ASHARQ AL- AWSAT:1980,S Execution Haunts Top Iranian Officials
Explanation:
Asharq Al-Awsat the world’s
premier pan-Arab daily newspaper on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016 published an article which briefly covers the
major events in past 20 days regarding the development and serious effects of
an important revelation about the 1988 massacre of 30000 political prisoners in Iran.
Following is the full text of this article.
Heated controversy sparked-off 20
days ago as a recording for Iran’s Deputy Supreme Leader Hussein-Ali Montazeri
surfaced. The recording sounds Montazeri’s loud objection to many of the
regime-
carried death sentences in 1988.
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Iranian Interior
Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi talks during a news conference in Tehran, March
15, 2008
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Montazeri’scontroversial audio file had unearthed Iranian cases before the public,
especially those concerning the thousands of executions against political
activists.
Top
officials in Iran now are driven into a tight corner, as Montazeri’s comments
had fueled public agitation against the regime in light of the nearing of the
day commemorating the served deaths.
Rouhani’s
administration, self-labelled as a beacon of ‘hope and moderation’, had been
rendered tongue-tied as reports reveal officials responsible for former
collective executions being assigned to top posts in his government.
Rouhani’s
supportive bloc had also played a major role in the killings, with that being
revealed, followers who self-identify as ‘moderators’ were short to shocked.
Iran’s
parliament has directly been affected and received it fair cut of argument and
criticism against what is coming to be named the summer of mass executions.
Second Deputy of the Parliament of Iran Ali Motahari had addressed the current
minister of justice, who was a member from the 1988 “death commission” which
authorized the massacre of Iranian prisoners, Mostafa Pourmohammadi asking
immediate clarification on what had been accounted for in Montazeri’s
recording.
The facts:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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