The 1988 massacre in Iran

NCRI - 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

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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