The Exposure of Noureddin
Kianouri
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| Noureddin Kianouri |
In
1983, Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme spiritual leader of Iran,
suddenly dissolved the Tudeh party. Iran Radio announced that the
Secretary General of this party was found to be a Russian agent.
Hundreds of political workers were arrested and sent to prison. Scores
of them were hanged in public. This is the story of the most scandalous
espionage episode in Iran, in which Iranian fundamentalists, Great
Britain and Russians played their own games.
Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran, made a sensational announcement on the radio in May, 1983. He said, ”We have dissolved the Tudeh party. It has been found to be full of foreign agents. Its Secretary General, Noureddin Kianouri, has confessed that he was a Russian agent since 1945. All these traitors to the country have been ordered to be arrested. We shall hang all those against whom evidence is found that they were foreign spies. In the meantime, eighteen Soviet diplomats have been asked to leave within two days for spying and contacts with traitors.”
