London, 4 September – Struan Stevenson is the president of the European Iraqi Freedom Association, and also served as a conservative MEP representing Scotland in the European Parliament from 1999 until his retirement in 2014. He was the president of the Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq from 2009 to 2014, as well as serving as president of the Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup. In his article for UPI on September 2, Stevenson speaks about the execution of some 30,000 political prisoners by the Iranian regime in the summer of 1988.

London, 3 September – In an interview published on the Internet August 29, Dr. Mohammad Maleki, the first President of Tehran University after the anti-monarchic revolution in Iran, he spoke about the massacre of political prisoners in 1988, and its support by the Iranian regime’s Assembly of Experts, and Mullah Pour-Mohammadi, current Justice Minister in Rouhani’s government. Dr. Maleki stated, “The government cannot maintain its power with crime, massacre and murder.”

London, 3 September – An aspiring U.S. journalist urges the international community to help end the slaughter in Iran, where the government is at war with its own citizens, using death penalty even among minors, and breaching basic human rights.

In a recent article published on the Huffington Post’s Contributor platform, Lily Stewart, an aspiring journalist, outlines the struggle between an oppressive Iranian government and the oppressed – its own citizens, suggesting that this war has been going on since the 1979 revolution.

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.