Dawud Salahuddin

"Hassan Abdulrahman" redirects here. For the soccer player, see Hassan Abdulrahman (footballer).
Dawud Salahuddin
Born
David Theodore Belfield

(1950-11-10) November 10, 1950
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, U.S.
Other namesDaoud Salahuddin, Hassan Abdul Rahman, Hassan Abdulrahman, Hassan Tantai
Known forAssassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabaei

Dawud Salahuddin (born 1950; sometimes spelled Daoud Salahuddin, also known as Hassan Abdulrahman, Hassan Tantai) is an American-born Iranian international terrorist, and worked for the military, as well as in education, as a web designer, film and television. He converted to Islam in 1980 and killed Ali Akbar Tabatabai the same year at Tabatabai's home in Bethesda, Maryland; Tabatabai was an Iranian dissident and critic of Ruhollah Khomeini. Salahuddin is a fugitive from justice living in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Salahuddin is the last person known to have seen Robert Levinson, a CIA agent who disappeared in Kish Island, Iran, in March 2007.

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