On September 17, 1992 agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) murdered three leading members of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) and one of their supporters in a private dining room at the Mykonos Restaurant in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin, Germany. The attack was one of a series of assassinations sponsored by the Iranian government after the revolution of 1979 designed to intimidate and disrupt the activities of political opponents of the regime.

The Mykonos operation was authorized by the Islamic Republic’s powerful Special Affairs Committee, which at the time of the murders was headed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and included President Hojjatoleslam Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Minister of ntelligence Hojjatoleslam Ali Fallahian and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati. The Committee charged Hojjatoleslam Fallahian with superintending the operation.
• The Mykonos operation was carried out by personnel from the Special Operations Council of he IRI Ministry of Intelligence and by freelance operators recruited by agents of the IRI Ministry of intelligence in the field.

Iran Human Rights Documentaion Centre