Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, two high-ranking judges of the Iranian regime, were assassinated. IRNA, the official news agency of the Iranian regime, reported that the incident occurred at the office of these judges, while some other outlets stated that the attack took place in front of the Supreme Court building.
It has been reported that the assailant committed suicide after the shooting.
Iranian media state that the assailant neither had a case in the Supreme Court nor was a visitor to its branches.
Who Was Ali Razini?
Ali Razini was a prominent judicial official of the regime. After the 1979 revolution, he joined the judiciary in 1980.
In 1981, as a judge of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, he was tasked with confronting the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), the largest opposition group in Iran, in Khorasan Province.
In 1981, he became the head of the Khorasan Provincial Court and was notorious for issuing harsh sentences, including numerous death sentences for opponents.
In 1984, Ali Razini became Tehran’s prosecutor and later the head of the Armed Forces Judiciary Organization. In 1987, Ruhollah Khomeini appointed him as the Sharia judge of the Special Clergy Court, and in 1988, as the head of special courts handling war-related violations.
During Mohammad Yazdi’s second term as head of the judiciary, Razini served as Tehran’s prosecutor. Later, under Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, he became the head of the Administrative Justice Court.
Who Was Mohammad Moghiseh?
Mohammad Moghiseh was one of the controversial judges handling political and security cases in Iran.
He played a role in Iran’s judiciary from the early years following the 1979 revolution.
Some political prisoners from the 1980s claim that he served as a deputy prosecutor at Evin Prison during that period.
Moghiseh played a key role in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners at Gohardasht Prison. During the summer of 1988, the Iranian regime executed 30,000 political prisoners, most of whom were members of the MEK.
In recent years, Mohammad Moghiseh presided over Branch 28 of the Tehran Public and Revolutionary Court, where many political and security-related trials were held, earning a reputation for issuing harsh sentences.
In this position, Moghiseh issued numerous death sentences.
Throughout his life, Razini openly boasted about the crimes he committed, stating: “We had the courage to write down the reasons for every execution we carried out, signed under it, and this is a source of pride for us.”
Razini also commented on the 1980s massacres, saying: “The Imam [Khomeini] stated that if an armed group rises against the regime, all its members are considered adversaries, even those who are not in its military branch. The state began to confront them accordingly.”
