The World - News from Sept. 10, 1989

An Iranian opposition figure who arrived in Cyprus from Sweden and was then gunned down Aug. 26 was the third victim since June of an apparent assassination program that may have been approved at high levels in Tehran, opposition officials and Western specialists said. Bahman Javadi, 33, a high-ranking member of the underground Iranian Communist Party and its Komala Kurdish guerrilla forces, was shot by two gunmen. There have been no arrests. One theory advanced by Western experts is that Iranian intelligence officials permitted and monitored a trip to Cyprus by Javadi’s mother and sister, whom he had not seen in eight years, so that he could be ambushed.