A former political prisoner in Iran who came face-to-face with the Butcher of Tehran Ebrahim Raisi before his death in a helicopter incident has opened up about the ‘relief’ he felt. Funeral processions for Iranian president Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian will begin on Tuesday next week in the northwestern city of Tabriz. While the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, announced five days of public mourning, victims have been celebrating .
Ahmad Ebrahimi, who survived the 1988 massacre branded ‘Iran’s greatest crime against humanity’, told Metro.co.uk Raisi’s death is a major blow to the regime.
At the age of 17, he was arrested in Tehran for supporting People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI), a political-militant organisation which advocates for overthrowing the government, and was sentenced to a suspended execution. His sentence was later reduced to seven years in Gohardasht Prison. Iran’s then-supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a formal fatwa – a religious decree – ordering that all Mujahedin supporters be executed unless they repent.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Read the full story » Raisi, then deputy prosecutor general, was part of a ‘four-man commission, later known as the death committee’, which commanded the killings of 30,000 people. Mr Ebrahimi recalled how Raisi visited him in jail in August, 1988: ‘I survived as I w.
