From the very first months of his rule, Khomeini appointed Mullah Razini as a religious judge. In the past 20 years, he played a significant role in the execution of 120,000 martyrs of the Iranian Resistance and in the plunder of the Iranian people's wealth and property.
A partial list of Razini's crimes follows:
1. Since the first months of Khomeini's rule, Razini began his work on Khomeini's order, as a religious judge in Tehran's Revolutionary Courts.
2. In the early 80s, he was the Revolutionary Prosecutor of Mashhad (capital of the northeastern Khorassan province) and was responsible for the arrest, execution and torture of Mojahedin and other dissidents in the province. During his tenure as Revolutionary Prosecutor, thousands of Mojahedin members and sympathizers were executed in the cities across the province.
3. In February 1985, Khomeini promoted Razini to the post of the Chief Revolutionary Prosecutor. Thereafter, all the executions of prisoners in Tehran were carried out under his supervision and on his orders.
4. In March 1986, simultaneous with increasing desertions by the military personnel from the warfronts, mullah Razini was appointed as the head of the Judicial Organization of the Armed Forces. A large number of soldiers and officers were tortured and executed on Razini's orders for deserting the warfronts or for disobeying their commanders' orders.
5. In the documentary footage showing the scenes of stoning, made public last year by the Mojahedin, Razini issued the verdict for the stoning of four military servicemen and was the first person to hurl stones at the victims.
6. On the basis of a decree by Khomeini on June 15, 1987, Razini was appointed as the "religious judge for the Special Tribunal for the Clergy." In his decree Khomeini wrote: "I appoint you in your current position as the 'religious judge for the Special Tribunal for the Clergy' to investigate, on the basis of religious laws, the crimes of those posturing as clerics ."
In his decree, Khomeini called on "the Supreme Judicial Council" to accord Razini "full assistance" and stressed that all courts and prosecutor offices are duty bound to provide him with "all the requested files." In this post, Razini had unlimited powers and prosecuted many dissident clerics and ordered the execution of many of them. Simultaneously, Khomeini appointed Ali Fallahian, at the time Deputy Intelligence Minister, as the prosecutor for the Special Tribunal for the Clergy.
7. On September 19, 1992, mullahs' leader Ali Khamenei appointed Razini as his representative in the central council of representatives of the vali-e faqih in the universities to further clamp down on dissent.
8. With the reorganization of the Judiciary in 1994, Razini was appointed as the head of Tehran's Justice Department. In this post, he virtually presided over all institutions affiliated with the Judiciary in Tehran, including general and revolutionary courts. In so far as his power and authority were concerned, Razini was thus the de facto number-two official in the Judiciary. As ludicrous as it may seem, this anti-Islamic, anti-human mullah was in charge of "the Committee to pursue and safeguard Islamic human rights" in the Judiciary.
9. Razini worked closely with Intelligence Ministry since its formation. He was a close associate of Mohammad Mohammadi Rayshahri and Ali Fallahian, the first and the former intelligence ministers, respectively. When Khatami became president, Razini was among those considered for the post of the Minister of Intelligence.
10. During the power struggle among the mullahs in recent months, it was revealed that Razini had embezzled 350 billion rials ($100 million) by transferring it from the Judiciary Branches accounts to his own personal account. According to the state-run press in Iran, the activities of the Ansar-e Hezbollah and their publications such as Shalamche, were funded through this account.
The Mojahedin's Command Headquarters inside Iran
January 6, 1999
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