Kamran Hedayati ( fa, کامران هدایتی ''kâmrân hedâyati''; 1 April 1949 in

Iranian Kurdistan Iranian Kurdistan or Eastern Kurdistan ( ku, ڕۆژھەڵاتی کوردستان, translit=Rojhilatê Kurdistanê) is an unofficial name for the parts of northwestern Iran with either a majority or sizable population of Kurds. Geographically, it ...

– 6 July 1996 in Stockholm, Sweden) was an Iranian Kurdish

dissident A dissident is a person who actively challenges an established political or religious system, doctrine, belief, policy, or institution. In a religious context, the word has been used since the 18th century, and in the political sense since the 20th ...

who was assassinated in Sweden in the 1990s. In January 1994, Hedayati was seriously wounded after opening a

letter bomb A letter bomb, also called parcel bomb, mail bomb, package bomb, note bomb, message bomb, gift bomb, present bomb, delivery bomb, surprise bomb, postal bomb, or post bomb, is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed with t ...

in his apartment in Bagarmossen, Stockholm, Sweden. He lost his hands and sight in the attack and died from his wounds two years later. The murder remains officially unsolved. However, the

Iranian government The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran ( fa, نظام جمهوری اسلامی ایران, Neẓām-e jomhūrī-e eslāmi-e Irān, known simply as ''Neẓām'' ( fa, نظام, lit=the system) among its supporters) is the ruling state a ...

is widely believed to have ordered the assassination, as it had many similarities with other assassinations and assassination attempts on eastern Kurdish dissidents around the world at this time. In 1990, a Kurdish woman named

Effat Ghazi Efat Ghazi ( fa, عفت قاضی; 2 November 1935 – 6 September 1990) was a Kurdish refugee from Iran who was killed by a letter bomb in Västerås, Sweden, in 1990. Efat Ghazi was born in a Kurdish family in Iranian Kurdistan. Her father, Qazi ...

was killed in a similar attack through letter bombing in her apartment in Västerås.

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1949 births 1996 deaths Assassinated Iranian Kurdish dissidents Terrorism deaths in Sweden Deaths by letter bomb People murdered in Sweden Iranian people murdered abroad Iranian terrorism victims {{Kurd-bio-stub

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