Abstract
ABSTRACT An elaborate sting operation by Iranian security (SAVAK) centred on Abbas Shahriyari, an able SAVAK secret agent and a Tudeh Party member, to entrap underground leftist activists in the 1960s unwittingly unleashed a complex transnational web involving Iranian opposition and Soviet intelligence. The People’s Fadai Guerrillas (PFG) eventually assassinated Shahriyari and vastly propagated this operation through an extensive communiqué. The assassination marked the decisive, and highly symbolic, rejection of the legacy of the Tudeh Party by the rising Marxist PFG that came from an entirely younger generation, but it unwittingly also exposed in retrospect the complex web of actors drawn into SAVAK’s sting operations. This paper situates this assassination in its historical context and quadrangular web of Tudeh Party, PFG, Soviet intelligence, and SAVAK. It offers a close reading of PFG’s extensive communication about this assassination as the break within Iran’s communist movement.
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