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By: Struan Stevenson<\/strong><\/p>\n Thirty-two years ago this month, a crime against humanity began in Iran<\/a>. In a tempest of savagery that has not been surpassed since the end of the Second World War, the fascist theocracy began the systematic execution of political prisoners<\/a>. Within months they had hanged over 30,000 men and women, mostly members and supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin of Iran<\/a> PMOI\/MEK<\/a>, the main democratic opposition to the mullahs. They were murdered on the orders of the psychotic Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a man who claimed to be the voice of God on earth but was in fact the disciple of Satan.<\/p>\n Khomeini instructed<\/a> that the executions should be carried out in haste and that even pregnant women should not be spared. The show trials lasted for no more than 3 minutes and consisted of the prisoners being asked the question \u201cDo you support the PMOI\/MEK<\/a>?\u201d If they answered \u201cYES\u2019 they were marched out to the prison courtyard and hanged in batches of six. Young men and women who had been released from prison after serving sentences for supporting the PMOI\/MEK were dragged back before the summary courts, sentenced to death and hanged. The bodies of the 30,000 murdered martyrs were buried in secret graves. Their families were forbidden from speaking about their deaths.<\/p>\n Monstrous acts of butchery like this have become grisly milestones in the history of oppression and tyranny in contemporary Iran and even the death of Khomeini brought no respite. His successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has presided over a regime that now executes more people per capita than any other country in the world. Iran has become, in the words of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Godfather of terror, an international sponsor of terrorism. They brutally shot down and killed over 1,500 young protesters who took to the streets of Iran\u2019s towns and cities in a nationwide uprising last November. Deploying their Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) \u2013 the regime\u2019s Gestapo, the mullahs have unleashed a homicidal blitz on their own population, crushing dissent, wantonly murdering and maiming thousands.<\/p>\n THREAD\n
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\nHistory repeated itself
\nHolocaust in #Iran<\/a>
\n#1988Massacre<\/a> of more than 30,000 political prisoners in Iran in a matter of few months.
\n32 years later, the perpetrators have not yet been held accountable and brought to justice! pic.twitter.com\/8oso1g4u8O<\/a><\/p>\n
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Struan Stevenson is the Coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change (CiC). He was a member of the European Parliament representing Scotland (1999-2014), president of the Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14) and chairman of the Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup (2004-14). He is an international lecturer on the Middle East and is also president of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA)<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\"](\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100.png\" "\\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\\""){kind=logo}
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