Position during 1988 massacre: Director General of the Ministry of Intelligence in Gilan Province

Present post and occupation: Deputy Director General of company in charge of constructing apartments in sea resort in Bandar Anzali (adjacent to Rasht)

He was the prison warden of Bandar Anzali from 1981 to 1985. He was transferred to the prosecutor’s office in 1985 and subsequently to the Ministry of Intelligence. He was Director General of the Ministry of Intelligence in Gilan Province in 1988 at the time of the massacre. Shayaeste Vatandoost, a political prisoner, has testified that Hossein Moayed Abedi, as the representative of the MOIS was one of the individuals in charge of mass executions of political prisoners in Naval Prison of Rasht. Regarding the massacre in the women’s ward of the Naval Prison of Rasht, she said: “Only two inmates were summoned for the ‘tribunal’: Faranak Tavoosi and Maryam Vahedi. They were summoned at 9 and 10 am of July 30, 1988. When they returned to the ward they said that Abedi and two other individuals whom they could not establish their identities, asked them three questions without being blindfolded. The two girls thought the questions were raised for their release. The questions were as the following: What is your view of Monafeghin Organization? (Monafeghin is the mullahs’ derogatory term for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran). What is your view of Islamic Republic? Are you willing to repent before television? Faranak was supposed to be released in a month and was supposed to be released on September 7, 1988. Mahnaz was just arrested and was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. The two were executed alongside 24 others including Shahin Samai who were not summoned before this court or the Death Committee, were executed.”