Iran - 27th anniversary of massacre of 30000 political prisoners in Iran

Saturday marks the 27th anniversary of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran. In the summer of 1988, one month after Ruhollah Khomeini was forced to accept a cease-fire in his eight-year war with Iraq, the fundamentalist ruler of the mullahs’ regime ordered a mass execution of all political prisoners affiliated with the main opposition groupPeople’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI(Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK).

30,000 political prisoners

The brutal prison massacre, which has been described by some international human rights lawyers as the greatest crime against humanity that has gone unpunished since the Second World War, saw the execution of some 30,000 defenseless prisoners.

Near the end of the Iran-Iraq war, Khomeini who felt that defeat was imminent, decided to take his revenge on the political prisoners. He issued a fatwa (or religious decree) ordering the massacre of anyone who had not repented and was not willing to collaborate fully with the regime.

Khomeini decreed: "Whoever at any stage continues to belong to the Monafeqin (PMOI) must be executed. Annihilate the enemies of Islam immediately." He added: "Those who are in prisons throughout the country and remain steadfast in their support for the PMOI are waging war on God and are condemned to execution...It is naive to show mercy to those who wage war on God."

The Iranian regime has never acknowledged these executions, or provided any information as to how many prisoners were summarily killed. Young girls, old parents, students, workers, and many of those who had already finished their sentences prior to 1988 were among those who vanished in the span of a few months. Their bodies were dumped into mass graves, including in Khavaran Cemetery near Tehran.

Khomeini had assigned an "Amnesty Commission" for prisoners. In reality it was a "Death Commission: comprised of the three individuals: A representative of the Ministry of Intelligence, a religious judge and a prosecutor. Most trials lasted for just a few minutes and resembled more of an interrogation session. The questions were focused on whether the prisoner still had any allegiances to the PMOI (MEK), whose supporters made up more than 90 percent of the prisoners. If the prisoners were not willing to collaborate fully with the regime against the PMOI (MEK), it was viewed as a sign of sympathy to the organization and the sentence was immediate execution. The task of the Death Commission was to determine whether a prisoner was an Enemy of God or not. In the case of Mojahedin prisoners, that determination was often made after only a single question about their party affiliation. Those who said "Mojahedin" rather than the derogatory term "Monafeqin" (meaning hypocrites) were sent to the gallows.

None of the perpetrators of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran and none of the regime's senior officials including the Supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, have been brought to justice to date.

Iran - Iranian people pay with their blood for human right

Seeing this photo burns me down to my bones; Reyhaneh Jabbari’s mother

Reyhaneh Jabbari

In a letter posted on her facebook page, Mrs. Sholeh Pakravan, Reyhaneh Jabbari’s mother writes: 'It burns me deep down just seeing the pictures of the so called P5+1 sitting with the Iranian murderers of our loved ones. I don’t want to believe that they are just after those dirty oil dollars. I don’t want to think that it is my Reyhaneh who dances at the end of the rope while hanging from the noose, but those greedy eyes can only see the number on the dollars.'
Reyhaneh Jabbari, a 26-year old university student and decorator was hanged on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014 in Gohardasht prison by the inhumane regime of mullahs in Iran. She was accused of defending her honor stabbing a man who had attacked her during a sexual abuse when she was only 19 years old. She spent 7 years behind bars being harassed and tortured and beaten during this time and when she didn’t submit to her prison guards, met the ultimate punishment.
Amnesty International called it 'another bloody stain on the mullshs’ human rights record.'
Responding to the West’s attempts to open business with the dictators in Iran, Ms. Sholeh writes: 'Who could they close their eyes to so many being hanged in Iran. How can they know the number of executions, but turn their heads the other way?'
According to Amnesty’s records, 3 people are executed (hanged) every single day in Iran. 'How can they ignore their conscious, when they see the tears of Sattar’s mother, or Saied’s mother who has been looking for her loved one in dozens of prisons for months and months hopping to find her son? Or the tearful eyes of Neda’s mother whose daughter was shot by a government paramilitary force whose identity was later revealed by the people, but never was caught? And how can they ignore seeing the faces of dozens of young women splashed with acid by the government backed militants while not even one single suspect has been apprehended?'
She concludes her open letter to the world by saying that she is waiting for the day that world come to its senses and value the life of the people more than the value of dollar bill, the day that the most precious thing on earth would be human life and human dignity and not money…

Iran regime to hang man for crime allegedly committed aged 15

The regime in Iran plans to execute over the weekend an Iranian who was 15 years old when he was alleged to have committed a crime, Amnesty International has said.

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"Juvenile offender Salar Shadizadi is at imminent risk of execution for a murder allegedly committed when he was 15 years old. He is scheduled to be executed on 1 August. Salar Shadizadi was arrested in February 2007 on a charge of murdering a friend. He was sentenced to death in December that year, under the Islamic principle of qesas (retribution-in-kind), by Branch 11 of the Criminal Court of Appeal in the northern province of Gilan. His sentence was upheld three months later, by Branch 37 of the Supreme Court," Amnesty International said in an Urgent Action appeal on Monday.

Iran - Another 2 hanged in iran ,10 more on death row\

Inmates facing imminent executions in iran, all part of D country,&every day!

  Iran -  Hanging  youth

Two more prisoners were hanged Monday morning in Iran’s notorious Qezelhesar Prison in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran.

The two prisoners were identified as Saeid Ganji and Firouz Nouri-Majd.

Ganji, Nouri-Majd and at least one other prisoner in Qezelhesar Prison were transferred to solitary confinement on Sunday in preparation for their execution, and their relatives were contacted to meet with them in the prison for a final time.

There are reports that the number of prisoners awaiting imminent execution in the jail could in fact be higher.

Another 10 death-row prisoners in Iran have been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their execution.

Nine prisoners, being held in a detention center in Karaj, west of Tehran, were transferred to solitary confinement on Saturday in preparation for their execution. On Sunday, their relatives were told to come to the jail to meet for a final time with their loved ones.

The nine prisoners were identified as Omid Mohammadi-Dara, Mostafa Ghafarzadeh, Omidreza Karampour, Shahriar Hassan-Zadeh, Hossein Afghan, Yareh Hassan-Zadeh, Sasan Salari, Meysam Hosseini-Nejad, and Amanollah Baluch-Zehi.

At least 18 prisoners have been executed in Iran in the past six days.

Faced with escalating popular discontent and unable to respond to the rightful demands of the majority of the Iranian people who are living under the poverty line, the religious fascism ruling Iran - dubbed the ‘godfather of ISIS’ by the Iranian people - is ramping up suppression.

On Thursday, Amnesty International said that the Iranian regime has executed an astonishing 694 people between January 1 and July 15, 2015.

“Iran’s staggering execution toll for the first half of this year paints a sinister picture of the machinery of state carrying out premeditated judicially-sanctioned killing on a mass scale,” it said.

Since mullah Hasssan Rouhani took office as President, more than 1,800 prisoners have been executed in Iran.

White House: ready to provide secret nuclear files to Congress

White House: ready to provide secret nuclear files to Congress

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The White House announced on Thursday it is ready to present more information to members of Congress on articles of the secret agreement between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The agreement signed between Iran and the IAEA is not an  document to the deal but an important part of it, said White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.

The White House is ready to inform members of Congress the articles of this classified agreement in a closed-door session, he added.

Republicans in Congress had prior to this slammed the White House for not presenting to Congress the secret document between Iran and the IAEA.

Iran - Message by Massoud Rajavi

   Massoud Rajavi 

Iran: authorities body-search imprisoned priest

Iranian-American Priest Saeed Abedini

Priest Saeed Abedini, imprisoned in Iran

, imprisoned in Iran, was body-searched and saw his belongings inspected by prison authorities on July 21, reports indicate. Chief of ward 4 in Gohardasht Prison (in Karaj, west of Tehran) carried out these measures. Along with a number of prison guards he forced this priest to wake up, conducted a body search and inspected all his belongings.

Iran - “Like the mother of Moses, I trusted my children to the Nile”, Iran activist says

A mother whose two young children have been left unattended

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Ali and Kiana, the 8-year old twin children of activist Narges Mohammadi, left Iran on July 17th while their mother remains behind bars. They have gone to live with their father in France.

Narges Mohammadi has written a letter describing the harassment she has endured in prison. She has resembled the hard difficulties of being separated from her children to the mother of Moses entrusting her son to the Nile.
 Iran: activist must be sent to hospital for treatment

NARGES MOHAMMADI Human-
rights-activist-and-political-prisoner

A group of women’s rights activist met with the family of Narges Mohammadi, emphasizing the rights of imprisoned women must be respected. Prison authorities are stressing on preventing the transfer of Mohammadi to a hospital for special medical treatment.