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Two of the assassins escaped to Iran. A third, Ali Vakili Rad, was apprehended in Switzerland, along with an alleged accomplice, Zeynalabedine Sarhadi, a great-nephew of the president of Iran at the time, Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Zeid-Abadi, who wrote a weekly column for Rooz Online, a Farsi- and English-language reformist news …