Justice for the Victims of 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI)

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Sep

Rafsanjani: Cut off their arms and legs

Ettela’at, October 3, 1981

Referring to the grouplets’ operations, Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Islamic parliament and Tehran’s acting Friday prayer leader, said in his first sermon:

“Divine law defines four sentences for them which must be carried out:

1- Kill them,

2- Hang them,

3- Cut off their arms and legs,

4- Banish them…”

“Had we caught and executed 200 of them right after the revolution, they would not have multiplied so much. If we don’t deal decisively with [Mojahedin] armed grouplet and agents pf America and the Soviet Union today, in three years we will have to execute thousands of them instead of one thousand now…”