Iran: Members of the Rouhani government selected which political prisoners were killed.

The DANGERROUS MYTH OF ROUHANI’S BOGUS MODERTION

Could any serious argument be made for holding back the shocking truths about the Rouhani administration’s human rights record both before and after Rouhani took office in 2013? If not, why it is buried underneath the supposed successes of the nuclear agreement and the January prisoner exchange? Gulio Terzi former Italian minister of foreignaffairs answeres these questions and much more in his article published in NewsWeek on September 23, Following is the full text:

Today it should be clear that such moderation is not taking hold. There is no longer any serious argument to be made for holding back the shocking truths about the Rouhani administration’s human rights record both before and after Rouhani took office in 2013.

There is no longer any reason to assume that Rouhani is substantively different from all the other figures who were active in the Iranian regime in its early days, and especially at the time of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988, primarily the activists of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.

As recently revealed information about that massacre demonstrates, all those officials who voiced opposition to it or other human rights abuses were ousted from the regime. Those who participated, and especially those who participated eagerly, were richly rewarded and generally remain leading members of the regime to this day.

These include members of the Rouhani administration such as Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who was in 1988 the Intelligence Ministry’s representative to the Tehran “death commission,” tasked with selecting political prisoners for execution.

The prevalence of such figures in today’s Iranian government is a clear indication that the expectation of moderation is and always was based on an illusion.

Challenges to the regime’s foreign aggression and domestic violence cannot be expected to come from anywhere within the regime itself. They can only come from brave Iranian activists and from the international community.

Role of HassanRouhani in 1988 massacre of political prisoners:

Hassan Rouhani was Deputy Commander-in-chief of the regime's armed forces at the 

time (1988)

In 1988, he was fully cognizant of this hideous crime and obviously was in full conformity

This shows that the notion that Rouhani is a “moderate” and “reform minded” is absolutely preposterous and baseless

Actually he, like all other senior officials of the regime, is a culprit of this hideous crime.