Document #1032210
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information about a monarchist group or any
group named AGHRAB could not be found among the sources currently
available to the IRB Documentation Centre. However, attached please
find an excerpt taken from Dilip Hiro, Iran Under the
Ayatollahs (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987), pp.
153157, which describes the Nojeh (spelled Nouzheh in the Hiro
text) coup attempt in July 1980.
The text says that the coup attempt was
masterminded by Shahpour Bakhtiar and General Oveissi along with
two former generals (p. 156), while both Bakhtiar and Oveissi were
exiled in Paris (p. 155). The excerpt mentions the name of Major
General Amir Bahman Bagheri as the commander of the air force at
the time (p. 155), however the other names do not appear anywhere
in
Hiro's book. Bagheri was found to be part of a network of royalist
officers and was arrested in June 1980 (p. 155). The Khomeini
government in order to rid the military of its disloyal members,
executed approximately 108 military officers and purged close to
4,500 personnel in July and August 1980 (p. 156).
2), 4)
Information regarding DERAFESH was sent to
you separately on 30 April 1990 under information request number
irn4747. No further information has been found among the sources
currently available to the IRB Documentation Centre.
3)
No information regarding an anti-Iranian
demonstration in Istanbul in 1980 could be found among the sources
currently available to the IRBDC.