Top Iranian Ordered Killings, Witness Says

Former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr told a heavily guarded German court that Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the 1992 killings of opposition Kurdish leaders. Nearly four years after the three Iranian Kurdish leaders and their translator were shot in a Berlin restaurant, Bani-Sadr told the court that he had information from three independent sources linking Tehran to the murder. Closely protected by bodyguards, Bani-Sadr said that a secret “council for special operations” supervised by Khamenei had drawn up the plans to kill the exiles. Tehran has denied the allegation.