{"id":21944,"date":"2017-01-14T10:10:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T10:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news1613067580\/news-sp-256\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/21944-iran-ruthless-murderer-set-to-replace-rafsanjani"},"modified":"2023-01-17T03:35:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T02:35:28","slug":"iran-ruthless-murderer-set-to-replace-rafsanjani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iran-ruthless-murderer-set-to-replace-rafsanjani\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Ruthless murderer set to replace Rafsanjani\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"StruanStevenson400\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-46364\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/StruanStevenson400.jpg\" alt=\"StruanStevenson400\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/StruanStevenson400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/StruanStevenson400-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On January 13, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/foreign-policy\/314091-iran-ruthless-murderer-set-to-replace-rafsanjani\">\u2018The Hill\u2019<\/a> published an alarming article by Struan Stevenson President of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA).former MEP and President of the Parliament\u2019s Delegation for Relations with Iraq from 2009 to 2014 , the following is the full text.<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial reports in Iran are hinting at the possible appointment of Ebrahim Raisi as the likely successor to the late Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani\u2019s position as head of the Expediency Council, a powerful body, which is intended to resolve disputes between the Iranian parliament and the Guardian Council. Rafsanjani died of a heart attack on Sunday, Jan. 8. Although relatively unknown in the West, the 56 year-old Raisi was a key member of the \u201cDeath Commission\u201d that in the summer of 1988, oversaw the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, mostly members of the opposition People\u2019s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI or MEK).<\/p>\n<p>Raisi is known to be a close ally of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, whose endorsement will be essential for him to assume this role. He has even been tipped as a possible successor to Khamenei. Raisi is currently the custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, a charity organization in charge of Iran\u2019s holiest shrine.<\/p>\n<p>If appointed as head of the Expediency Council, Raisi will be the second member of the \u2018Death Commission\u2019 to achieve a key post in the oppressive Iranian regime\u2019s ruling administration. Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, another member of the \u2018Death Commission\u2019, is today Iran\u2019s Justice Minister, appointed by the so-called \u2018moderate\u2019 President Hassan Rouhani. In his three years in office Rouhani has presided over a horrific record of arbitrary arrest, torture and execution.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3,000 people have been hanged since he took office, with over 20 executed so far this year. Hangings and floggings are often carried out in city squares and football stadiums as a warning against anyone inclined to oppose the theocratic regime.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 1988 massacre was an atrocity that must surely rank as one of the most horrific crimes against humanity of the late twentieth century. The mass executions, in jails across Iran, were carried out on the basis of a fatwa by the regime\u2019s then-Supreme Leader, the murderous Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The \u2018Death Commission\u2019, which included Ebrahim Raisi and Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, approved all the death sentences. Kangaroo courts were set up in Tehran and in cities across Iran and PMOI political prisoners were hauled in front of a Sharia judge who demanded to know if they supported the Mojahedin.<\/p>\n<p>Those who defiantly said yes were sentenced to immediate execution. These sham trials took on average two minutes. It was estimated that over 30,000 political prisoners were hanged from cranes in batches of ten, every fifteen minutes from dawn to dusk between August and December 1988.<\/p>\n<p>The truth about this horrific genocide was only revealed on\u00a0Aug. 9\u00a0last year when the son of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, the former Deputy Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic and the nominated successor to Ayatollah Khomeini, published a previously unknown audio-tape in which Montazeri acknowledged that the massacre had taken place and had been ordered at the highest levels. In the electrifying tape, Montazeri can be heard telling a meeting of the \u2018Death Commission\u2019 in 1988 that they are responsible for a crime against humanity. He says: \u201cThe greatest crime committed during the reign of the Islamic Republic, for which history will condemn us, has been committed by you. Your names will in the future be etched in the annals of history as criminals.\u201d Because of his forthright protests, the Grand Ayatollah was dismissed as the heir to the Supreme Leader by Khomeini and placed under house arrest until his death in 2009. Montazeri\u2019s son has now been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for revealing the audiotape. Pour-Mohammadi has since admitted his role in the \u2018Death Commission\u2019 and boasted that he was proud to \u201ccarry out God\u2019s will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Donald Trump enters the White House later this month, he and his new Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cannot allow this grisly crime to go unpunished, particularly when they know that the murderers are not only still alive, but in positions of power inside Iran. Ruthless killers like Raisi and Pour-Mohammadi must be held to account and indicted for crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 13, &lsquo;The Hill&rsquo; published an alarming article by Struan Stevenson President of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA).former MEP and President of the Parliament&rsquo;s Delegation for Relations with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":46364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-21944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism","8":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran: Ruthless murderer set to replace Rafsanjani\u00a0 - 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