{"id":330557,"date":"2025-04-15T18:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=330557"},"modified":"2025-04-15T18:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:40:36","slug":"ayatollah-montazeris-words-expose-truth-behind-irans-1988-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-iran-resistance\/ayatollah-montazeris-words-expose-truth-behind-irans-1988-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayatollah Montazeri\u2019s Words Expose Truth Behind Iran&#8217;s 1988 Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-243863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/NCRI-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218888 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NCRI-50.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI logo\" width=\"75\" height=\"69\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Iran: Revealing More Shocking Truths About the 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners<br \/>\nFrom the Words of Ayatollah Montazeri, Then Deputy to Khomeini, Addressing the \u201cDeath Committee\u201d<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>New revelations on the genocide of Mojahedin and executions of other political groups under Khomeini&#8217;s orders<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>300 female Mojahedin detainees, including 2 French nationals, executed en masse<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>Ahmad Khomeini said 10,000 Mojahedin supporters who merely read the group&#8217;s publications must be executed<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>The concept of Velayat-e Faqih (Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist) has become disgusting to the people, who are utterly fed up<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">With the release of the audio recording of Ayatollah Montazeri\u2019s second meeting with members of the Death Committee involved in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, further shocking facts about this horrific crime have come to light (BBC \u2013 Monday night, April 14, 2025).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">In August 2016, an audio file of Montazeri\u2019s first meeting with the Death Committee on August 15, 1988, was released, exposing horrifying details of what he called \u201cthe greatest crime in the history of this regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The new recording, which is only a partial and edited excerpt of Montazeri\u2019s second meeting with the Death Committee, reveals further dimensions of the genocide against the Mojahedin (PMOI\/MEK) and executions of members of other political groups on the orders of the bloodthirsty Khomeini. It also serves as clear testimony to the steadfast Mojahedin and the legitimacy of their just and revolutionary resistance against the ominous system of Velayat-e Faqih.<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Montazeri explicitly attributes responsibility for the massacre of political prisoners to Ahmad Khomeini and the Ministry of Intelligence, recalling:\u00a0<em>\u201cYou yourself told me that all those 10,000 &#8220;Monafeqin&#8221; (a derogatory term used by the regime to refer to the PMOI) who merely read their leaflets should be executed.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>In the first meeting, Montazeri had also stated,<em>\u00a0\u201cThe Intelligence Ministry advocated and invested in this (massacre), and Ahmad Agha (Ahmad Khomeini) had been saying for three or four years that even those who read the Mojahedin&#8217;s newspapers or leaflets should be executed.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Montazeri emphasized the public\u2019s deep revulsion toward the system of Velayat-e Faqih, saying:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe Velayat-e Faqih has become utterly disgusting to the people. They are fed up with them\u2026 Even the families of those we&#8217;ve just killed are saying, \u2018So the Mojahedin were right all along.\u2019 If we had instead tried kindness, tolerance, and compassion, their numbers would\u2019ve diminished. But with this, we\u2019re only increasing them.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Referring to female Mojahedin arrested during Operation Eternal Light (Forough Javidan) in Kermanshah Province, Montazeri recounts:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cMr. Khalkhali was sitting right here. He said they brought in 300 girls, supposedly from Mersad\u2014Mersad in Bakhtaran\u2014and two of them were French. Khalkhali said, \u2018I was there. I told them to execute all of them.\u2019 I said, \u2018You might execute all of them now, but not these two\u2014they\u2019re French.\u2019 He replied, \u2018No, execute them.\u2019 I said, \u2018Have you seen how the French government and their media reacted? I even read that a committee was set up in France to look into this. That woman was captured in Mersad and\u2014boom!\u2014just like that, it was over. If we had kept those two girls, do you realize how much we could\u2019ve traded them for? With France\u2014maybe for prisoners or something.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The regime\u2019s misogynistic and animalistic hatred toward Mojahedin women is evident in another case mentioned by Montazeri:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cOne night, Eslami Shiraz brought a case file of a girl from Tehran\u2026 he brought her will. She had written to her parents not to worry, that this world is fleeting, quoting the Quran, Nahj al-Balagha, and other things. I asked: \u2018Did this girl have a history of violence or murder?\u2019 He said, \u2018No, she was just a supporter.\u2019 Her entire will radiated light\u2026 Under Islamic law, if a girl or woman doesn\u2019t believe in God, the Prophet, or the Quran, she\u2019s an apostate, but you can\u2019t kill her. This girl believed in God, the Prophet, the Quran\u2014everything. She just said: \u2018This Islamic Republic doesn\u2019t match my ideals.\u2019 Can you execute someone for that? Is this what (Islamic) jurisprudence has become?\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Even within the regime\u2019s own accepted jurisprudence, Montazeri challenges the legitimacy of executing women labeled as mohareb (enemies of God):<br \/>\n<em>\u201cI personally have doubts when it comes to executing women and girls. Ibn Idris claims that there is a consensus that a female mohareb cannot be executed. Many of these girls weren\u2019t even moharebs. A mohareb is someone who takes up arms. Most of them had just read a leaflet and ended up in prison.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\" start=\"6\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is noteworthy that Montazeri made these revelations while still serving as Khomeini\u2019s designated successor and before his dismissal. Despite his criticism, he still defended the regime in its entirety. Even in proposing solutions, he emphasized his goal was to preserve the system and Khomeini\u2019s image. Montazeri even considers the execution of 100 Mojahedin members within prisons and its public announcement to be permissible, stating:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe\u2019ve lost our reputation globally. The international community has condemned us. Families are mourning and furious. The solution was what I offered that day (referring to the first meeting with the Death Committee); those involved in prison-based activities, or had relations with them\u2014say, 100 of them\u2014could be prosecuted by Eshraghi, sentenced to death, and executed. Then we\u2019d publicly announce: \u2018These were their crimes.\u2019 But what we&#8217;ve done now doesn&#8217;t align with any religious or logical principle.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><em>Montazeri<\/em>\u00a0adds:\u00a0<em>\u201cI wanted the image of Velayat-e Faqih to remain respected, with the sanctity it had when Mr. Khomeini first returned to Iran and was a source of hope for all. Everyone adored him. We wanted him to stay that way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Thus, albeit belatedly and in fragments, the release of Montazeri\u2019s second audio recording sheds further light on the massacre of political prisoners. This heinous crime has been described by Professor Javaid Rehman, UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, in his latest report as a crime against humanity and genocide against the Mojahedin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The NCRI Committee on the Judiciary, emphasizing the necessity of prosecuting all those responsible for the massacre of political prisoners, states that neither Khomeini, nor Khamenei, nor any of the officials, instigators, or perpetrators can be absolved from the consequences of this great crime against humanity under any excuse or pretext.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Professor Rehman\u2019s report emphasizes:\u00a0<em>\u201cThe magnitude and numbers of those involved in these crimes is enormous stretching from the Supreme Leader, the Sharia\u2019s judges, the prosecutors, representative from the Ministry of Intelligence, members of the \u201cdeath commission\u201d and their facilitators; prison guards, members of the Revolutionary Guards and all those who facilitated the commission of these crimes in international law and their subsequent ongoing concealment. Many of the individuals remain in high-powered positions as of today. Those who committed crimes against humanity and other crimes in international law during the 1980s and subsequently must be held accountable and impunity must end in the Islamic Republic of Iran.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Secretariat of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/national-council-of-resistance-of-iran-ncri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Committee on the Judiciary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><strong>15 April 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran: Revealing More Shocking Truths About the 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners From the Words of Ayatollah Montazeri, Then Deputy to Khomeini, Addressing the &ldquo;Death Committee&rdquo; New revelations on the 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