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Word: sharafkandi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1994-1994
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...back room of Berlin's Mykonos Restaurant on Sept. 17, 1992, eight men were feasting on lamb and stuffed grape leaves. The diners, members of various Iranian opposition movements, were in town for a convention of the Socialist International. The senior member of the group was Sadegh Sharafkandi, 54, who had succeeded the murdered Qassemlou as head of the Kurdish opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tehran Connection | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...late arrival coming to join the gathering. Suddenly someone shouted in Farsi, "You sons of whores!" and two gunmen opened fire. Dastmalchi threw himself backward under a table and played dead. The shooting lasted no more than a minute, then the gunmen fled in a dark blue BMW. Sharafkandi and two associates were killed instantly, and a third man died shortly afterward in the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tehran Connection | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

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