assassinate you (Mousavian) in Germany during the operation a few months before the Mykonos Court verdict during the December 1996 Christmas holidays. The assassinators’ plan was for you to become a “national martyr” in Iran. Of course, the ambassador’s assassination would mean that Iran would sever its ties to Germany thus the ruling of the Mykonos court will be ineffective. However, the assassination team was not able to find me.
Mousavian: Mr. Ebad’s question was, where were you at the time of the operation? I told Mr. Rabiee that a few months before the New Year, I had planned to go on the Umrah Pilgrimage and then visit Imam Ali’s Shrine in Najaf and then Imam Hossein’s Shrine in Karbala during the Winter holidays (before January 1997). Since the MEK members were so active in Iraq, I did not tell anyone anything about my plan. I got a visa for a friend named Mr. Shahmoradi and my wife and we went to Umrah Pilgrimage. After the Umrah pilgrimage, I sent my wife to Iran because the trip to Iraq was so dangerous. Mr. Shahmoradi and I went to Amman in Jordan in order to drive to Karbala. After arriving in Amman, we were guests of the embassy friends for lunch. I rented a car with a driver. But after lunch, a member of the embassy informed me your trip to Karbala has been leaked. They said, “if you go, you are likely to be captured, tortured and executed, by MEK members.” he said, “I have to return to Germany immediately and not even go to Tehran.” I asked for some time to think.
Mousavian: Mr. Shahmoradi and I went to a room to rest and consult. I told Mr. Shahmoradi to do an Istikhara—which is a prayer of seeking counsel and guidance from God Almighty through Quartic verse. He called an esteemed religious scholar in the holy city Qom. The recommendation of the Istikharah was that “you should not give up your determination to travel, and that canceling the trip would be an irrepealable mistake.” So, without telling the embassy friends, we got in the car and went to Baghdad. At 4 in the morning, I arrived at the door of the Iranian embassy in Baghdad. To my surprise, I saw Mr. Niknam, the then Chargé d’Affaires in Iraq, anxiously walking down the street in front of the embassy. He ran to me to give a hug and then burst into tears. He said that in the evening, the friends at the Embassy in Amman told me that you came down to the borders and we thought you would be captured by the MEK members. I immediately went to the State Department and met with Abdul Jabbar al-Duri, the Deputy Minister on Consular Affairs. He reassured me that you would be safe. He said that he was also Iraq’s Ambassador in Germany and that he had a good relationship with Mr. Mousavian. He said Mr. Mousavian is our guest. Mr. Niknam said he was so worried about me getting to the embassy safe. Anyway, we went to the shrines of the Imams in Karbala, Najaf, Kazemin and Samarra with Mr. Shahmoradi for a week.
Mousavian: Mr. Rabiee was crying when he heard this story and said that in fact, your ‘grandfathers’—meaning the Imams (because I am seyed and from their decedents) saved you from this assassination. Because if you were in Germany, you should be in your grave now.
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