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Iranian film-director, film producer and documentary filmmaker known for his TV series The Messiah Nader Talebzadeh has been victim of biological terror in Iraq through toxic bags.

Talebzadeh told news outlets that a year and a half earlier, he had joined a Lebanese caravan to attend the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Iraq to visit the shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala, as is the Shia tradition every year.

He said that as soon as he arrived to Najaf, his bag was confiscated and was given to him almost six days later in Karbala. “They had also checked my laptop and inspected it, and deleted all the information on it,” he noted.

He went on to say that his laptop contained information related to the “New Horizon” conference that was held in Tehran a year and a half ago, and was a matter of strong objection to the Anti-Defamation League in the US. After he received his luggage and laptop, Nader started to suffer stong bloody coughs that were unexplainable.

According to the filmmaker, Dr. Ali Karmi, specialized in bio-terrorism has affirmed the case.

“If I was aware of such a thing, I would not have even used my luggage, but it did not cross my mind,” Talebzadeh said.

Agents used in bioterrorism usually include viruses, bacteria, rickettsiae (microorganisms that have traits common to both bacterial and viruses), fungi, and biological toxins. Bioterrorism has been around a very long time - at least dating back to the 14th century where besieging Tartar armies catapulted infected carcasses into cities to spread disease.

Bioterrorism has become a more tangible threat following the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, the release of anthrax in the US in October 2001 and the more recent discovery of traces of the toxin ricin in a London flat in January 2003.

In his opening speech, Nader Talebzadeh, the director of the New Horizon Conference, explained the goal of the conference as, “distributing the articles and thoughts of top intellectuals and philosophers worldwide among Iranian universities and artists,” and that, “The emergence of ideology of criticizing the dominance of the Zionist lobby over the USA and EU, which is going to make some changes in the West, has made it an essential and attractive subject to learn.”

Talebzadeh, who completed his undergraduate studies in English and attended Columbia University Film School in New York City has directed, written and produced numerous award-winning documentary films about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. As an independent documentary filmmaker he was witness to the atrocities committed during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war of the mid-1980s.