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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Özeti
l'attentat
sans avoir été inquiétés par les autorités autrichiennes.
Cette affaire a rebondi après lé récent verdict prononcé par un tribunal
de Berlin mettant en cause les dirigeants iraniens pour un attentat
contre des opposants kurdes en Allemagne en 1992 mais aussi pour le
triple meurtre de Kurdes perpétrés en 1989 à Vienne.
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A.F.P.- Agence France Presse-A.F.P.- Agence France Presse-A.F.P.- Agence France Presse
INTERNATIONAL,HERALD TRmUNE; SATURDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 19 20,1997
l , '
~Iran Radicals
,Warn Gerrrumy
'OfRetaliation
By William Drozdiak
Washington Post Service
BERLIN - The leader of an extremist
Shiite Muslim fundamentalist'
group in Iran threatened Germany on
Friday with suicide bombings if it did
not apologize for a court ruling that
blamed Iran' s leadership for ordering';
the assassination of Kurdish dissidents ~
here in 1992., ' ,
It was the fIrSt explicit warning Of
violent retribution in the wake of last
week's verdict by a, Berlin court, which;
convicted an Iranian and three Lebanese'
of murdering the Kurds at aJocal resitaurant.
The coUftsaid the killers were,
acting on instructions from Iran's
!highest authorities.
! European' Union nations withdrew
their envoys from Iran after the ruling.
, GermllllY bas steppedup anti-terror
vigilance .at internati0!l~ ~rts and
llJ'owtdgovernment buildings mthe l~
few days, officials said. Italy also has
moved td a. N.g~ alert after its intel-
I~œ .. en'~ wlUnedOf.po,';.'" al' lievOil to bel1ßked tôlliè I".;an-bac'41
tacks by Islarmc extreffilsts.
Hezbollah group in Lebanon that carried
. "We will èonftont insqIts to Islam out kidnappings of Westerners there. It
and our religiQus leadership wherever in is mainly a pressure group representing
the worldthèy occur;." Hossein Allah poor people who seek to prevent Iran's
Karam head of the'Ansar'e Hezbollah ruling Shiite clergy from straying from
group, told a crowd outsid~ the German the hard-line values of the 1979 Islamic
Embassy in Tehran. "We are even revolution that toppled the shah.
ready to strap a bomb around our waistst Until now, the Iranian government
and go for martyrdom. Woe to you if you has expressed outrage but reacted with
,do not apologize for your actions." 'cautionagainst the German court ruling.
Ashe spoke, dozens of people signed Germany is Iran's leading trading partup
on the spo'-,,-to become suicide ner and has long acted as a special inbombers,
according' to an Associated termediary during timesof tension with
Press report. from Téltl'ân. Mr. Allah other Western countries. After with-
Kl11'amdeclared that hundreds of othersdrawing their ambassadorsin tit-for-tat
had already volunteered for suicide at" protests, both Iran and Germany detacks
against Oen:nany.
clared they did not wish to see the dis-
~ "Rightnow',qur,government won't pute escalate to open hostility. .
~ow such' actions, but we are negotiating
with it," he said.
But with Iran heading into the fmal
stage of campaigriing for its presidential
"Once our deadline passes, then Uer': election next month, the anti-Western
many will be confronted with the ex_fervor in the wake of the German verdict'
plosion of the Hezbollah," he added, has been exploited by radical groups that
without specifying when the deadline want to purge moderate voices from
would expire.
government.
Hundreds of policemen in riot gear After keeping a low profile immewere
arrayed in four human walls to diately after the verdict, leading Iranian
shield the embassy, as protesters shouted politicians reacted angrily when the
"Revenge, Revenge!" Disabled war lower house of Germany's Parliament,
veterans also joined the demonstration approved a resolution this week conafter
the government said it would press. demning .Iran for ordering the assas-.
charges .~gainst 24Gi:rm~ firms ac,:sinations. Tensions could rise further if
cused of supplying Iraq with chemical: German prosecutors decide to prolong
'weapons used onIranian soldiers during, ,their investigations into the role played
the 1980-88 war.
'by Iranian leaders in the work of Iranian
Mr..AJlahKaram's group is not be~ hit squads in Europe.
~ . . . .
Associated Press - A.P. - Associated Press - A.P. - Associated Press - A.P. -
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP-20/04/97) -- German Foreign Minister Klaus
Kinkel tried Sunday to ease tensions with Iran and said it was necessary to continue
a dialogue with Tehran.
Calling Iran "an important country," Kinkel said was better to remain in contad
than to lose influence by breaking off diplomatic relations.
In an interview with Hessen radio, Kinkel questioned how much the United
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