The following is a list of notable people assassinated by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
Assassinations
Heads of government branches
- Mohammad Beheshti (28 June 1981)[1] – Chief Justice of Iran
- Mohammad-Ali Rajai (30 August 1981)[2] – President of Iran
- Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (30 August 1981)[2] – Prime Minister of Iran
Government ministers
- Mousa Kalantari (28 June 1981)[1] – Minister of Housing
- Mahmoud Ghandi (28 June 1981)[1] – Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone
- Hassan Abbaspour (28 June 1981)[1] – Minister of Energy
- Mohammad-Ali Fayyazbakhsh (28 June 1981)[1] – Minister without portfolio
Members of Parliament
- Mohammad Montazeri (28 June 1981)[2] – Najafabad
- Gholam-Hussein Haghani (28 June 1981)[2] – Bandar Abbas
- Fakhreddin Rahimi (28 June 1981)[2] – Malavi
- Abbas-Ali Nateq-Nouri (28 June 1981)[2] – Nour
- Reza Kamyab (28 July 1981)[2] – Mashhad
- Hassan Ayat (5 August 1981)[3] – Tehran
- Abdulkarim Hasheminejad (29 September 1981)[4] – Mashhad
- Mojtaba Ozbaki (23 December 1981)[5] – Shahrekord
- Mohammad-Taqi Besharat (28 December 1981)[6] – Semirom
Military and police officers
- Brigadier General Saeed Taheri (13 August 1972)[7] – Chief of Police of Tehran
- Brigadier General Reza Zandipoor (29 March 1975)[8] – Chief of Anti-sabotage Joint Committee Prison
- Seyyed Naser Mohsenpur (24 August 1981)[9] – Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps servicemen
- Colonel Houshang Vahid-Dastjerdi (5 September 1981)[10] – Chief of Police of Iran
- Mohammad Chavoushi (8 March 1982)[11] – Chief of the political and ideological office of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy
- Major General Ali Sayad Shirazi (10 April 1999)[12] – Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Iranian Armed Forces
Other officials
- Malek Boroujerdi (23 December 1978)[13] – Iranian Oilfield Services Company (IOSC) employee
- Mohammad Kachui (29 June 1981)[14] – Warden of Evin Prison
- Seyyed Hasan Beheshti (23 July 1981)[15] – Islamic Republican Party's candidate for the parliamentary elections
- Mohammad-Ali Ansari (6 July 1981)[16] – Governor of Gilan Province
- Ali Qoddousi (5 September 1981)[10] – Military prosecutor-general
- Mir Asadollah Madani (11 September 1981)[17] – Supreme leader's representative in East Azerbaijan Province
- Abdol-Hossein Dastgheib (11 December 1981)[18][19] – Supreme leader's representative in Fars Province
- Gholamali Jaaffarzadeh (23 December 1981)[5] – Governor of Mashhad County
- Mohammad-Salim Hosni (14 March 1982)[11] – Reconstruction Crusade official
- Ali-Mohammad Sadduqi (2 July 1982)[20] – Supreme leader's representative in Yazd Province
- Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani (15 October 1982)[21] – Supreme leader's representative in Kermanshah Province
- Hussein Ghane-Ghole (6 January 1987)[22] – Warden of Mashhad prison
- Jamshid Ghare-Sarvari (13 February 1987)[23] – Warden of Ahvaz prison
- Asadollah Lajevardi (23 August 1998)[24] – Former warden of Evin Prison
American citizens
- Lieutenant colonel Lewis L. Hawkins (2 June 1973)[25] – United States Army military adviser in Iran
- Colonel Paul R. Shaffer (21 May 1975)[25] – United States Air Force military adviser in Iran
- Lieutenant colonel Jack H. Turner (21 May 1975)[25] – United States Air Force military adviser in Iran
- Robert R. Krongrad (28 August 1976)[25] – Rockwell International employee
- William C. Cottrell, Jr. (28 August 1976)[25] – Rockwell International employee
- Donald G. Smith (28 August 1976)[25] – Rockwell International employee
- Paul E. Grimm (23 December 1978)[13] – Iranian Oilfield Services Company (IOSC) employee
Lebanese citizens
- Musa Shaib (28 July 1980)[26] – A leading member of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party in Lebanon
Turkish citizens
- Çağlar Yücel (12 December 1993)[27] – A diplomat at the embassy of Turkey in Iraq
Attempted assassinations
Heads of government branches
- Ali Khamenei (15 March 1985)[28] – President of Iran
- Mohammad Khatami (5 February 2000)[29] – President of Iran
Members of Parliament
- Habibollah Asgaroladi (20 July 1981)[30] – Tehran
- Hadi Khamenei (11 February 1987)[31] – Mashhad
Military and police officers
- Brigadier General Mohsen Rafighdoost (14 September 1998)[32] – Head of Mostazafan Foundation
- Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi (13 March 2000)[33] – Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
- Brigadier General Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf (7 January 2001)[34] – Chief of Police of Iran
Other officials
- Ahmad Khomeini (15 June 1982)[35] – Eldest son of the Supreme leader
- Mohammad Va'ez Abaee-Khorasani (22 April 1994)[36] – Member of the Assembly of Experts from Khorasan Province
- Mohammed Raisi (6 July 1997)[37] – Diplomat at Iranian Embassy in Madrid, Spain
- Ali Razini (5 January 1999)[38] – Head of Tehran's judiciary
American citizens
- Douglas MacArthur II (30 November 1970)[39] – United States Ambassador to Iran
- Brigadier General Harold Price (May 1972)[40]
- Richard Nixon (May 1972)[40] – United States President
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