A newly surfaced video clip from February 15, 2025, reveals Mohammad Moghiseh, a notorious Iranian judge, discussing a pivotal meeting with Ruhollah Khomeini An audio recording leaked to media in 2016 of an August 1988 meeting featuring key officials from the Tehran "death commission" discussing the killings sparked off new debate about their legacy. Both men had been named by activists and exiles as taking part in the 1988 executions, which came at the end of Iran's long war with Iraq. After then-Iranian supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini accepted a UN-brokered ceasefire, members of the exiled Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) heavily armed by Saddam Hussein, stormed across In mid-1988, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran ordered the execution of thousands of political prisoners.These executions happened throughout Iran and lasted about five months, beginning in July. [8]: 8, 13 They took place in at least 32 cities across the country, and were carried out without any legal authority.Trials were not concerned with establishing guilt or innocence. In the summer of 1988, during the premiership of Mir-Hussein Mousavi, thousands of opponents of the Islamic Republic were extrajudicially executed while in prison. Newly published evidence from Amnesty International shows that Mousavi, despite his denials, was aware of the executions, casting a dark shadow over the reformist movement in Iran. Following the publication of its damning report on a three-decade long campaign of misinformation by the Iranian authorities about the mass prisoner killings of 1988, Amnesty International today published a video interview from December 1988 showing Iran's then prime minister, Mir Hossein Mousavi, denying and distorting the truth about these crimes against humanity. Two senior Iranian Supreme Court judges involved in handling espionage and terrorism cases were shot dead in the capital Tehran on Saturday, Iran's judiciary said. New evidence including satellite imagery, photo and

video analysis shows that the Iranian authorities are deliberately destroying suspected or confirmed mass grave sites associated with the 1988 massacre in which thousands of prisoners detained for political reasons were forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed, according to a report released by Amnesty International and Justice for The following video clips are a series of eyewitness accounts from men and women who survived the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, most of whom were affiliated with the main Iranian The following video clips are a series of eyewitness accounts from men and women who survived the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, most of whom were affiliated with the main Iranian