A 30 November report of the representative in Europe of the Fedayeen Majority  denounces the “extensive massacre, resembling only those seen in Nazi death camps”. “The massacre of political prisoners has taken place in the prisons of Tehran, Isfahan, Kerman, Khoram Abad, Gilan, Mazandaran, Hamendan, Gachsaran, Oromieh, Tabriz” and other cities. “Three hundred political prisoners have been buried in two mass graves in Khaavaraan cemetery (in East Tehran)…. In addition to daily execution of groups of political prisoners in Evin, a large number of them were murdered in a deliberate explosion and destruction of an auditorium where they had been assembled.”

And a 21 September 1988 statement of the Kurdistan Organisation of the Communist Party of Iran (Komala) said of the criminal mass executions of the “Islamic Republic”: “These turbaned dictators are looking for victory in the city streets and in prison cells to make up for their defeat in the war fronts of Iran and Iraq. They are trying desperately to extend their onerous life through terror and intimidation by setting up execution squads.” Continue reading →