The leader of an Iranian extremist pressure group staged a rally outside the German Embassy in Tehran Friday and invited demonstrators to sign up for suicide bombings in retaliation for a court ruling blaming Iran’s top leaders for 1992 political assassinations in Berlin. Italy’s intelligence agency warned that international airports in that country and even Pope John Paul II could also be the targets of Islamic terrorists angered over the court ruling. “We will confront insults to Islam and our religious leadership wherever in the world they occur. We are even ready to strap a bomb around our waists and go for martyrdom,” Hossein Allah-Karam, head of the Ansar’e Hezbollah group, told the Tehran demonstration. “Woe to you if you do not apologize for your actions.” Ansar’e Hezbollah is not believed to have the power to carry out such threats.
