NCRI – In a decree issued on Sunday, the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, named Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi as the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the State Security Forces (SSF).
Khamenei had refused to name any of Mohammad Khatami’s interior ministers as the SSF deputy commander-in-chief and had personally controlled the suppressive force during Khatami’s eight-year tenure. Sunday’s move by Khamenei reflects his complete confidence in Ahmadinejad’s cabinet and the murderous Pour-Mohammadi.
Pour-Mohammadi was a deputy minister of the Intelligence Ministry since its inception in 1984 and its representative in the three-man “Death Commission” in 1988 that was tasked with implementing Khomeini’s fatwa (religious decree) to massacre 30,000 Mojahedin and other dissident political prisoners in that year. Pour-Mohammadi was among the principals in the "chain murders" in the 1990s, in which dozens of dissidents, writers and intellectuals were abducted and brutally murdered.
Atrocities perpetrated by Pour-Mohammadi are the most manifest examples of crimes against humanity for which he must be brought before an international criminal court.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
January 3, 2006
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