Hamid Reza Chitgar [SEP] place of birth
Hamid Reza Chitgar
Hamid Reza Chitgar (7 July 1949 - 19 May 1987, also known as "Hamid Bahmani") was an exiled Iranian politician who lived in France after the Iranian Revolution and was assassinated in Austria by the Iranian government.
Early life and education.
Hamid Reza Chitgar was born in the town of Babol in the Mazandaran province of Iran in 1949. After finishing his engineering studies in Tehran, he pursued his master’s in Strasbourg, France in the mid 1970s.
Arrest and defection.
It aligned with the People's Socialist Republic of Albania following the Sino-Albanian split.
History The Iranian Government's state terrorism against exiled politicians.
Since its creation, the Islamic Republic of Iran has ordered attacks and assassinations on Iranian politicians in exile, condemning them as heretics or traitors (Bani Sadr, Shapour Bakhtiar). These attacks led to a number of unsettled murders and assassinations that took place mainly in countries of the European Union in the 1980s and early 1990s. Hamid Reza Chitgar (known as Hamid Bahmani)