Long years of experience prove that ignoring executions and ignoring the Iranian people’s Resistance lie in the heart of a policy that has helped the regime over several decades.
Now, it is time for the world to stand with the people of Iran. A new government has recently started its work in the UK. We expect that it adopt a new policy. A policy that stops appeasement and rejects war. A policy that sees the Iranian people as the only force for change.
We need a policy that supports the Iranian people’s demand for a democratic republic. A republic with no torture, no executions, separation of religion and state, and full equality for women and men.
The British Parliament can take the first step by recognizing the Iranian Resistance and the provisional government proposed by the NCRI. Over 600 members of the Parliament already support the NCRI’s democratic plan.
Another step is to take real action against the regime, including:
First – Make all diplomatic and trade relations depend on an end to executions.
Second -Use international jurisdiction to prosecute those responsible for the 1988 massacre and recent killings. And
Third- Ensure any international agreement includes a real, verified stop to executions.
Honorable dignitaries,
Your efforts, led by Mr. Blackman, succeeded in blacklisting the IRGC. I hope your efforts will now help stop executions and facilitate a principled policy in support of the Iranian people’s resistance.

In complete contrast to the regime, the National Council of Resistance of Iran has made the following commitments in its program:
– The death penalty will be abolished.
– There will be an independent justice system and an independent judiciary, based on international standards, including presumption of innocence, right to public defense and independence of judges.
– The mullahs’ religious laws will be abolished, and the so-called Revolutionary Courts will be dissolved.
– Unfortunately, most of the perpetrators of 1988 massacre who have been involved in crimes against humanity, genocide and terrorism during the past four decades, are still in positions of power today.

Maryam Rajavi: The Movement for Justice is an Integral Part of the Struggle of the People of Iran to Overthrow the Clerical Regime

At a time of increasing political executions, we mark the 38th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran.
Khomeini’s order was clear: all PMOI prisoners who remained firm in their beliefs had to be executed. But later, the executions also included other political prisoners. However, 90 percent of those executed were affiliated with the PMOI.
They are the spirit of resistance that continues from one generation to the next, as they rise for freedom.
In August 1988 in a letter to the UN Secretary General, Massoud Rajavi the leader of the Iranian Resistance, stated: “According to reliable information, several weeks ago, Khomeini issued a handwritten order for the execution of political prisoners who supported the PMOI.”
As the late Baroness Boothroyd said, “The 1988 massacre was the largest massacre of political prisoners since the Second World War.”
In 2024, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran, Professor Javaid Rehman, described it as a crime against humanity and genocide.
However, the world remained silent and failed to act. As a result, those who ordered and carried out the massacre have enjoyed complete impunity until today.

Maryam Rajavi: From 1988 Massacre to Executions Today

Honorable members of the Parliament of Australia,
My fellow compatriots in Australia,

I am pleased to meet you all.
This conference is held to mark the 38th anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in Iran.
In July 1988, Khomeini, the founder of religious dictatorship in Iran, issued the decree for the execution of members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran in prisons across the country.
He ordered that PMOI prisoners who remained steadfast in their positions be executed immediately.
This referred to those who, despite years of torture and abuse, refused to abandon the struggle for the freedom of the Iranian people.
Subsequently, 30,000 people, 90 percent of whom were members of the PMOI, were hanged.
This book contains the names of five thousand PMOI members who were massacred.
https://www.maryam-rajavi.com/en/australian-parliament-conference-on-1988-massacre-in-iran/

For years, the Iranian Resistance has pursued a justice movement for the victims of the 1988 massacre.
In the very first weeks following the start of the killings, the leader of the Iranian Resistance, Massoud Rajavi, sent telegrams to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, exposing the secret decree for the massacre alongside a campaign of widespread arrests and executions.
As a result of these efforts, the United Nations General Assembly included the issue of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in its resolution for the first time last year.
Also in 2024, Professor Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, published a very important report on the 1988 massacre, describing it as a crime against humanity and genocide.
We expect the international community, and particularly the Australian Parliament and government, to take the initiative in adopting effective measures against the massacres and executions in Iran. These include:
• Prosecuting Iran’s ruling criminals by governments under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
• Referring the case of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, as a crime against humanity, along with the regime’s other major crimes against the Iranian people, to the UN Security Council.
• Including an end to executions in Iran as a key demand of the entire Iranian people in any international agreement.