Mr. Rajavi recalled that following several years of opposing the Special Representative's trip to Iran, upon the demands by the U.N. Human Rights Commission and the General Assembly, the mullahs' religious, terrorist dictatorship has reluctantly accepted the visit by the new investigator - albeit for a very short and insufficient duration. Mr. Rajavi raised 15 fundamental questions which the regime's officials have so far refrained from addressing and asked Professor Copithorne to compel the mullahs to reply to them.
NCR President asked, among other things, about the number of political executions, torture victims, and those massacred in the summer and autumn of 1988. The latter had been opposed even by Khomeini's designated successor, Mr. Hossein-Ali Montazeri. Mr. Rajavi also asked the Special Representative to question the regime about the number of political prisoners since the very beginning and their plight, the burial sites, particularly mass graves, of the execution victims and the number of those executed under the age of 18.
Mr. Rajavi also inquired about the number of virgin girls ordered raped before execution according to a Khomeini fatwa and about the number of those victims, parts of whose bodies, such as eyes or kidneys, the mullahs had removed for transplant on their own operatives.
NCR President requested clarification about the number of the official and unofficial prisons and their locations and the number of those executed among some 3,000 POWs who had been released by the Mojahedin and the National Liberation Army of Iran from 1987 to 1990 and who had returned to Iran.
Mr. Rajavi also inquired as to whether the regime was prepared for an impartial international investigation by different lawyers and jurists of the explosion in Imam Reza's shrine in June 1994 and the murder of the honorable Christian priests which it had attributed to the Mojahedin. He recalled that in 1994 and 95, the Iranian Resistance repeatedly demanded that the mullahs send to the Vatican the three women, brought before a sham tribunal for the murders of the priests, for questioning, in the presence of the representatives of the Mojahedin and the Iranian Resistance, by lawyers, jurists and international human rights organizations.
Concluding his telegram, Mr. Rajavi sought answers to the number of terrorist operations the mullahs have undertaken beyond Iranian frontiers and asked whether the clerics were prepared to hand over the perpetrators to courts in countries where these assassinations took place or at least willing to accept international delegations consisting of experts, lawyers and jurists to go to Iran to investigate the perpetrators and organizers of these killings.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris February 9, 1996
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