Iran: Iran regime Supreme Leader and former President were directly linked the executions

France’s Kouchner urges probe of 1988 prison massacre in Iran

Former minister calls killing a ‘crime against humanity

BY NICHOLAS VINOCUR

PARIS — Former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and a top human rights lawyer called for an international probe into a 1988 killing of thousands of political prisoners in Iran, as new allegations linked members of the 

country’s current government to the spree of executions.

Kouchner, who was the French foreign minister from 2007 to 2010 under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, told POLITICO Iran’s killing of political prisoners at the end of the Iran-Iraq war was likely a crime against humanity that needed to be investigated and prosecuted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

    “It’s a crime against humanity and must be taken into account by the International Criminal Court,” said Kouchner. “The entire international community has a responsibility to shed light on these events and ensure that the criminals behind them face an investigation.”

Kouchner’s comments came a month after a recording surfaced that revealed disagreements between top Iranian officials during the killings, which occurred in the summer of 1988.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had issued a fatwa ordering the execution of all “hypocrites,” or political prisoners, locked up in Iranian jails. Most of them were members of an opposition group named Mujahedin-e Khalq(MEK), whose forces had defected to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq during the war, only to lose a decisive battle and face a crackdown at home...

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Paris - September 6, 2016, Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran exposed identities of dozens of officials responsible for 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran, according to intelligence obtained by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), most of the institutions of the Iranian regime are run by the perpetrators of the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners.

Background:

- More then 30,000 political prisonners were massacred in Iran in the summer of 1988

- The massacre was carried out on the basis of a fatwa by Khomeini.

- The vast majority of the victims were activists of the opposition PMOI (MEK).

- A Death Committee approved all the death sentences.

- Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, a member of the Death Committee, is today Hassan Rouhani’s Justice Minister

- The perpetrators of the 1988 massacre have never been brought to justice.