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Two-minute read<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n A recent article in Iran\u2019s state-run newspaper Farhikhtegan<\/em> has once again exposed the clerical regime\u2019s violence-driven ideology and its policy of physically eliminating political opponents. The publication defended the mass executions of 1988<\/a>\u2014when more than 30,000 political prisoners, primarily members and supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), were slaughtered\u2014as \u201cappropriate and necessary\u201d and even as an example of \u201chigh discretion\u201d in dealing with dissent.<\/p>\n In its August 12 edition, Farhikhtegan<\/em> invoked the case of political prisoner Behrouz Ehsani Eslamlou to claim that \u201chow appropriately and with great care the execution of elements of the terrorist group of the [PMOI] in 1988 was carried out.\u201d The publication further claimed that if the political prisoners had not been executed, \u201ctoday the terror cells in the [PMOI]’s Thousand Squares project would have multiplied; history must be read from the perspective of documents.\u201d<\/p>\n The paper, affiliated with senior regime figure Ali Akbar Velayati, attacks the opposition\u2014especially the PMOI<\/a>\u2014while presenting mass executions not only as legitimate but as essential to \u201cmaintaining security.\u201d This rhetoric underscores that the 1988 massacre was not an isolated incident but part of the regime\u2019s ongoing strategy of organized repression.<\/p>\n Dr. @JavaidRehman<\/a>: \u201cThe #Iranian<\/a> regime has weaponized the death penalty to exterminate dissent. The international community failed to act in 1988. It must not fail again.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/KYKjxTGaL8<\/a><\/p>\n — NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n