On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the massacre of political
prisoners in the summer and August-September of 1988
We Will Neither Forgive Nor Forget !
This year marks 30th anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in Iran. In the summer and August-September of 1988, the
capitalist regime of the Islamic Republic headed by the hangman Supreme
Leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, executed
thousands of the political prisoners.
Khomeini dragged the Iran-Iraq war for 8 years and, in the summer of 1988, he was forced to drink
the chalice of poison, declared cease fire and and semi-officially admitted
defeat.To continue his medieval rule and
to intimidate the society, he flew the demon of death over the head of the political prisoners, and with indescribable
cruelty and savagery, ordered the execution of thousands of hope-filled
communists and revolutionaries. Khomeini carried a blood bath, unprecedented in
Iran's contemporary history. As Khomeini’s Intelligence Minister Ali Falahian
stated last year "The Islamic regime saw its survival in cleansing the
prisons and eliminating the enemies, and this was carried out with the
order from Imam Khomeini"
Khomeini's order :
" In all cases , anyone who is still in discord with the Islamic
Republic at any stage of the case , his sentence is death penalty. Destroy the
enemies of Islam immediately. All cases should be reviewed as quickly as
possible. "
This atmosphere of fear and intimidation shocked the society and, at the time
of Rafsanjani’s presidency, the government’s neoliberal policy of economic
adjustment started to dig its claws into the body of the society. The disastrous results of this policy is crystal clear to
every working man and woman in Iran today.
In this grim killing, Comrades Mehdi Mehralian (Hashem), Hojat Alian (
Kiumars) and Farhad Pashaki, militant members of the Party of Labour of Iran
(Toufan) alongside a large number of
other revolutionaries lost their lives. They sacrificed their lives for the Iranian
revolution and did not submit to the reactionary rule of the Islamic Republic.
The discovered Khavaran mass graves (cemetery) is a witness to the horrendous
crimes committed by all high ranking officials of the Islamic Republic. The
people of Iran do not forgive those who are responsible for the massacre of
political prisoners, for the physical elimination of the freedom fighters since
the beginning of the rule of Ayatollahs , from Tehran to Kurdistan to Turkmen
Sahra to universities and work place ,... . The Iranian society is impatient
for the day these criminal go on trial.
On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of massacre of the political
prisoners in the summer and
September of 1988, the Party of Labour
of Iran (Toufan) commemorates the fallen Party Comrades and all those who made
supreme sacrifice for freedom, equality, independence and social justice. We
turn the grief over this criminal offense into a weapon to intensify the
struggle against the criminal regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its
thugs!