French Exile and Series of Assassination Attempts
From his base in Paris, Bakhtiar led the National Movement of Iranian Resistance, which fought the Islamic republic in his homeland. The Islamic Republic issued a death sentence for him. On 18 July 1980, he escaped an assassination attempt by a group of three attackers in his home in Neuilly, a suburb of Paris, which killed a policeman and a neighbor. The assassination team was captured.
Read more about this topic: Shapour Bakhtiar
Famous quotes containing the words french, exile, series and/or attempts:
“The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say “death”;
For exile hath more terror in his look,
Much more than death. Do not say “banishment!””
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is in every either-or a certain naivete which may well befit the evaluator, but ill- becomes the thinker, for whom opposites dissolve in series of transitions.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)