London, 2 September – US General Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, writing in The Washington Times yesterday, said that the “brutality” that lay behind the Iranian regime’s 1988 execution of 30,000 was “alive and well” in a government “now portrayed as being run by moderates.”

The killings, he said, in which members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) were the primary victims, represented, “the biggest massacre of political prisoners since World War II.”

London, 1 September – A political prisoner, who lost his brothers and sister during the 1988 massacre, has written an open letter condemning the actions of the Justice Minister who served on the death committee during the period.

Reza Akbari Monfared, imprisoned in the notorious Gohardasht prison, said in the letter that his siblings were murdered by the regime but the stress and heartache took his mother’s life too.

The English edition of Asharq Al-Awsat, the most influential newspaper in the Middle East,  reported that the release of the Montazeri tape, in which Khomeini’s then heir castigates four members of the so-called “Death Committee” for the mass killings of political prisoners in 1988, has “fuelled public agitation against the regime.”

London, 31 Aug – A Welsh MP has written an op-ed on why the West must address human rights abuses in Iran.

In the piece, written for Politics Home, Mark Williams MP asserted that the UK must ‘stand with the Iranian regime’s victims in their quest for justice’.

In his editorial, the Welsh Lib Dem leader related the story of Omran Daqneesh the five-year-old Syrian boy who was recently all over Western media, covered in blood and dust, as the face of the latest air strike in the Syrian war.

London, 31 Aug – A video clip released via the internet appears to show Iranian attorney, Mohammad Najafi, addressed a group of people about the crimes taking place under the mullah’s regime.

The footage appears to show a birthday party at the home of Sattar Beheshti (a dissident blogger who was tortured and killed by regime officials in 2012), according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).