{"id":251616,"date":"2021-11-29T15:17:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=251616"},"modified":"2023-02-02T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:11:15","slug":"letter-of-world-athletes-to-the-unsg-regarding-the-massacre-of-iranian-athletes-in-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/letter-of-world-athletes-to-the-unsg-regarding-the-massacre-of-iranian-athletes-in-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter of World Athletes to the UNSG Regarding the Massacre of Iranian Athletes in 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Letter-of-World-Athletes-to-the-UNSG-Regarding-the-Massacre-of-Iranian-Athletes-in-1988\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-251617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Letter-of-World-Athletes-to-the-UNSG-Regarding-the-Massacre-of-Iranian-Athletes-in-1988.jpg\" alt=\"Letter-of-World-Athletes-to-the-UNSG-Regarding-the-Massacre-of-Iranian-Athletes-in-1988\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Letter-of-World-Athletes-to-the-UNSG-Regarding-the-Massacre-of-Iranian-Athletes-in-1988.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Letter-of-World-Athletes-to-the-UNSG-Regarding-the-Massacre-of-Iranian-Athletes-in-1988-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Letter-of-World-Athletes-to-the-UNSG-Regarding-the-Massacre-of-Iranian-Athletes-in-1988-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Letter-of-World-Athletes-to-the-UNSG-Regarding-the-Massacre-of-Iranian-Athletes-in-1988-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Letter-of-World-Athletes-to-the-UNSG-Regarding-the-Massacre-of-Iranian-Athletes-in-1988-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><b>In a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General, more than 100 Iranian athletes, including world champions, participants in the Olympics, and national teams in football, wrestling, karate, judo, kung fu, taekwondo, gymnastics, sailing, weightlifting Basketball, marathon, athletics, boxing, volleyball, fencing, shooting, tennis and ping pong, drew his attention to the massacre of over <\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/a-political-analysis-of-irans-1988-massacre\/\" rel=\"noopener\">30,000 political prisoners<\/a><b> in 1988. In their letter, they underlined how the regime targeted Iranian athletes.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><strong>\u201cSilence and inaction in the face of genocide and crimes against humanity that took place at the end of the twentieth century is an encouragement to continue and intensify the crime,\u201d their letter reads, pointing to the systematic impunity in Iran and calls for an international inquiry into the 1988 massacre. Below is the full text of their letter:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Your Excellency Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thirty-three years ago, in the summer of 1988, some 30,000 political prisoners were executed throughout Iran within a few weeks following brief interrogations that last a few minutes by 3-4-member commissions known as \u201cDeath Commissions\u201d. This was pursuant to a fatwa by Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the ruling theocracy in Iran, who had hijacked the Iranian people&#8217;s revolution against the monarchy for democracy and freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Many of the prisoners had served their sentences or were kept imprisoned after their sentences had finished, but Khomeini wrote in his fatwa with unparalleled cruelty: All prisoners who remained loyal to the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/about-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-of-iran-pmoi-mek\/\" rel=\"noopener\">(PMOI\/MEK),<\/a> regardless of the stage of their imprisonment had to be executed. More than 90% of the victims of the 1988 massacre were members or supporters of the MEK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Among the victims of this massacre were a number of athletes and members of Iran\u2019s national teams. Forouzan Abdi, a member of the Iranian women&#8217;s national volleyball team, was one such victim who was executed after seven years in captivity. Among the 120,000 victims of political executions in the last 40 years, there were a number of sports champions, including Habib Khabiri, the captain of the Iranian national soccer team, and Navid Afkari, the wrestling champion, who were executed in 1984 and 2020 respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thirty-three years after the crime against humanity, which jurists consider as a genocide, most of the masterminds and perpetrators of this great crime still enjoy impunity and hold the most senior positions in the regime and continue to carry out executions. The killing of more than 1,500 protesters during the November 2019 uprising was carried out on the orders of the very same individuals who carried out the 1988 massacre. Ebrahim Raisi, the new president of the regime, was one of the key members of the Tehran Death Commission, who also has a dark record of execution and repression before and after the massacre. One of the henchmen involved in the 1988 massacre was arrested in Sweden in 2019, and his trial began in Stockholm in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Various human rights bodies, including Amnesty International, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and prominent international human rights experts have stressed the need to hold <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/who-is-ebrahim-raisi-ncr-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> accountable for the 1988 massacre. Amnesty International\u2019s secretary general said: &#8220;That Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency instead of being investigated for the crimes against humanity of murder, enforced disappearance and torture, is a grim reminder that impunity reigns supreme in Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Silence and inaction in the face of genocide and crimes against humanity that took place at the end of the twentieth century is an encouragement to continue and intensify the crime. It is time for the UN Security Council, the Human Rights Council and other relevant UN bodies to take action. We call on the United Nations to immediately begin its investigation into the 1988 massacre, undoubtedly the largest political massacre since World War II, and to refer the case to the UN Security Council for holding its masterminds and perpetrators, including Raisi and Ali Khamenei to account and to put them on trial. Attached is a copy of the book \u201cCrime Against Humanity\u201d, which contains names and details of 5,015 of the people who were executed in 1988.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">CC: Member states of the United Nations Security Council EU leaders<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President, Vice President, and Secretary of State of the United States<\/p>\n<h3>The signatories of the letter to the UN Secretary-General:<\/h3>\n<p>Soolmaz Abooali, world champion in karate<br \/>\nAngelica Parvardeh, European Gymnastics runner-up from Sweden<br \/>\nMohammad Ghorbani, winner of the world wrestling gold medal<br \/>\nMoslem Eskandar Filabi, wrestling champion of Iran and Asia \u2013 winner of 17 medals in international competitions<br \/>\nHassan Naeb Agha, a member of the Iranian national soccer team in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina<br \/>\nBahram Movadat, member of the Iranian national soccer team in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina<br \/>\nAsghar Adibi, member of the Iranian national soccer team<br \/>\nManouchehr Arastopour, rowing champion of Iran and Sweden<br \/>\nAbbas Novin Roozgar, member of the Iranian national soccer team<br \/>\nEdwin Tehrani, won the gold medal in weightlifting in Sweden<br \/>\nArdeshir Asghari, world wrestling champion<br \/>\nAfshin Shahverdi, world judo champion<br \/>\nReza Tahouni, Thai boxing world champion<br \/>\nMaral Abooali, winner of silver medal in women\u2019s karate in the world<br \/>\nFiroozeh Ojaq, a member of the Iranian national basketball team<br \/>\nNaser Gholi Ardalan, kung fu champion \u2013 Italy<br \/>\nKazem Gholami, Iranian national wrestler<br \/>\nMehdi Ghazal, member of the Iranian national soccer team<br \/>\nAmir Hossein Eghbali, a player in the first division of Belgian basketball clubs<br \/>\nIraj Derakhshan Marathon Runner<br \/>\nHaji Mohammad Azadan, member of Iran youth national soccer team<br \/>\nHassan Heidari, Asian Youth Weightlifting Champion, member and coach of the Dutch weightlifting team<br \/>\nDariush Abdul Maleki, Danish Judo Champion<br \/>\nSaeed Ipakchi, Iranian track and field champion<br \/>\nAli Rahimi, wrestling champion in Norway<br \/>\nAli Sajjadi, member of Iran youth national soccer team<br \/>\nGlayel Parvardeh, Gymnist \u2013 Sweden<br \/>\nMajid Moshtari, member of Iran youth national soccer team<br \/>\nMohammad Reza Yousefali, member of Iran youth national soccer team<br \/>\nNeda Amani, soccer goalkeeper and coach of Swiss women\u2019s soccer clubs<br \/>\nFarrokh Farrokhyar, volleyball<br \/>\nAli Zahedi, Soccer<br \/>\nNima Afshari, Ping pong<br \/>\nBahram Khatib-Shahidi, Soccer<br \/>\nSohrab Shirali, Wrestler ,referee and Coach of Wrestling<br \/>\nFarzad, soccer<br \/>\nAlireza-Sirousi, Referee &amp; judge Boxing<br \/>\nFred Parsay, soccer<br \/>\nAhmad Moeinimanesh, Basketball<br \/>\nAbbas Ameri, Chess<br \/>\nAli Asghar Vandaie, Chess, Soccer<br \/>\nMehran Ebrahimi, Kung Fu<br \/>\nMohammadreza Alizadeh, Soccer<br \/>\nToraj shahabi, Soccer<br \/>\nBabak Dadvand, Marathon Runner<br \/>\nGholamhossein Bahadoor, wrestling<br \/>\nHassan Rezai, Soccer<br \/>\nKhalil Khani, Wrestling, Track &amp; Field<br \/>\nMohammad Sadeghpour, Soccer<br \/>\nMasoud Sadeghpour, Wrestling<br \/>\nMirtaher Hassanyn, Volleyboll- Ping Pong<br \/>\nBehrouz m, Soccer<br \/>\nOmid, Taekwondo<br \/>\nNasser Abkari, Shooting<br \/>\nMosayyeb jalali, Wrestling<br \/>\nGlayol, Soccer<br \/>\nSadollah Falahati, Wrestling<br \/>\nGolpar Parvardeh, Gymnastics<br \/>\nGabriel Richards, Boxing<br \/>\nS Zanjani, Aikido, soccer<br \/>\nKhosrow Parvardeh, Soccer<br \/>\nMohammad Darafarin, soccer<br \/>\nAydin Arjang, Soccer<br \/>\nMarjam Parvardeh, Basketball<br \/>\nHossein Yarandpour, Soccer<br \/>\nShahram Homayounfar, soccer<br \/>\nYousef Mahdavi, Soccer<br \/>\nRoxana Sadeghpour, Soccer<br \/>\nSamir Ghanai, Soccer &amp; Karate<br \/>\nRobin Tehrani, Soccer<br \/>\nBehrang sarkhosh, Kyokushinkai<br \/>\nBehzad Allahyari, Weightlifting<br \/>\nKarim Akbari, weightlifting<br \/>\nSiamak, Soccer<br \/>\nMohammad Behrouzi, Soccer Referee<br \/>\nTouraj Mohammadi, Voetbal<br \/>\nOmid Hatamian, wrestling<br \/>\nHossein Fadakar, Soccer<br \/>\nBen Janloo, soccer<br \/>\nSivan Barzegar, Taekwondo<br \/>\nIsmail Pashapour Fencing<br \/>\nIsmail Mohaddes, soccer<br \/>\nReza Mohammadi, soccer<br \/>\nKhosrow Alikhani, soccer<br \/>\nJamshid Heydari, soccer<br \/>\nBahman Abedini Taekwondo<br \/>\nMajid Rahimi Taekwondo<br \/>\nMasoud Ipekchi Athletics<br \/>\nMajid is a football customer<br \/>\nJamshid Azari, soccer<br \/>\nAsghar Saadi, boxing<br \/>\nElias Khademi, soccer<br \/>\nChristopher Kulp, Cross Fit; Olympic Weightlifting<br \/>\nJack Iacovangelo, Gymnastics<br \/>\nAlex, Weightlifting<br \/>\nHenrik Fjeldheim, Soccer<br \/>\nSteve Parkinson, Judo<br \/>\nMike Caveney, Judo<br \/>\nWilliam Svensson, Gymnastics<br \/>\nMadeleine Danielsson, Soccer<br \/>\nSelina, Gymnastics<br \/>\nMaria Alkhouri, 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