2nd Iranian Said to Be Suspect in Killings
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Prosecutors are investigating another Iranian in the 1992 assassinations of four exiled Iranian dissidents, Der Spiegel newsmagazine said. The report is likely to further anger Iran, where anti-German feelings have been running high since a Berlin court convicted an Iranian and four Lebanese men in the killings on April 10. The court accused Iran’s leaders of ordering the assassinations. Since the ruling, crowds have staged sometimes violent protests outside the German Embassy in Tehran. The target of the prosecutors’ investigation, Der Spiegel said, is Abdolrahman Banihashemi.
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