Two-minute read On August 21, 2025, in a deeply troubling front-page opinion piece in Etemad titled “Khavaran: A Challenge That Must Be Overcome,” Emadeddin Baghi—a former regime insider and columnist at the Kayhan daily—reshapes the narrative of the 1988 mass executions in Iran. Baghi grotesquely reframes the planned and premeditated mass executions of political prisoners … Continue reading Iran News: Commentary Seeks to Whitewash 1988 Massacre, Shield Khamenei’s Role