Faces: the arrested and the murderers

The British newspaper Guardian has created a photo gallery with the names and pictures of those arrested. CNN, BBC, do the same! Please send e-mails to your local newspaper. Request they link to the Guardian UK or create their own photo gallery.

The arrested are suffering severe torture (see picture 1 above) in the hands of the Ministry of Interior. The Ministry of Intelligence is commanded by Gholamhussein Mohseni Ezhei, from now on referred as “Mohseni Ezhei”. He has been a leading figure in prosecuting reformist clerics and politicians, as well as suppressing press freedoms, in his various capacities with the Judiciary.

In June 1998, Mohseni Ezhei was the presiding judge in the trial of Tehran’s former Mayor Gholamhussein Karbaschi (picture 2). As mayor, Karbaschi had actively campaigned for the election of Mohammad Khatami as president in 1997. A number of Karbaschi’s deputies were also arrested and Karbaschi said they had been tortured in order to obtain confessions that would incriminate him.

During his trial, Karbaschi repeatedly asked Mohseni Ejehi to investigate torture and ill-treatment of his co-defendants, but his requests were ignored. The court sentenced Karbaschi to three years in prison and banned him from public office for ten years.

In 2004, Mohseni Ezhei also served on the Committee to Oversee the Press as the Judiciary’s representative. In one shocking incident, Mohseni Ezhei physically attacked and bit a prominent reformist journalist, Issa Saharkhiz (picture 2), during a meeting of the committee on May 23, 2004 (source BBC).

Picture 3 shows Mostapha Pour-Mohammadi, he was deputy of Mohseni Ezhei. During Pour-Mohammadi’s tenure as top deputy of the Ministry of Information from 1987 to 1999, agents of the ministry systematically engaged in extrajudicial killings of opposition figures, political activists, and intellectuals.

Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi was the deputy minister of the Ministry of Information in 1998, when agents of that ministry killed the following five prominent intellectuals and political activists:

Darioush and Parvaneh Forohar were killed on 22 November in their Tehran home.

Majid Sharif was “disappeared” on 20 November; his body was found in a Tehran street on November 25.

Mohammad Mokhtari was “disappeared” on 3 December; his body was found in a Tehran city morgue on 9 December.

Jafar Pouyandeh, was “disappeared” on 9 December; his body was found on 13 December in a suburb of Tehran.

Darioush and Parvaneh Forohar were long-time political activists and had been leaders of the Mellat Party of Iran since 1951.

Sharif, Mokhtari, and Pouyandeh were well-known dissident journalists and writers. These killings are known in Iran as the “serial murders.” Under pressure from then-President Mohammad Khatami, on January 5, 1999, the Ministry of Information acknowledged that its agents had perpetrated the murders.

Subsequently, the authorities arrested eighteen people and tried them in connection with the killings. On June 20, 1999, the prosecutor of the Judicial Complex for the Armed Forces announced that the mastermind behind the serial killings was a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Information, Saeed Emami, and that Emami had committed suicide while in custody. Emami was a close personal associate with Khamenei and his family. Click the link “Khamenei, Saeed Emami and the Chain Murders of 1988”.

In 1988, the Iranian government executed thousands of political prisoners held inside Iranian jails. The deliberate and systematic manner in which these extrajudicial executions took place constitute a crime against humanity under international law, Human Rights Watch said. Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi was a member of the three-person committee that ordered prisoners held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison to their summary executions.

From 1990 to 1999, Pour-Mohammadi was director of foreign intelligence operations in the Ministry of Information. During this period, dozens of opposition figures were assassinated abroad. In some of these cases the hand of the Iranian government has been well established, while in others there are credible allegations of government involvement. Pour-Mohammadi is at the center of strong allegations of direct involvement in orchestrating these assassinations.

Ahmadinejad’s choices for the powerful positions of Minister of Interior, Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi, and Minister of Information, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ezhei show that Ahmadinejad will stop at nothing to reach his objectives: a nuclear Iran. Just imagine what those criminals under international law can do with an atomic bomb in their hands. Can Obama negotiate with such unreliable bandits? Read more by clicking the link below “Not again, neo-Chamberlains”.

"It’s completely unacceptable that men with such records would be serving in Iran’s government. They should be removed from their posts and investigated for these terrible crimes”, said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.

Pictures 4 to 10 show other that commited crimes against humanity. Herman Goering, Hans Frank, Julius Streicher, Wilhelm Keitel, Milosevic...they all were drunken with blood and paid for their crimes.

See the photo gallery.

Under the law of God:

"Allah does not forbid you respecting those who have not made war against you on account of (your) religion, and have not driven you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly; surely Allah loves the doers of justice" Koran (60-8) “…take not life, which God hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you, that ye may learn wisdom.” [Al-Qur’an 6:151].

“Otherwise, as I have already said, a government not respecting the people’s vote has no religious or political legitimacy. I ask the police and army personnel not to “sell their religion”, and be aware that receiving orders will not excuse them before God.”  Grand Aiatollah Montazeri June 2009.

The ones that  kill innocent citizens, are blasphemers are blasphemers because they go against the law of God.

Under the law of men.

“The Iranian government at this time has ceased to be a legitimate government. A government primary role is to protect its citizens. They have done the exact opposite. They have hired thugs from the rural areas of Iran, Syria and Lebanon to beat, terrorize andkill its citizens. They pay the Lebanese more than the Iranian. 200,000 Tomans or $200. When your government takes measures to kill you…that is no longer your government! This is no longer about an election!” Anonymous post on Youtube.

“Crimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced” (Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 30^th September and 1st October 1946, Cmd. 6964, Misc. No. 12, London: H.M.S.O 1946, p. 41)

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