Sadegh Sharafkandi is killed by masked gunmen at the Mykonos Greek restaurant on 17 September 1992 in Berlin, Germany, together with two members of the KDPI’s Central Committee, Fattah Abdoli and Homayoun Ardalan, and a translator. In a subsequent trial in Germany, an Iranian, Kazem Darabi, and a Lebanese, Abbas Rhayel, are found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

In April 1997, however, a German court issues an international arrest warrant for Iranian intelligence minister Hojjat al-Islam Ali Fallahian, whom it says ordered the assassination of Sharafkandi with the knowledge of Iran’s Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khomenei. The court ruling leads to a diplomatic crisis between Iran and several Western nations.

In April 1997 a German court issues an international arrest warrant for an Iranian intelligence minister, for ordering the assassination of KDPI leader Sadegh Sharafkandi with the knowledge of Iran’s Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khomenei

The German court’s ruling leads to a diplomatic crisis between Iran and several Western nations.

Despite international protests, the convicted killers Darabi and Rhayel are released in 1997 and deported back to Iran and Lebanon respectively.