Khamenei admits to Sayyad Shirazi's suppressive and criminal role

Subsequent to the punishment in northern Tehran by Mojahedin's operational units of Maj. Gen. Ali Sayyad Shirazi, military advisor to mullahs' Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Deputy Chief of the General Command Staff of the clerical regime's Armed Forces, in message broadcast on the state television last night, Khamenei admitted to Sayyad Shirazi's criminal role in the suppression of the people of Iranian Kurdistan and the death of hundreds of thousands of Iranian teenagers during the unpatriotic war with Iraq. Mullahs' leader said: "For many years, the hot land of Khuzistan province and the tall passes of Iranian Kurdistan were witness to the readiness of this decent, determined and brave human being."

Unable to hide the faltering clerical regime's loss over losing one of its key suppressive agents, Khamenei named Sayyad Shirazi alongside Assadollah Lajevardi, Iran's Adolf Eichmann, as "pure and pious men."

As the butcher of Evin, Lajevardi was responsible for the execution of tens of thousands of political prisoners and Sayyad Shirazi, the butcher of Kurdistan, was directly involved in the execution and purging the armed forces' patriotic personnel and the death of hundreds of the Mojahedin.

In its report last night about Sayyad Shirazi's shameful record, the state television acknowledged his role in the widespread arrest and execution of nationalist armed forces' personnel. It said: "After the victory of the revolution, with a Bassiji-like attitude, Sayyad Shirazi played a decisive role in the transformation of the military."

People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
April 11, 1999

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