IFP - A newspaper in the Netherlands has confirmed an Iranian-born victim of a 2015 death case was �most certainly� the man behind the biggest terrorist attack in Iran�s history in which dozens of top officials including the country�s prime minister were killed in 1981.






The Amsterdam-based newspaper Het Parool reported the news, citing a Dutch court investigating the case as the source.

The court held its first hearing on Friday, where two Amsterdam citizens suspected of killing the 56-year-old guy named Ali Motamed in his apartment in the Dutch city of Almere in December 2015 defended themselves.

The report said Ali Motamed was in fact a new identity for Mohammad-Reza Kolahi Samadi, who is held responsible for the 1981 bombing of the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party in Tehran.

The bombing killed 72 high-ranking politicians and party members, among them Chief Justice Ayatollah Mohammad Behesthi, who was seen as the number two figure after founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Kolahi, a member of the Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who was a student at the time of the terror attack, came to the Netherlands as a political refugee in the 1980s.

He started a new life in the country as an electrician and married a Dutch woman who brought him a son.

Kolahi was sentenced to death in absentia and was an internationally wanted criminal.