Mullahs' hollow claims about death of two children and an Armenian in Mojahedin's operation exposed
-Regime admits death of official involved in massacre of tens of thousands of political prisoners

Despite an extensive misinformation campaign by the mullahs about the death of an Armenian and two children in the Mojahedin's June 2 attack on the Islamic Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in Tehran, state-controlled newspapers acknowledged after some delay the death of Haj Hassan Salehi, one of the most notorious henchmen and torturers working in Tehran's Evin Prison.

For 10 years, Salehi worked at a section in Evin prison which carries out sentences handed out by "revolutionary courts." This section is responsible for implementing torture or execution sentences against political prisoners.

Following the Mojahedin attack on the Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office, the central Command Headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Defense Industries Organization in Tehran, the mullahs' Supreme National Security Council held an emergency session and instructed the Intelligence and Foreign ministries to fabricate reports and documents on the death of innocent people to present to foreign governments in order to induce them to condemn the Mojahedin.

To this end, The Intelligence Ministry had made every effort to suppress the news of the death of such torturers as Salehi. But a number of state-controlled dailies, including Ettela'at and Jomhouri-Islami, reported his death in their obituary sections some time later. Jomhouri-Islami, June 9, wrote: "Salehi was one of the first members of the Guards Corps active in safeguarding the achievements of the Revolution and in the struggle against domestic conspirators. He then moved on to Evin's Prosecutor's office to continue his activities..."

During the massacre of 30,000 Mojahedin prisoners in summer 1988, Salehi was an official in charge of carrying out mass executions in Evin prison. At the time, he was also one of the officials in charge of the notorious cell-block 209 in Evin prison, the main location where thousands of Mojahedin prisoners were tortured.

A Mojahedin press spokesman said: Keeping the death of such henchmen as Salehi secret lays bare the false nature of the mullahs' claims about the death of, or injury to, innocent people, an Armenian and about the death of two children during the operation against the Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office.

He called on all foreign governments, especially member states of the European Union, not to allow the clerical regime to use them to implement its political and international conspiracies against the Iranian Resistance.

The spokesman added: Obviously, the expression of sympathy by a number of Western countries with the families of such criminals, whose hands are stained with the blood of thousands of political prisoners, only draws the condemnation of the Iranian people.

Press Office of the People's Mojahedin of Iran - Paris
July 6, 1998

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