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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about quot;Carefully, Iran, West with the genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Assassins of the Turquoise Palace'
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conversations.value: the first five paragraphs for this book
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conversations.value: Assassins of the Turquoise Palace
  Before Judge Alban had completed his conversation with Hamid, Judge Kubsch came on the line and asked, "How did you ever get a copy of the judgment? It's not for the public, you know, only for our own internal use."
  Hamid rushed to say, "But judge, you must not even mention money! This is a token of our gratitude, a small gift from us to you."
  Judge Alban laughed and said, "You hopeless oriental! I'm a judge. If I don't pay you, I'd be in hot water!"
  The defendants appealed the judgment and the case was referred to the Federal High Court. Hoping to influence the appeals process, Tehran arrested a German businessman on charges of rape and issued a death sentence for him. Bonn did not balk. In 1998, after a year's consideration, the federal court upheld Kubsch's judgment. True to his reputation, he proved "unappealable" once more.
  Bonn, too, arrested an Iranian on charges of espionage. The arrest became the occasion for a happy reunion. Bruno Jost was assigned to the case, and Judge Kubsch presided over the trial, and Hamid and company went on to permanently keep their night shifts in order to attend the trial in daytime. The room, too, was the same Hall 700. Throughout this trial, Judge Kubsch appeared wan and exhausted, yet he carried on. In late December 1999, Hamid ran into him on his way to the men's room and wished the judge a "happy and healthy new year." Kubsch smiled in return and said that "happy" could prove true but he doubted "healthy" was ahead for him. He died the following October. His death came weeks before the retirement he had long promised his wife would be spent vacationing and taking the trips he had postponed for decades.
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conversations.value: five more paragraphs. Start with the sentence 'Abdulrahman Ghassemlou—Popular leader of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, assassinated in Vienna in 1989
  In 2005, when I first began to look into the story of the Mykonos assassinations, I quickly learned that sifting through the urban legend and the truth would be a monumental task'.
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conversations.value: Abdulrahman Ghassemlou—Popular leader of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, assassinated in Vienna in 1989
  In 2005, when I first began to look into the story of the Mykonos assassinations, I quickly learned that sifting through the urban legend and the truth would be a monumental task. Therefore, establishing a timeline of events and the arc of the narrative alone became my first goal. To that end, I conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with the following individuals, among others:
  Jalil Azadikhah, Shohreh Badi'i-Dehkordi, Bob Baer, Abolhassan Banisadr, Mehran Barati, Minu Barati, Nasrin Bassiri, Roya Boroumand, Fred Burton, Chief-in-charge of Hall 700 at Berlin's Moabit Court, Parviz Dastmalchi, Salomeh Dastmalshi, Sara Dehkordi, Wilhelm Dietl, Rudolf Dolzer, Mehdi Ebrahimzadeh, Hans Joachim Ehrig, Ali Ferdowsi, Owen Fiss, Dieter Grimm, Ashraf Golpaygani, Alexander Jost, Angela Jost, Barbara Jost, Bruno Jost, Hadi Khorsandi, Werner Kolhoff, Martin Kubsch, John Langbein, Abolghassem Messbahi, Hamid Nowzari, Owner of Ms. Saigon (formerly known as the Mykonos Restaurant), Mehran Payandeh, Ahmad Rafat, Habib Rahiab, Ewald Riethmüller, Kambiz Rousta, Hamid Sadr, Sahraoui, Ali Sajjadi, Bahman Sarayi- Moghadam, Mohsen Sazegara, Norbert Siegmund, Rudolf Steinberg, David Unger, Sandra Volck, Alexander von Stahl, R. James Woolsey, Abolghassem Zamankhan.
  Wilhelm Dietl and Josef Hufelschulte in Die Focus; Sigrid Avaresh and Werner Kolhoff in Berliner Zeitung; Rudiger Scheidges in Der Taagespiegel; Norbert Siegmund and Susanne Opalka in SFB and ZDF for local and national television broadcasts; and Dorothea Jung in Deutschland Radio. The publications Suddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel, Der Bild, and Die Welt also helped fill in certain gaps in my knowledge of the story.
  It came to me as a great surprise to find that because of the distinct nature of the German legal system, no trial transcripts existed for this case. However, as journalists and members of the victims' families were allowed to take notes during the proceedings, I was able to glean aspects of the experience through the private journals of Shohreh Dehkordi. The daily filings of Hamid Nowzari and his collagborators and a few other Iranian journalists in the following Persian publications were similarly illuminating:
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conversations.value: Shahrooz, Kaveh. "With Revolutionary Rage and Rancor: A Preliminary Report on the 1988 Massacre of Iran's Political Prisioners." Harvard Human Rights Journal 20 (2007).
  Tyler, Patrick E. "Iranian Seen as Victim of Assassination Plan." The Washington Post. 9 September 1989.
  U.N. Commission on Human Rights. Report of the Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, Transparency and the Imposition of the Death Penalty. New York. March 2006.
  Wolst, Federal High Court Judge. Haftbefehl, Der Minister für Nachrichtendienste und Sicherheitsangelegenheiten der Islamischen Republik Iran Ali Falahijan [Arrest Warrant, for Ali Falahian, the Minister of Intelligence and Security of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Falahian]. 14 March 1996. Die Agenten schlafen nur. Der Spiegel. 25 March 1996.