The latest documents were discovered on the cooperation of the Austrian state in assassination of Abdul Rahman Qasemlou

The latest documents were discovered on the cooperation of the Austrian state in assassination of Abdul Rahman Qasemlou.

US-AIDE MEMOIRE

passed on to the Ministry of Justice by the head of department 11.4  in the Ministry of Foreign affairs on 22 August 1989

The United States Government wishes to express its deep concern with the unresolved murder on July 13 of Abdul-Rahman Guassemlou,  internationally respected leader of the Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party, and two of his colleagues, Abdullah Ghaderi-Azar and Fadel Mala Mahmoud Rasoul. 

Credible evidence exists that the Iranian Government and the local Iranian Embassy were involved  in this heinous act of terrorism. Among other things, the suspects reportedly held Iranian diplomatic passports. Two of the suspects sought the refuge and protection of the local Iranian Embassy.

We urge the Government of Austria to pursue prompt, official and concrete action to identify, arrest and prosecute those responsible for the attack. We believe such action should include steps: 

(A) To indict those suspected of responsibility; 

(B) To arrest and prosecute any non-official, non-accredited suspects remaining inside Austria;

(C) To initiate Interpol red notices for all suspects and to use all available avenues o international cooperation to obtain any necessary evidence located abroad; 

(D) If suspects are located abroad, to initiate and effect extradition;

(E) To declare persona non grata any foreign official accredited to the Government of Austria trough his local embassy woh may be shown to have played a role in the assassination or its aftermath, to refuse a replacement, and to announce the intention to prosecute any PNG' d official if he or she were to return to Austria in the future.

We share your outrage at the repeated misuse of diplomatic status for the purpose of carrying out state-sponsored terrorist attacks on Austrian soil. In May 1987 the Libyan People's Bureau was implicated in an assassination attempt against a former Libyan ambassador turned dissident, Ezzedin al Ghadamsi.

The U.S.  fully supports all firm and decisive action by the Government of Austria in order to make clear that it will not condone the use of its territory as a venue to organize and carry out state-sponsored terrorist attacks, including political assassinations.

All civilized states must stand together in our refusal to capitulate to state-sponsored terrorism. To do otherwise would place the whole world at greater risk to increased attacks by state sponsors of terrorism

(copied from the Austrian Foreign Ministry’s documentation on the Ghassemlou murder; October 1997; Sissy)