Former President of Tehran University: justice- seeking movement for massacre prisoners in 1988 has
On Monday August 29, Dr.
Mohammad Maleki, the first President of Tehran University after the
anti-monarchic revolution in Iran, in an interview that published on the
Internet commented on the 1988 massacre of political prisoners and support of
the massacre by the Iranian regime’s Assembly of Experts and Mullah
Pour-Mohammadi, current Justice Minister in Rouhani’s government. Dr. Maleki
said: "The government cannot maintain its power with crime, massacre and
murder.”
When asked why the regime officials,
who first denied this massacre, are now supporting it, he said: “The fact is
that you can hide the truth from public eyes for a while, but not forever.”
“Many things had happened to us
in prison before we got out in 1980s. When we told people, they did not
believe, until a few years ago, no one believed. They thought it was hypocrisy
and the same previous words (of Khomeini who used to say), ‘they themselves
kill themselves, and put the blame on us.’ So, that is what it was until Mr.
Montazeri’s audio file (on the 1988 massacre) was released. And they (the
regime’s officials) had to acknowledge it because they had no choice.”
“Now that they accepted it, the next step is to justify and go
along with it. So, they started attacking the Mujahedeen (PMOI/MEK) again. They
said: These people have committed murder and crimes, and so on….”
“However, now, little by little, the number and statistics of
this massacre is being specified. People are now regularly sending videos from
various cities that here is the burial place of the martyrs of 1988 massacre.”
“Contrary to what they said, that the massacre was only in
Tehran and they were not more than 4 to 5 thousands, this
is not the case. The problem was all over Iran and even in the villages. The
Assembly of Experts admitted that ‘We could not maintain our rule (regime) if
we hadn’t done it.’ Well, let go the regime. Do you do all sort of crimes in
the world in order to maintain the regime? The government cannot maintain its
power with crime, massacre and murder.”
In response to a question about Pour-Mohammadi’s comment
who said he has done God’s Commandment, Dr. Maleki said: “I do not know what
the level of Pour-Mohammadi in religious matters is, but that God’s Commandment
that even Mr. Montazeri did not understand, how he who is not more than an
illiterate seminary student has understood and has done God's Commandment…
Where did he get this God’s Commandment from? His obscenity is when he says ‘We
did it, we do it again now, and we are proud of it….’ He now as Justice
Minister in Rouhani’s government lashes, kills, hangs, and their news are
regularly published."
In response to the question of what is your analysis of these
executions, Dr. Maleki said: “These dictatorships and authoritarian regimes can
only rule by creating fear and atmosphere of terror among the people. They have
executed 80 to 90 to 100 people in the past two weeks. They think that they can
govern with these killings and spreading terror and prevent the people
(uprising) and intimidate and frighten them so that they do not attempt to protest,
while history has shown that these things hardly result in anything in favor of
dictators and the fate of tyrants is clear. The fate of a regime that wants to
rule by force, killing and bloodshed and live on blood and bayonet is clear.”
When asked what the prospect is, the first President of Tehran
University after the anti-monarchic revolution said: “Unlike the past that they
could silence the issue, but this time the issue is global. Now there are
protests all over the world for justice, and I think that this issue will be
dragged... and the depth and magnitude of the disaster becomes more and more
clear... and the people who are fairly awakened and will be more awakened will
decide the fate of the regime of Velayat-e Faqih (Supreme Leader).”
Background:
In the summer of 1988,
the Iranian regime summarily and extra-judicially executed tens of thousands of
political prisoners held in jails across Iran. The massacre was carried out on
the basis of a fatwa by the regime’s then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
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