Declaration:

Faced with domestic and international crises, the clerical regime has in recent weeks stepped up pressures and torture against political prisoners. The regime's henchmen had threatened that if the regime's nuclear file were referred to the Security Council, they would kill all Mojahedin political prisoners similar to the massacre of political prisoners in summer of 1988.

In 2002, the People's Mojahedin revealed the Iranian regime's secret nuclear sites for the first time and informed the international community about the danger of the ruling religious dictatorship being armed with nuclear weapons.

To this end, the Iranian regime has turned on political prisoners. On February 7, 2006, Hojjat Zamai, 31, was hanged in Gohardasht Prison near Tehran, after having disappeared for several weeks.

Zamani tolerated intense physical and psychological torture in prison for four and a half years. The regime's henchmen tried to break his resolve and coerce him into surrender. They transferred him to a ward housing dangerous criminals for a long time to put him under pressure. He went on hunger strike several times in 2004 and 2005 to protest against horrendous prison conditions.

Hojjat was the third child from the Zamani family murdered by the Iranian regime. His older brother, Khaz'al, and his other brother, Fallah, both Mojahedin members, were killed by the regime's agents in Ilam (western Iran ) in 1999 and 2001 respectively .

Political prisoners in Gohardasht Prison went on a hunger strike on February 16 as a show of protest against Mr. Zamani's execution. The Iranian regime's henchmen in the Prison are setting the stage for killing them. To this end, they have transformed them to wards with ordinary criminals, where some inmates have attacked and stabbed them.

Two of the prisoners, Valiollah Feiz-Mahdavi and Assad Shaghaghi, have released a statement announcing, "We are under extreme danger. They have told us that we will either stab ourselves to death or commit suicide by consuming hair-removing substance. We are declaring publicly that we shall in no way harm our own well-being."

After Zamani's execution, officials in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj (west of Tehran) informed Mr. Feiz-Mahdavi, 28, of his death sentence.  The written verdict, signed by Mr. Feiz-Mahdavi, affirmed that the sentence will be carried out May 16.

Among those feared to be at risk of imminent execution are:

• Saeed Masouri
• Gholamhossein Kalbi
• Valiollah Feiz Mahdavi
• Mansour Pour-Mansouri
• Khaled Hardani Farhang
• Shahram Pour Mansouri
• Alireza Karami Khairabadi

As signatories to this urgent appeal, we call the United Nations Security Council, the Secretary General, the High Commissioner of Human Rights, and all international human rights organizations to take urgent action to save the lives of Iranian political prisoners. Silence and inaction in the face of the anti-human crimes of the mullahs in Iran will only embolden them in the suppression, killing and torture of the Iranian people.

Sincerely, 
The Undersigned