Andy, anyone who questions the question of rogue units inside Iran should recall the 1997 Germany court verdict in the Mykonos Trial (which tried the hitmen in the 1992 assassination in a Berlin restaurant of three Iranian dissidents and their translator) and then the 1998 and 1999 “Serial Killings.” In each case, the orders for the rogue units came from top officials, in the first case, the Supreme Leader and Hashemi Rafsanjani, and in the latter case, the deputy minister of intelligence who, mysteriously, committed suicide in prison by drinking hair removal cream before he could testify as to from whom he received his orders.

About the Author
Michael Rubin is Director of Policy Analysis at the Middle East Forum and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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