Sargon Dadesho (Syriac: ܣܪܓܘܢ ܕܕܝܫܘܥ, Arabic: سركون داديشو; born September 18, 1948, in Habbaniyah, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American author, broadcaster, activist,[1] and nationalist leader of Assyrian descent.
[2] The roots of his activism stem back to his college years, when he began to read more seriously about Assyrian history after wanting to understand why his family left Iraq.
However, Dadesho desired to find a different and more militant solution to ending persecution against Assyrians in Iraq, and so he left the AUA to found the Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party in California in 1974.
[1] The party was founded as a union between Dadesho's 501(c)(03) non-profit organization Bet-Nahrain, Inc. and the Quest Movement in Chicago, headed by other advocates such as Gilyana Yonan.
Although Khoshaba was initially released due to a lack of physical evidence, he would soon after be indicted for attempting to assassinate Dadesho, as well as Jalal Talabani who had planned to visit the area.
[18] In April 2003, he was awarded an additional $2.4 million that came from the confiscated assets of the Iraqi government, and was one of a number of victims to finally collect judgments from lawsuits filed after the first Gulf War.
[1] Zinda also alleged that Dadesho had provided media services to other political groups in exchange for funding, noting two separate programs that espoused Anti-Iranian sentiment where the hosts spoke Azerbaijani and Arabic.