As the province’s chief prosecutor, Pour-Mohammadi was responsible for the killings of more than one thousand opposition activists in trials that often lasted no more than five minutes. Children were among victims of Pour-Mohammadi’s reign of terror in Ahwaz. Since he became Interior Minister in September 2005, he has overseen the imprisonment of thousands of Ahwazi Arab activists and the execution of scores of them. The children of dissidents, including a new-born baby, are among those currently in prison as Pour Mohammadi seeks to step up Iran’s ethnic cleansing of Ahwazi Arabs from their homeland.
German police have also accused Pour-Mohammadi of masterminding the assassination of four leaders of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan in Vienna in 1992, during peace talks with the Iranian government. Austrian politicians have also claimed that the mullahs’ president Ahmadinejad was responsible for logistical support for the assassinations. Pour-Mohammadi has also been named as one of the politicians who ordered the 1988 massacre of 30,000 members of the Iranian opposition.