U.S Congress Resolution Condemns Iran Regime’s Mass Executions
• More than 30,000 political
prisoners were massacred in Iran in the summer of 1988.
• The massacre was carried out on
the basis of a fatwa by Khomeini.
• 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.
• On August 9, 2016, an audio
tape was published for the first time of Khomeini’s former heir acknowledging
that that massacre took place and had been ordered at the highest levels.
An article in the Huffington
Post has highlighted a
new resolution in the United States
Congress on the 1988 massacre of political
prisoners in Iran.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, President of the International American
Council, wrote: “A resolution (H.Res.
159) was recently introduced in the U.S. Congress in reference to one of the
worst mass executions of
political prisoners since WWII
by the Islamic
Republic of Iran. The House Homeland Security Chair, Mike
McCaul, introduced the
resolution, which was cosponsored by the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair
Ed Royce, Ranking Member Eliot Engel, and Rules Committee Chair Rep. Peter
Sessions. The resolution came as Hassan Rouhani, president of a government
that ranked as
the world’s top executioner per capita, was addressing the 71st Session of the
United Nations General Assembly.” …
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/majid-rafizadeh/us-congress-resolution-co_b_12224140.html
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