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\u0670\u0670This week, the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a> uploaded a series of videos<\/a> to its official website featuring eyewitness testimony from persons who had been in prison in Iran during the 1988 massacre<\/a> of political detainees. For many years, the NCRI has effectively led a campaign for justice on behalf of the massacre\u2019s victims, who are estimated to number over 30,000. But that campaign has taken on a new sense of urgency and timeliness in recent weeks, as Tehran carried out the transition to a new presidential administration, led by one of the massacre\u2019s leading perpetrators.
\nMany of the individuals featured in the NCRI\u2019s videos specifically recalled seeing Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> during the interrogations and sham trials that determined who was to be executed between July and September of 1988. Some of those who had been imprisoned in Tehran during the months and years leading up to the massacre also recalled Raisi\u2019s presence in political wards that were subject to his jurisdiction as the deputy prosecutor.
\nThese witnesses provided testimony not just about the 1988 massacre but also about years-long periods of detention following arrest for the \u201ccrime\u201d of supporting the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>. Today, the MEK<\/a> is the lead constituent group of the NCRI coalition, and it remains a prime target of Tehran\u2019s domestic repression, foreign terrorism, and propaganda. The overwhelming majority of the victims of the 1988 massacre were supporters of MEK.\u00a0 Any prisoner who refused to disavow the MEK and persisted in being a supporter or member of the MEK were send to the gallows.<\/p>\n

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In one of the video testimonials, Hossein Farsi<\/a> explained that that word alone had been the source of a sharp increase in tensions between inmates and prison authorities, with the latter attempting to violently suppress references to the MEK while enforcing the regime\u2019s violent alternative descriptions of dissidents as \u201cMonafeqin,\u201d or \u201chypocrites.\u201d According to Farsi, from 1986 onward, prisoners were barred from identifying themselves as Mojahedin and were harshly punished for doing so. \u201cThey tortured anyone who used the word,\u201d he said before going on to explain that this was only the beginning of a dawning realization among prisoners about the fate that awaited man of them.
\nDifferent eyewitnesses provide different accounts of when they and their fellow prisoners became aware of the massacre, or the underlying plans. Regime authorities made a concerted effort to conceal the early waves of executions by carrying them out immediately after transferring prisoners from one facility to another, thereby making it difficult for individual victims to be accounted for. This difficulty was compounded by the fact that most of those victims were buried in secret mass graves and were executed after having been cut off from contact with families and the outside world for weeks prior to the massacre.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Of course, this and other changes to the prison environment made many of the prisoners aware of the fact that something unusual was happening, though not all of them recognized the changes as targeting the MEK, much less targeting it with the intention of wiping out its members.<\/p>\n

Akbar Samadi<\/a> recalled being taken before the \u201cDeath Committee<\/a>\u201d that oversaw the 1988 massacre, though he was told at the time that it was a \u201cPardoning Committee.\u201d After being briefly stood before a panel consisting of Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> and three other individuals, Samadi spoke to another prisoner and said, \u201cIf I were to guess, I\u2019d say that they are either going to execute us all or free us all.\u201dOthers, however, were seemingly aware of the regime\u2019s plans for mass execution not only while they were ongoing, but months in advance. In another of the NCRI\u2019s videos, Mahmoud Royaei<\/a> recalled that a fellow prisoner by the name of Parviz Mojahed Nia encountered his family during a transfer on March 21. \u201cThe family asked \u2018where are they taking you?\u2019 and he told them that they were taking us all to be executed because they had said \u2018we are going to seal your fate soon\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Royaei and Mojahed Nia both recognized something that not all of the massacre\u2019s victims were able to see at such an early stage: that the transfers and lockdowns which preceded the massacre were evidently designed to sort political prisoners according to their prior affiliations, thereby making it easier to focus attention on the MEK and execute its members at a rate of hundreds per day. This quickly resulted in chilling scenes like that described by Parvin Pouregbal<\/a>, who was detained in the women\u2019s section of Evin Prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time\u2026 there were 3 halls,\u201d she said. \u201cIn hall number one, on the floor below, all of the women were executed. No survivors. In hall number three, which was the ward above us, all of the MEK members were executed. A number of non-religious prisoners survived. In our ward\u2026 each room contained 25-30 people. Two of them were completely emptied.\u201d
\nPouregbal\u2019s survival seems miraculous.
\nMany of the victims\u2019 families were never given official notice of their deaths, and many remain uncertain about their loved ones\u2019 final resting place. The MEK has worked tirelessly to identify the sites of mass graves in at least 36 cities across Iran, but regime authorities have countered that effort with attempts to cover up the history of the massacre by approving construction projects on the same sites and by intimidating victims\u2019 families so as to maintain a veil of relative silence over the issue.
\nThat veil has gradually slipped in recent years, especially following the leak of an audio recording from the time of the massacre in which the regime\u2019s lone dissenter condemned his colleagues for the \u201cworst crime of the Islamic Republic.\u201d Yet even this failed to spark the sort of international investigation that the NCRI has been demanding for so many years. Accordingly, many International Human Rights organizations have accused leading world powers and the United Nations of reinforcing a sense of impunity among Iranian authorities which emboldened them to put forward Ebrahim Raisi as the country\u2019s next president even as Iranian activists publicly labeled him the \u201chenchman of 1988.\u201d<\/p>\n

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