Fadhil Rassoul

Fadhil Rassoul (Kurdish: فازیل ڕەسوڵ; 1947–1989) was an academic at the University of Vienna.

[1] He was born in Slemani, Kurdistan Region and was assassinated by the Iranian government in Vienna together with Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou while acting as mediator.

[2] At the time of his assassination he was the editor of Algerian magazine El Hiwar (The Dialogue) by Ahmed Ben Bella, former president of Algeria who is also reported as a friend of his.

[4] He is said to have completed his PhD in Berlin in 1985 [5] with the title: "Superpower Policy and Freedom Struggle - Kurdistan and Soviet Middle East Policy"[6] and also reported as being a researcher at "Austrian Institute of International Relations"[7] and in other sources as a freelancer at the same institute.

He is known to have been a left leaning academic but goes through a radical change to become a moderate Islamist and starts befriending Islamic scholars.