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Kazem Darabi 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 one who organized the Mykonos restaurant assassinations. On December 10, 2007, Darabi was released early after 15 years in prison and then deported to Iran. Kazem Darabi was greeted by senior Foreign Ministry officials upon his return to Iran;
After German authorities released Kazem Darabi, the alleged Iranian intelligence agent behind a deadly 1992 attack in Berlin went into business in Lebanon, including with a top Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officer;
In December 2007, Darabi flew into Tehran for a triumphant return where he was greeted by Iranian Foreign Ministry officials after serving 15-years in German prison. Darabi was sentenced to life in prison in 1997 for helping orchestrate the assassination of Iranian Kurdish dissidents in the Mykonos Cafe in Berlin;
Prosecutors believed Darabi helped orchestrate the murders on behalf of Iranian intelligence, with a Germany court issuing an arrest warrant for then-Iranian Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahian over suspicions he was involved in the planning of the Mykonos attack;
Lebanese corporate records show that Darabi is the owner of Bitar Establishment for General Trading and Contracting (BETC), located in the Bekaa Valley village of Terbol not far from the Syrian border;
Darabi also went into business with Hassan Shateri, an IRGC Qods Force officer who led Iran’s reconstruction efforts in southern Lebanon following the 2006 July War between Israel and Hezbollah;
Lebanese corporate records reveal that Darabi and Shateri were co-founders and shareholders of the south Lebanon-based National Crushers Company, which was involved in the efforts of Shateri’s Iranian Committee for the Reconstruction of Lebanon to rebuild roadways in the region;
In September 2019, Darabi spoke at a Beirut conference held by the New Horizon Organization, which was sanctioned by the US in February for allegedly supporting the IRGC Qods Force;
“New Horizon hosts international conferences that have provided Iranian intelligence officers a platform to recruit and collect intelligence information from attendees,” the US Department of the Treasury said in its press release;
Also Known As:
Kazem Darabi (Persian: کاظم دارابی)
Born:
1964
Country:
Iran
POB:
Kazerun, Iran
Reason for the color:
» What has an Iranian Intelligence agent been doing in Lebanon;