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In 1980, David Belfield (aka Dawud Salahuddin) assassinated Ali Akbar Tabatabaei, a former Shah-era Iranian official, in Bethesda, Maryland, then fled to Iran. There he reportedly fought with the Afghan mujahedeen, worked as a web editor for Iranian state TV, and acted in the 2001 film Kandahar. Explore The State of Maryland v. David Belfield, a case that remains open and is truly stranger than fiction.
