NCRI – Edward Rendell, Chairman of the U.S. Democratic National Convention in July 2016 and former Governor of Pennsylvania, addressed a seminar in Paris seeking justice for the victims of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran.
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Gov. Rendell told the seminar on September 3: “What could be more galling than to hear that Iran’s current Minister of Justice was a member of the Death Commission in 1988?”
“There is so much in common between what the MEK (PMOI) have fought for and what the original American patriots fought for. … These people are standing up for an ideal,” he said.
“There is only one way that freedom will come to the people of Iran, and that’s with regime change,” Gov. Rendell added.
On the first day of the seminar of Iranian communities in Europe on Saturday, September 3, 2016, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi called on the international community and western governments to bring to justice the Iranian regime’s leaders in international tribunals for committing crime against humanity in Iran, particularly the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988.
Background:
In the summer of 1988, the Iranian regime summarily and extra-judicially executed tens of thousands of political prisoners held in jails across Iran. The massacre was carried out on the basis of a fatwa by the regime’s then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
The facts:
• More than 30,000 political prisoners were massacred in Iran in the summer of 1988.
• The massacre was carried out on the basis of a fatwa by Khomeini.
• The vast majority of the victims were activists of the opposition PMOI (MEK).
• A Death Committee approved all the death sentences.
• Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, a member of the Death Committee, is today Hassan Rouhani’s Justice Minister.
• The perpetrators of the 1988 massacre have never been brought to justice.
• On August 9, 2016, an audio tape was published for the first time of Khomeini’s former heir acknowledging that that massacre took place and had been ordered at the highest levels.
