Mustafa Dirani (Arabic: مصطفى الديراني; born 1951)[1] is a former head of security in the Amal Movement in Lebanon.
In 1987, he started reaching out to pro-Iran sources, and eventually established contact between them and the rest of the Amal leadership.
[2] Dirani was taken from his home in Kasarnaba in the eastern Beqaa by Israeli airborne commandos on 27 May 1994.
[6][7] Initially, the International Red Cross was denied permission to see Dirani, but a court order forced Israeli prison authorities to comply with legal rules.
[9] In January 2004, in a German-mediated prisoner swap, Dirani, along with 22 other Lebanese detainees, about 400 Palestinians, and 12 Israeli-Arab prisoners, was released in exchange for the bodies of three Israeli soldiers and abducted Israeli businessman Elchanan Tannenbaum.