One of the dead, Asghar Re'is-Ismaeeli, was among leaders in the Islamic Association in the mullahs' Judiciary with a long record in torturing and executing political prisoners. Re'is-Ismaeeli had arrested a large number of Justice Department's personnel, including dissident judges and sent them before firing squads. When Lajevardi was the head of the country's Prisons Organization, Re'is Ismaeeli served as his deputy.
The state-controlled media acknowledged Re'is-Ismaeeli's death in yesterday's clashes. The other person killed was an agent from the Ministry of Defense whose name has not yet been announced.
Lajevardi's death has terrified the clerical regime's demoralized agents and operatives. For this reason, in their messages, Khatami, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Majlis Speaker Nateq-Nouri and the Judiciary Chief Mohammad Yazdi have tried to boost the moral of the regime's forces.
At the same time, the state radio and television have broadcast several programs extolling the "Butcher of Evin." In one such program last night on the state television, a regime's official acknowledged Lajevardi's crimes against dissidents and the Mojahedin. He said: "The Imam [Khomeini] appointed Lajevardi as the Revolutionary Prosecutor in Tehran in order to uproot the Mojahedin and the counterrevolutionaries."
Mojahedin Command Headquarters inside Iran
August 24, 1998
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