She said that the mullahs’ regime had executed 120,000 political prisoners including massacre of some 30,000 in the summer of 1988, brutally tortured hundred of thousands of other political prisoners, and engaged in mass executions and other medieval punishments which must be referred to the UN Security Council for adoption of binding measures against it.
The Iranian regime faced with growing popular upheavals, in particular the alarming fuel uprising on June 25 and 26, 2007, has turned to mass executions as a last resort.
Mrs. Rajavi added that since Ahmadinejad’s ascendancy to power more than 60 political prisoners have been executed and 600 other prisoners are on death row in the notorious Gohardasht Prison in western Tehran. Thousands of workers, teachers, students and youths have been arrested and sent to detention centers where they have been subjected to indiscriminate torture. Many participants of public protests have been shot on sight by the members of the State Security Forces (SSF).
She said that the western governments by holding more dialogue and offering further incentives, in the frame work of appeasement policy vis-ÃÂ -vis the ruling mullahs who deserve to stand trial for their crimes against humanity, had emboldened the regime to prolong its suppression in Iran.
Mrs. Rajavi further added that on June 28, 2007, the EU Council made an illegal decision by not abiding the European Communities’ Court of First Instance ruling to remove the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from the list of terrorist organizations. Such breach of the law encouraged the regime in imposing more suppression and step up executions of the prisoners in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 27, 2007