iran panorama

  Written by Shamsi Saadati A conference held in Paris on August 21, 2023, commemorated the 35th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran. Titled “Four Decades of Crime against Humanity and Impunity from Punishment,” the event gathered esteemed international judges and jurists from all around the world. In her  opening remarks ,  Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran , stressed the need to end impunity for the Iranian regime’s leaders, emphasizing accountability for their involvement in genocide and crimes against humanity. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi said, “For the past four decades, the regime’s central slogan has been “Death to the Hypocrites.” This chant is echoed without fail at every official ceremony. The term “hypocrite” is the regime’s derogatory reference to the PMOI. In its relations with any country in the world, the regime has declared its most significant red line to be any association with the...

  On the afternoon of Thursday, July 27, 2023, a draft resolution was passed in the US House of Representatives “condemning the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the killing of political prisoners in 1988 and the uprisings of recent years, including those of 2018, 2019, and 2022, and calling for justice for its victims.” The bipartisan bill killed 40 representatives, initiated by Republican Lance Gooden of the Judiciary Committee and Democratic Caucus Chairman Steve Cohen. The draft states that the Prime Minister of Albania wrote in a letter to the MEP on April 19, 2016: Albania is fully engaged and committed to guaranteeing all the rights enshrined in the Geneva Convention of 1951, the European Convention on Human Rights, and all international laws relating to Iranian refugees. The resolution calls on the United States government to ensure with Albania the full protection of Iranian political refugees in Ashraf 3 and their enjoyment of all rights under the 1951 Geneva...

  When Ebrahim Raisi was   inaugurated   as the next president on August 5, it was the culmination of more than 30 years of impunity for both him and the regime as a whole. In 1988, while serving as Tehran’s deputy prosecutor, Raisi became one of four figures in charge of a massacre of political prisoners that went on for three months and claimed at least 30,000 lives. Various legal scholars have called this massacre one of the late 20th century’s worst crimes against humanity, with many say that it fits the criteria to be prosecuted as an instance of genocide. Yet no one has ever faced accountability for the killings, and this has emboldened the regime to reward the perpetrators with ever more powerful and influential positions. With Raisi’s appointment to the presidency, that process has very nearly reached its apex. His June 18 “election” was orchestrated by the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who tasked the Guardian Council to exercise its vetting authority by e...

 Written by Mohammad Sadat Khansari The call for international  investigations  into the 1988 massacre has gained a great deal of support in recent years. As the justice-seeking campaign for holding the perpetrators of the 1988 massacre expands, it is necessary to be acquainted with the perpetrators of this crime against humanity. One of these criminals is Mostafa Pourmohammadi, a former Interior and Justice Minister. Pourmohammadi was a member of Tehran’s “death commission”, which executed thousands of political prisoners in the 1988 massacre. Who is Mostafa Pourmohammadi? Pourmohammadi was born in Qom in 1959. He attended the seminary from an early age. Before Iran’s 1979 revolution he was a student at Haqqani school in Qom, where most of the regime’s top officials and clerics studied. Months after the 1979 revolution, Pourmohammadi was dispatched to Khuzestan, southwest Iran, as the province’s “Prosecutor of the Revolutionary Court.” According to eyewitnesses, Mostafa ...