Mohammad Nourizad: Khomeini and Khamenei are complicit in the death of each martyr over the past four decades

Mohammad Nourizad, a civil activist, writer, and filmmaker critical of the Iranian government, accused Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei of ordering the killing of his opponents during a ceremony marking the fortieth day of Dr. Farshid Hekki’s death, and stated that Ayatollah Khomeini was also complicit in the deaths of each victim during the 1980s.

Mr. Nourizad, in these remarks published on social media on Saturday, December 1st, called the suspicious death of Dr. Farshid Hekki, an environmental activist, a murder and said that government officials were complicit in this killing.

This civil activist also said: “In each of the murders that Khalkhali committed, and the blood spilled during the 1980s, Ayatollah Khomeini was responsible, and in the blood of each of the serial killings that took place, Ayatollah Khamenei is complicit.”

Stating that these individuals are complicit either because they ordered these acts or failed to be accountable, he added that each of the young people killed in 2009 were killed under the direct order of Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

Mr. Nourizad’s remarks came nearly simultaneously with the twentieth anniversary of the serial killings of December 1998. Between November 19 and December 9, 1998, writers Majid Sharif, Mohammad Mokhtari, Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh, and Dariush Forouhar, a political activist, and his wife Parvaneh were murdered. Under public pressure and the government’s investigation, the Ministry of Intelligence issued a statement taking responsibility for the killing of the Forouhars, Mokhtari, and Pouyandeh, although critics of the Islamic Republic have repeatedly stated that the killing of opponents and dissidents began in the late 1980s under orders from appointees of the Islamic Republic’s leader and encompassed a large number.

On the other hand, Mr. Nourizad referred to the massacre of opponents in the 1980s and held Ayatollah Khomeini responsible for the blood of each of them. His reference was to the widespread executions ordered by Ayatollah Khalkhali, the religious judge appointed by Ayatollah Khomeini, as well as the widespread massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 under the order of Ayatollah Khomeini.

In 2009, during protests against the results of the presidential election, a number of Iranian youth were killed and several disappeared.

Ayatollah Khamenei, in his famous Friday prayer sermon, had warned that from the next day onward, the blood of anyone who takes to the streets to protest would be on their own hands.

Source: Voice of America