Mesbahi stated he fled Iran in 1996 after his former co-worker Emami warned him of an assassination order. Mesbahi was offered asylum in Germany where he was a witness in the Mykonos restaurant assassinations trial, contributing to a German court ruling blaming Iranian government officials for the attack and issuing an arrest warrant for former Iranian Intelligence Minister Fallahian. It was implied that Emami’s arrest was at least in part for this action.
He was accused of having independently organized the assassinations of dissidents (known as the “chain murders”).Emami was born in Abadeh, near Shiraz. In 1978, he moved to the United States with the help of his uncle, Soltan Mohammad Etemad, to pursue his studies in mechanical engineering. Following the Iranian Revolution, he returned to Homeland and became involved in intelligence gathering. In 1984, when the Parliament approved the establishment of the Ministry of Intelligence , he joined the ministry and worked at the foreign directorate during Mohammad Reyshahri’s term.
