By: Sanabargh Zahedi, Chairman of the Judicial Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
A former cultural advisor to the Iranian regime's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who turned against him following the suppression of 2009 anti-regime protests has confirmed that more than 33,000 people were executed during the 1988 massacre of political prisoners.
Artist and film director Mohammad Nurizad is now openly criticizing Khamenei after producing and directing around 20 movies and TV series in favour of the regime, and having articles published in Khamenei's mouthpiece the Kayhan daily.
Since his breakaway from the regime, Nurizad – who had extensive connections with senior regime officials and in particular with Khamenei’s inner circle - has been writing open letters to Khamenei protesting at the suppression of the Iranian people by the regime's forces.
In an article posted on his website on April 13 entitled 'They are the ones that will lose', and where he also refers to the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda massacre, he wrote: “In our country (Iran) too we have conducted such massacres; massacres that due to purposeful silence and state red lines, never been cited in official internal or international statistics."
He continued: "In our Iran too, governance is the rule of a minority over an enchained majority… Here too in a span of two to three months, they beat up and murdered 33,000 imprisoned girls, boys, women and men and transferred their corpses by tipper trucks to Khavaran (a cemetery in south-east Tehran ) and unknown deserts and buried them in groups and then they rubbed their hands in delight’.
In one of his letters he said: “The society is on the verge of a tremendous explosion and the apparent calm is only due to battering and at gunpoint.”
His writings caused him to be arrested and detained. And from prison, it was written: “The Tehran’s General Prosecutor suggested he write a request to Ayatollah Khamenei and plead for forgiveness, but he rejected the offer”.
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