I see Iran has a nice new leader in Ebrahim Raisi. From his wiki entry
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Hussein-Ali Montazeri named Raisi as one of the four persons involved in the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners.
[28] Other persons were Morteza Eshraghi (Prosecutor of Tehran), Hossein-Ali Nayeri (Judge) and
Mostafa Pourmohammadi (
MOI representative in
Evin). Names of first two persons are mentioned in Khomeini's order. Pourmohammadi has denied his role but Raisi has not commented publicly on the matter yet.
[29][30]
The 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners was a series of state-sponsored execution of political prisoners across Iran, starting on 19 July 1988 and lasting for approximately five months.
[31][32][33][34][35][36] The majority of those killed were supporters of the
People's Mujahedin of Iran, although supporters of other leftist factions, including the
Fedaian and the
Tudeh Party of Iran (Communist Party), were executed as well.
[37][38] According to
Amnesty International, "thousands of political dissidents were systematically subjected to enforced disappearance in Iranian detention facilities across the country and extrajudicially executed pursuant to an order issued by the Supreme Leader of Iran and implemented across prisons in the country. Many of those killed during this time were subjected to torture and other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the process."
[39]
The killings have been described as a political purge without precedent in modern Iranian history, both in terms of scope and coverup.
[40] However, the exact number of prisoners executed remains a point of contention. Amnesty International, after interviewing dozens of relatives, puts the number in thousands;
[41] and then-
Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini's deputy,
Hussein-Ali Montazeri put the number between 2,800 and 3,800 in his memoirs,
[42] but an alternative estimation
suggests that the number exceeded 30,000.[43] Because of the large number, prisoners were loaded into forklift trucks in groups of six and hanged from cranes in half-hour intervals."
