A slender man dressed in a gray postal uniform rang the doorbell of an elegant $250,000 house in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., one morning last week. He brought two special delivery packages for the occupant, Ali Akbar Tabatabai, 49. As the balding Iranian bent over to examine them, the "mailman" killed him with three shots from a 9-mm pistol concealed in a sheaf of envelopes.
Tabatabai had been a popular figure around Washington in his days as press attaché at the Shah's embassy. After the fall of the regime, he organized the Iran Freedom Foundation, a vocal anti-Khomeini group that...
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