Forgotten Summer Of 1988
More than 30,000 political prisoners were executed
in Iran in less than three months in the forgotten summer of 1988.
Many of these prisoners were serving their prison terms and
many of them had finished serving their time.
Feeling threatened by the dissent against his absolute rule,
less than 10 years into the Islamic revolution, the founder of the Islamic
Republic of Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a religious decree, known as
the “death decree” to execute all political prisoners, most of whom were
members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
He decreed that “as the treacherous Monafeqin [Mojahedin]
do not believe in Islam and what they say is out of deception and hypocrisy… it
is decreed that those who are in prisons throughout the country and remain
steadfast in their support for the Monafeqin [Mojahedin], are waging
war on God and are condemned to execution”....
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