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Iranian Resistance calls for issuance of international arrest warrant for mullahs' new President |
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Sunday, 03 July 2005 |
 A look at the past record of mullahs’ new president, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, shows that his path to power has been paved with murder,
assassination, hostage taking, suppression and torture. He has
committed crimes against humanity.
The Iranian Resistance urges competent governmental and international
authorities to issue and international arrest warrant for his arrest.
As a Revolutionary Guards member, Ahamdinejad was involved in the
torture, execution and firing coup de grace at executed prisoners in
Tehran’s notorious Evin prison and other torture centers since the
early months of the mullahs’ rule.
He was among the founders of the Muslim Students Association, renamed
the Office of Consolidation of Unity later. This office played a major
role in identifying and arresting dissident students, especially
Mojahedin sympathizers in universities. It was also very active during
the so-called “Cultural Revolution” that led to widespread purge of
students and the closure of educational institutions for a several
years.
In 1981, Ahmadinejad, along with a number of “the Line of the Imam
[Khomeini]” students, began working in the Prosecutor’s Office and in
Evin Prison, where collaborated with .Mohammad Kachui (Warden of Evin)
and Assadollah Lajevardi (Tehran Prosecutor). As a vicious torturer,
Ahamdinejad led firing squads in early 1980s and personally fired coup
de grace at executed prisoners.
In 1986, he joined the Revolutionary Guards Special Brigade based in
Ramadan Garrison, headquartered in the western Iranian city of
Kermanshah. Set up by the IRGC’s Intelligence Directorate, the Garrison
was responsible for special operations and terrorist attacks in Iraqi
territory. Ahmadinejad repeatedly took part in terrorist operations on
Iraqi soil, especially in Kirkuk. Ramadan Garrison is the main base for
the IRGC Qods [Jerusalem] force, formed several years later.
Brig. Gen. Mohammad Jafar Sahraroudi, then Ramadan Garrison’s
commander, recruited Ahmadinejad for the July 1989 assassination in
Vienna of Dr. Abdul-Rahman Qassemlou, the Secretary General of the
Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran. Sahraroudi led the operation in
which he was also wounded. Austrian authorities returned him and his
accomplices to Tehran, however.
Ahamdinejad was the commander of one of the two hit squads, the first
team being led by Sahraroudi himself. He also received the weapons and
ammunition for this operation from the Iranian embassy in Vienna, which
he provided to members of both hit-teams.
Ahmadinejad had extensive contacts with Hossein Sheikh-Attar, among
those involved in the assassination of Shapour Bakhtiar, and convicted
in absentia by a Paris court.
As Tehran’s Mayor, Ahmadinejad played an important role in facilitating
the activities of the terrorist outfit, “Headquarters to Commemorate
the Martyrs of Global Islamic Movement,” formed in 1982. The group has
in recent months waged a vigorous campaign in Tehran and other cities
to recruit volunteers for suicide operations against targets outside
Iran, especially in Iraq.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 2, 2005 |
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