NCRI – Seyed Hamid Rohani, a cleric confidant of the regime’s founder and its current leader has warned that if a repeat of the 1988 massacre “and a firm and revolutionary approach” does not take place with regards to the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people, “the problems will persist.”
In 1988, on the basis of a religious decree by the clerical regime’s founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, and affirmation of the current regime leaders, including Ali Khamenei, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Mohammad Khatami, thousands of political prisoners were executed in the span of several weeks. Many had already finished their imprisonment sentences.
International rights groups declared that the infamous “1988 massacre” took the lives of thousands of people. Many of those executed, totaling up to 30,000 people, were members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). They have been buried in mass graves.
Seyed Hamid Rohani demanded in an interview with “Sepidar,” the organ of the so-called “Bassij Organization of University of Tehran Students,” the massacre of political prisoners detained during recent anti-regime protests.
He referred to the 1988 killings and warned, “if a firm, serious and revolutionary approach is not adopted regarding the recent sedition, this problems will persist.”
Rohani’s remarks about the mass killings of political prisoners in 1988 were unprecedented. He said, “The imprisoned PMOI members tactically repented. After the acceptance of the ceasefire [of the Iran-Iraq war by the regime in 1988] … these prisoners revolted and started to set fire to prisons.”
These remarks, which were made for the first time 22 years after the massacre of political prisoners, are inconsistent with the thousands of reports published thus far by various sources.
In early 1988, Khomeini asked him to write the "history" of “Islamic Revolution.” Three month later khomeini died. Rohani drafted and published a voluminous Khomeini biography in three volumes.
He was later appointed as chair of the Islamic Revolution Archives Organization, which is an official regime organ. Shortly thereafter, Rohani’s conflict with a cleric and supporter of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, current mullahs’ President, prompted his resignation. He later founded the “Foundation for Iranian Contemporary History.”
