July 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Naser Kanani, stated this Wednesday that, in protest against the ruling that was issued against the former Iranian official for the mass executions and torture of opponents in 1988 in a prison in the city of Karaj, Iran has decided to call its ambassador in Stockholm for consultations.
A Swedish court last week sentenced former Iranian official Hamid Nuri to life in prison.
Nuri has told his family in a phone call that he is still in solitary confinement and has recriminated that no human rights organization has visited or followed up on his case, despite his long time in solitary confinement, as the IRNA news agency reported.
The convicted man, Hamid Nuri, was arrested in the European country in November 2019, after which a trial was opened against him in 2021 for his role in the killing of thousands of people, according to the Swedish newspaper ‘Aftonbladet’.
The executions were carried out following a secret edict issued by the then great leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini, after an armed incursion into Iran by the PMOI, an opposition group based in Iraq and banned by the authorities. Iranians, according to the report published by Amnesty in 2018.
Khomeini’s order came in the last phases of the war between Iran and Iraq (1980-1988), in which the PMOI, which actively participated in the revolution that overthrew Shah Reza Pahlevi with an Islamist discourse mixed with an adaptation of the Marxist ideology, he fought on the side of Saddam Hussein’s regime after denouncing the actions of the religious leadership established by the ayatollahs.
The group was persecuted by the religious authorities established in Iran, which led the then leader of the group, Masud Rajavi, to reach a pact with Hussein in 1986 in the midst of the war between the two, which led Iran to the supreme leader of Iran to order the execution of alleged members and sympathizers of the organization.
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