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Hamid Abutalebi, biography of an Iranian diplomat with ties to terrorism

Mullah Hassan Rouhani in March appointed Hamid Abutalebi as the regime’s ambassador in the United Nations. However, the US has refused to provide a visa to this diplomat-terrorist-hostage taker due to his long record in criminal and terrorist activities. The following is a brief biography of him. Let’s get more acquainted with so called ‘moderate’ Rouhani’s new envoy in the UN:
Hamid Abutalebi was born in 1957 in the city of Tehran. He was one of the masterminds behind the US Embassy takeover in Tehran in November 1979. He also took part in interviews conducted with various members of the hostage taking teams, specifically on March 9th with the Khabar Online website when he said, “I was an interpreter for those taking over the embassy”!, trying to whitewash his record.

Hamid Abutalebi: a founder of exporting fundamentalism

The Iranian regime’s export of fundamentalism began in 1979 under the pretext of “Liberation Movements”. State sources have said Hamid Abutalebi was one of the first individuals travelling to Algeria in 1979 to establish the “Liberation Movements”. Others included Engineer Seyed Mohammad Hashemi Isfahani who had an interview with the state-run ‘Iran’ daily on 18 Nov 2013 regarding the hostage-taking in the former US Embassy, “In 1979 by taking over the US Embassy in Tehran we launched another wave of Islamic revolution, or as Khomeini said, the second revolution. They started to invite ‘Liberation Movements’ and Mr. Abdi and Mr. Hamid Abutalebi went to Algeria on behalf of the Khomeini’s college student followers, inviting 17 liberation movements from across the globe to Tehran. This meant we had a unit between various movements in one hand (meaning college student followers of Khomeini) and the 52 American hostages in the other.”
From 1985 when Hassan Rouhani became the Secretary of the regime’s Supreme National Security Council, the mullahs’ began assassinating dissidents inside and outside of Iran, all approved by this body and with orders issued to terrorist units covered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the regime’s diplomat terrorists. One of these assassination victims was Mohammad Hossein Naghdi, killed on 16 March 1993. During this attack Hamid Abutalebi was the Iranian regime’s ambassador in Italy. He played a key and direct role in recon, planning and actually carrying out this attack, including the fact that the Italian government was opposed to Hamid Parande entering its soil (Hamid Parande was the man who murdered Naghdi and fired the bullets at the scene) and Abutalebi actively was seeking to facilitate the entrance of this murderer into Italy. Finally, by identifying Hamid Parande as one of the close and trusted men of Ali Akbar Velayati (former Iranian regime foreign minister and now close Khamenei confidant), Abutalebi requested a diplomatic visa for him from the Italian government. 18 days before assassinating Naghdi, Hamid Parande was introduced as the Iranian Embassy’s official in charge of coding, entering Italy with a diplomatic passport. From his entrance to Italy he was able to mislead the security forces in order to carry out his crime on March 16th without being detected.
Abutalebi was informed beforehand of all the exact details of this plot and had travelled back and forth to Tehran on a number of occasions. In planning this assassination it was specified that at the time of the murder Hamid Talebi should be in Tehran and taking part in Friday prayers so he would be seen in public, in order to cover up his role in this assassination. Despite all these efforts, the Rome Criminal Court in its hearings on 16 and 18 December 2008 issued a ruling after three months of reviewing and on the day marking Mohammad Hossein Naghdi’s assassination, registering Abutalebi’s role in this murder. This 21-page ruling has cited eyewitness testimony, widespread investigation by Italian officials and documents provided by the National Council of Resistance of Iran. This court ruling sheds light on the decision making and execution stages of this murder, and the investigation phase, with exact detail, and it has been announced that the decision to murder Naghdi was “due to his serious political activities in Italy, his skill in establishing relations with the highest ranking members of Italy’s political class, his undeniable humane skill and his tireless struggle” against the mullahs’ regime. This decision was made by the highest ranking political-religious figures in Tehran, and assigned to a group that entered Italy with this specific plan and in full coordination with Iran’s diplomatic representatives in Italy, and especially Hamid Abutalebi, the regime’s ambassador in Italy.
According to Italian police in 2003 Abutalebi was for this very reason banned from entering the Schengen area. Another part of the Italian criminal police report states, “Abutalebi and Naghdi knew each other from the 1979 Iranian revolution. Abutalebi’s personal interest in the murder of Naghdi was on one hand due to his religious duty based on the fatwa issued in this regard, and for his knowledge of this subject that considering the victim’s acquaintance with the ambassador, there were good assets available to carry out this ruling without any risks. In addition to all this, a project was carried out in this regard with personal goals to upgrade his (Abutalebi) position.”
Abutalebi was first active in the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence branch, and through this route he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs back in 1981. He had various roles such as the regime’s ambassador in countries such as Italy, Belgium, Australia and the European Union (for 15 years); Political Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (for 5 years); advisor of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (for 5 years) and a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Strategic Council. In 1982 he was transferred to the intelligence branch in the mullahs’ embassy in Paris. Two years later he returned to Tehran and after some time was transferred to the regime’s embassy in Senegal. The Senegal government, however, viewed him as an undesirable individual and forced him to leave the country.

Hamid Abutalebi in the Rafsanjani-Rouhani faction

Abutalebi is a diplomat-terrorist with views very close to Hassan Rouhani. He was alongside Rouhani in the regime’s Center of Strategic Research, and Rouhani appointed him as the ‘Political Deputy of the Presidential Office” on 8 October 2013.
Hamid Abutalebi was also one of the regime’s secret diplomatic negotiators with the US, having a role in the covert talks regarding the 3 US hikers that the regime had kidnapped on Iraqi soil and returned to its own territory. Afterwards he was also among the secret negotiators during the regime’s nuclear talks.

Other links about Hamid Abutalebi:

Appointing Abutalebi as Iran’s UN envoy is troublesome: US State Dept.

House GOP looks to deny U.S. visa to Iran’s ambassador

Senior US senators say don’t permit new Iran’s UN envoy into US

US State Dept. yet to issue visa for Iran’s new UN envoy

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