Germany has issued an arrest warrant for Iran's intelligence chief, a man with controversial links to German spies, for the 1992 murder of four Kurdish opposition figures at a Berlin bar.
The warrant for Ali Fallahiyan was announced Friday by the Federal Prosecutor's Office.Following an investigation that began last November, the Karlsruhe agency said Fallahiyan's intelligence service is suspected of ordering the Sept. 17, 1992, assassination of Sadiq Sharafkindi, head of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, and three other opposition figures.
An Iranian and four Lebanese are currently on trial in Berlin for the killings.
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Fallahiyan is charged with four counts of murder and one of attempted murder.