Iran’s President-elect Raisi addresses ties to mass executions
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Raisi says he is ‘proud’ of his work as a former prosecutor and will continue to ‘defend human rights’ as president.
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi for the first time addressed his links with the mass execution of political prisoners in 1988 when he was deputy prosecutor of Tehran. Rights groups say shortly after the eight-year Iran-Iraq war ended, Raisi was one of the members of a so-called “death commission” that ordered the disappearance and execution of thousands of prisoners. Many were reportedly members of the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq (MEK), a regime-change organisation now based in Europe, which at the time led a military assault on Iranian soil despite the fact a United Nations-brokered ceasefire had taken hold.
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