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).
London, 31 Aug – “Why is Iran trying to assassinate Saudi Ambassadors?”; that is the question posed to the world in an op-ed on Al Arabiya by a high-ranking journalist in the middle east.
Turki Aldakhil, the General Manager of Al Arabiya News Channel wrote about the recently revealed plots to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awad Assiri and the Saudi ambassador to Iraq Thamer al-Sabhan, and why this is not an uncommon action for Iran.
London, 30 Aug – In her August 29th statement, President-elect Maryam Rajavi of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), described a statement that was recently issued by the Assembly of Experts, about the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, as an “explicit, decisive and official document” calling it “agreement and complicity” among of the current regime’s leaders, for their part in the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners.
London, 30 Aug – According to an August 30 article from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Tasnim news agency, affiliated to the IRGC Qods Force, wrote on August 28 that Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, a member of Khomeini’s “Death Commission” and current Minister of Justice in Rouhani’s government, admitted to his role in the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners and members of the MEK in the summer of 1988. He said he was proud of it.
London, 30 Aug – An article in Media Express posted by Craig Davidson, describes a solemn event that took place on August 23rd and 24th, when people came to view the exhibition in the Mayor’s office Paris’ 2nd district.
A remembrance of the 28th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of 30,000 members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI), the largest single Iranian resistance group, was on display. Portraits of the victims, listing their name, age, and and occupation (many were university students), made a poignant statement on their own. Memorabilia, such as their possessions were included int the exhibit, evoking the personal lives and character of the slain dissidents. News articles from 1988, as well as later revelations about the extent of the killings were also on view.
London, 29 Aug – Members of the Swedish-Iranian community and supporters of the Iranian Resistance gathered in Stockholm on Saturday to protest the rising level of executions in Iran.
London, 29 Aug – One month after a campaign was launched to seek justice for the political prisoners murdered in the 1988 Iranian massacre and two weeks after an audio recording was released which showed the guilt of the Iranian leaders, current supreme leader Ali Khamenei and chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani have finally broken their silence.
London, 29 Aug – Iran’s totalitarian mullah’s regime executed 30 people, over this past weekend, despite international calls for a halt to the executions.
On Saturday, August 27, 12 prisoners were hanged in the Central Prison of Karaj. They had been transferred to solitary confinement on Wednesday, August 24.
London, 28 Aug -The Hill.com, top US political website, read by the White House and lawmakers, in an article by Hamid Yazdan Panah an Iranian-American human rights activist and attorney, after recounting the recent events after the revelation of an audiotape concerning the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran , calls UN to investigate this massacre, the following is the text of the article.
London, 27 Aug – The National, a British online news site, reported today on the Iranian regime’s 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, mostly members of the People’s Mujahidin Organisation of Iran (PMOI or MEK), saying “the row continued in the country.”
Reporting that a 1988 tape had emerged in which Khomeini’s then heir-apparent, Hossein-Ali Montazeri, can be heard telling members of the “Death Committee” that history would judge them as “criminals” for the killings, the National discussed its impact upon Iranian society.
