{"id":243662,"date":"2021-07-23T09:07:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=243662"},"modified":"2023-02-07T23:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T22:09:01","slug":"after-irans-sham-election-greater-recognition-of-1988-massacre-is-vital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-election\/after-irans-sham-election-greater-recognition-of-1988-massacre-is-vital\/","title":{"rendered":"After Iran\u2019s Sham Election, Greater Recognition of 1988 Massacre Is Vital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iran\u2019s June 18\u00a0sham\u00a0<\/a>presidential election brought renewed attention to the clerical regime\u2019s crime against humanity, and it underscored the urgency of as-yet-unheeded calls for its leading perpetrators to be held accountable. Among those perpetrators is the\u00a0Iranian regime\u2019s\u00a0new president-select, who will take over for the\u00a0regime\u2019s\u00a0outgoing President Hassan Rouhani in August. In 1988<\/a>, Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> was serving as deputy public prosecutor for Tehran, and in the summer of that year, he became one of the key figures on a \u201cdeath commission\u201d tasked with implementing a vicious fatwa in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That fatwa from the regime\u2019s founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, is a firmly established part of Iranian history, although Western policymakers are not universally familiar with it and regime authorities have done their level best to suppress public discourse about the ensuing massacre in the three decades since. That suppressive effort has long been challenged by Iranians\u2019 access to social media and by the role of\u00a0the\u00a0Iranian\u00a0Resistance\u00a0in spreading\u00a0factual information\u00a0through independent and underground news sources. In 2016, the regime\u2019s veil of enforced silence was lifted almost completely with the release of an audio recording from the time of the massacre, which featured Khomeini\u2019s would-be heir complaining to fellow officials about the mounting death toll.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That recording confirmed essential details that had previously been shared internationally by the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran\u00a0(PMOI\/MEK).<\/a> Among those details was the fact that the death commissions\u2019 victims included young teenagers and pregnant women, many of whom were sentenced to be hanged even though they had already concluded their legal sentences. This was made possible by Khomeini\u2019s fatwa, which declared that anyone considered to be \u201cMonafeqin,\u201d or \u201chypocrites\u201d \u2013 a derogatory term applies to the\u00a0MEK\u00a0\u2013 was guilty of \u201cwaging war on God\u201d and\u00a0was to be immediately \u201ccondemned to execution.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The fatwa even went so far as to say that it would be \u201cna\u00efve to show mercy\u201d to persons who had mounted a coordinated challenge to the theocratic dictatorship. And the bloodlust inherent in Khomeini\u2019s words only built from there, as subordinate officials including the\u00a0aforementioned heir-apparent, Hossein Ali Montazeri, wrote to him questioning the implementation of his religious edict and suggesting that its effects would ultimately prove detrimental to the regime\u2019s public profile both at home and abroad.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In one early communication, Chief Justice Moussavi Aredebili asked for clarification about how the executions should be meted out, specifically asking whether MEK supporters who were already in the process of serving lesser sentences should really be subjected to capital punishment. Khomeini unequivocally answered in the affirmative, stating that if any person \u201cat any stage or at any time maintains the support of the MEK, the sentence is execution.\u201d He followed this up by ordering the judiciary the \u201cannihilate the enemies of Islam immediately\u201d and use whatever procedures and criteria \u201cspeed up implementation of the verdict.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The consequences of these orders were outlined in multiple letters from Montazeri, as well as from at least one Sharia judge who was directly involved in the operation of a death commission in Khuzestan, who objected to other members\u2019 insistence that when prisoners expressed hesitance to\u00a0fight on the frontlines of the war with Iraq, it signaled that they were \u201cholding onto their beliefs\u201d and thus continuing to work\u00a0against the theocratic system.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These tribunals collectively oversaw the hanging or death by firing squad of over 30,000 individuals, the vast majority of them being members of the MEK. The regime has, of course, never acknowledged this statistic and has repeatedly made efforts to cover up the extent of the killing, by paving over the mass graves in which most of the victims were secretly interred.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, a group of United Nations human rights experts<\/a> wrote a letter to\u00a0the regime\u00a0authorities demanding an end to this practice and to the broader practice of covering up the massacre\u2019s legacy by criminalizing public discourse and threatening survivors and victims\u2019 families. The letter was delivered to Tehran in September and urged the release of all relevant information about the death commissions and the outcome of their actions. It was then published for an international audience in December after it became abundantly clear that the regime had no intention of responding or taking international complaints seriously.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This message was very strongly reinforced in June when the Iranian regime\u2019s sham election led to Ebrahim Raisi being confirmed as the country\u2019s next president. His virtually uncontested campaign for election was met by extensive protests which condemned him as the \u201chenchman of 1988\u201d and set the stage for a massive electoral boycott on June 18. The regime acknowledges that fewer than half of eligible voters took part in the election, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, revealed that the actual participation rate was less than ten percent.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The election turnout was certainly the lowest in the history of the Iranian regime\u2019s sham presidential elections, and it reflected both the lingering wounds of the 1988 massacre and the growing public support for the group that Khomeini tried, unsuccessfully, to destroy with his fatwa. The electoral boycott is only one of several recent examples of that growth. In January 2018 and November 2019, Iran underwent two virtually unprecedented nationwide uprisings, both of which featured slogans popularized by the MEK and demonstrated broad support for its platform of regime change.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The second of these uprisings<\/a> encompassed nearly 200 cities and towns and provoked such panic from regime authorities that they immediately opened fire on crowds of protesters, then began a campaign to systematically torture those who were arrested in its midst. The initial shooting incidents accounted for approximately 1,500 fatalities, and the impact of the torture and subsequent prosecutions has yet to be definitively assessed. Whatever the case may be, Raisi\u2019s \u201celection\u201d points to the threat of further reprisals from a regime that continues to stand by the shamelessly brutal strategies ordered by its founder in 1988.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The international community must take steps to prevent such escalation. This is\u00a0all the more\u00a0imperative\u00a0in light of\u00a0its prior failure to\u00a0take action\u00a0over the 1988 massacre, either while it was still ongoing or in the three decades since. In their letter last September, the UN human rights experts noted that this failure\u00a0\u201chad a devastating impact on the survivors and families\u201d of the massacre, and \u201cemboldened Iran\u2026 to maintain a strategy of deflection and denial that continue to date.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tehran\u2019s decision to ignore that letter underscores the need for the UN and its leading member states to take measures that lead to accountability for the regime as a whole and especially for those participants in the 1988 massacre who occupy the topmost leadership positions today.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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