{"id":330564,"date":"2025-04-16T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=330564"},"modified":"2025-04-16T20:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T19:22:52","slug":"montazeris-second-tape-exposes-the-1988-massacres-rot-at-the-core-of-irans-theocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/montazeris-second-tape-exposes-the-1988-massacres-rot-at-the-core-of-irans-theocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Montazeri\u2019s Second Tape Exposes the 1988 Massacre\u2019s Rot at the Core of Iran\u2019s Theocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-253555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/iran-massacre-1988.jpg\" alt=\"iran-massacre-1988\" width=\"1000\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/iran-massacre-1988.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/iran-massacre-1988-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/iran-massacre-1988-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/iran-massacre-1988-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/iran-massacre-1988-696x393.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Three-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the release of a second audio file from a historic meeting between Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri and members of the so-called \u201cDeath Committee\u201d responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/the-hierarchy-of-the-iran-1988-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 1988 massacre<\/a>, Iran\u2019s clerical regime once again stands exposed by its own senior ranks. This damning session, held on December 30, 1988, just three months before Montazeri\u2019s ousting as heir to Khomeini, offers chilling insights into the regime\u2019s crimes\u2014especially its obsession with annihilating the <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a> (PMOI\/MEK)\u2014and reveals a culture of cruelty that even some insiders could no longer stomach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Montazeri bluntly declared that the system of <em>Velayat-e Faqih<\/em> (absolute clerical rule) had become \u201cdisgusting\u201d in the eyes of the people. &#8220;People are fed up with this system,&#8221; he told Hossein-Ali Nayeri, <a href=\"https:\/\/iran1988.org\/morteza-eshraqi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morteza Eshraqi<\/a>, and Ebrahim Raisi, the three judiciary officials who formed the core of the \u201cDeath Committee.\u201d These were the men handing down mass death sentences, often within minutes, and always without due process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PMOI was the regime\u2019s main fear. Their refusal to renounce their beliefs, even after years of imprisonment, terrified the theocracy. As Montazeri revealed, Khomeini&#8217;s infamous fatwa did not hinge on any criminal acts\u2014it ordered death for any prisoner who remained loyal to the PMOI\u2019s ideals. \u201cYou executed people who merely held beliefs,\u201d Montazeri said. \u201cSome of these were people whose sentences had been reduced, who had received pardons with Khomeini\u2019s own signature\u2014and yet you killed them anyway.\u201d The killing was ideological, not judicial. It was about submission or death.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steadfast: The Word That Decided Life and Death in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1988Massacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#1988Massacre<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6PMIEq9Wgj\">https:\/\/t.co\/6PMIEq9Wgj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1817600552609464428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the most damning revelations in this second tape is that there was a second fatwa\u2014previously unknown\u2014issued by Khomeini, this time targeting leftist and Marxist prisoners. According to Montazeri, Nayeri himself had written to Khomeini asking what to do with the communists. The answer: exterminate them, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nayeri, the so-called &#8220;Sharia judge,&#8221; played a central role in this legal theater of blood. He not only conducted the rapid-fire interrogations but also helped expand the scope of the killings. Montazeri confronted him: \u201cYou took people whose sentences had already been reduced\u2014some from fifteen years to five\u2014and executed them without them doing anything new.\u201d The regime was playing with lives, not administering justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The clerical authorities particularly pushed<a href=\"https:\/\/iran1988.org\/1988-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> female PMOI members<\/a> to recant, as Montazeri recounted a harrowing case involving two young French women captured during a military assault by the PMOI forces inside Iran. \u201cI told them, at least spare these two French girls,\u201d said Montazeri, quoting Ayatollah Khalkhali\u2019s refusal: \u201cNo, all must be executed.\u201d He later mentioned a young woman whose farewell letter shone with faith in God and the Quran\u2014yet she was executed merely for believing the Islamic Republic had betrayed her hopes. \u201cShe had no part in violence, not even in planning. And yet you killed her.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s Ruling Clerics Descend into Hysteria as Fear of Collapse Grows<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QDmQRIOSAn\">https:\/\/t.co\/QDmQRIOSAn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1892992682831814884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This state-driven execution campaign was not merely about silencing voices; it was about rewriting the social conscience. Montazeri lamented that the regime\u2019s cruelty had backfired: \u201cNow even those families who once believed in Khomeini and the revolution are questioning everything. You have made the <em>Velayat Faqih<\/em> repulsive.\u201d He added, \u201cWe didn\u2019t just kill people; we made<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/article\/justice-for-the-victims-of-irans-1988-massacre-echoes-around-the-globe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the PMOI more popular.<\/a> You revived them through this brutality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was explicit about those responsible: \u201cI put the blame entirely on the Intelligence Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/how-the-iran-1988-massacre-started\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and Ahmad Khomeini<\/a>.\u201d He recounted how Khomeini\u2019s son had told him, \u201cWe need to execute all 10,000 of those Mojahedin supporters who only read their statements.\u201d That horrifying number referred to people who had committed no crime but remained ideologically loyal\u2014by reading, not fighting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> News: Regime Cleric Struggles to Justify <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1988Massacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#1988Massacre<\/a> Amid Growing Public Scrutiny<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hp32ZNgETp\">https:\/\/t.co\/Hp32ZNgETp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1912101190298443933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second Montazeri tape shows that even within the upper echelons of the regime, this crime caused revulsion. It damaged Khomeini\u2019s image beyond repair, especially among those who once saw him as a symbol of justice. \u201cWe wanted his legacy to remain sacred,\u201d Montazeri said. \u201cInstead, you made <em>Velayat-e Faqih<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iranian-regime-infighting\/irans-ruling-clerics-descend-into-hysteria-as-fear-of-collapse-grows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">synonymous with horror<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the end, the second tape is not just a document of past crimes. It\u2019s a mirror, held up by one of the regime\u2019s own architects, showing a theocracy terrified of ideas, desperate for submission, and willing to kill en masse to avoid its own collapse. But it failed. Because the victims\u2014especially those who stood by their beliefs to the very end\u2014became more than statistics. 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