Aadel Collection
Baha’is Executions in Iran (Tehran Times – 1/24/1982)
VOL. 111 No, 1L 4
PRICE 25 PJALS
“IF IRAN is listening” was the thie of an edi.
t4riai which appeared in the New York Th es (the
prestigious American daily) some time ago. in that
the paper severely attacked a statement of the
islamic Republic's Chief Justice Ayatollah Musavi
Ardabili denying the execution of persons bdon-
irig to the Bahai community in ban. The New Yor a
Times further claimed that they know the names
and addresses of all Bahais executed in Iran and
that the paper was ready to announce them “if
Iran is listening!!”
Since the propagations of international imper-
ialism on the issue of “executions” in g icral and
the execution of Jews and fiahais in particular
has increased during the last year, it makes it nece-
ssary for us to express our views in order to en-
lighten the public on this issue.
Today there is nobody who is in doubt as to
the !?-ct of the cx -shah beinq a direct agent of the
US and Zionists in Iran and also of the fact that
the country's affairs were directly run by “dotn-
mating agents.”
One of the treacherous policies which suited
the US most at that ,time was to install in key
positions only those who in addition to being
‘sold-out', ‘westernized', ‘spy' agents were also
characterized by another admired quality —
their refusal to believe in, or outright rejection
of pristine Islam. They had to be followers of
religions which severely opposed Islam so that
when it was needed they could more easily em-
bark on a rnassacre'oI thousands of the Iranian
Moslems in the nation.
It was at the hands of these same agents that
over 4,000 Moslem wo!nei) and children Were
slaughtered in “Black Friday' 1978, a
which was unsurpassed for its savagery in hiz ory.
Tha. explains why the ex-shah always tried
to employ mercenary and ‘sold-out' Communists,
Bahais, Zionists, etc. in governmental bodies.
Such crcatureswere in fact the tools for sprea-
ding the economic and cultural domination of
America over Iran.
To prove the accuracy of our claim, it will.
suffice if we only point to one cf such elements.
Armr Abbas Hoveyda, the shah's premier [ or 13
years was a Bahal, a man acknowledged as the
CIOS 5Z accomplice of the defunctshah.
Yrobab y. thO%C who arc not hostThe t
the Islamic Revolution and are peacefully living
beside Moslems in this country will also be surpri-
sed to know that a Bahal was the prime nistc-r of
a country 98% of who c population were Moalcmi..
The reader can then imas inc how many Bahais
had been put in 53fl po tions by a Bahzi
who was the head of the sh b '. government during
all those years.
After the victory of the Isiamic Revo ution,
Hoveyda was executed .y a ju: t Islamic Court,
and undoubtedly such a i'evolutic3nary execution
is confirmed by all Moalems an :e vorld's libera-
tion seeking people. ut rnr st urprisingly, it w s
later observed that the w stcrn and Zionist propa-
ganida machinery p ote '.'d ruc.h executions and
referred to them as inhwu .z; acts.'
Yes, according to West rrn logic, the massacre
of 4,000 pcopk among whom there were many
infants and pregnant or::cu i not ‘iz i r act'
but the execution of thnso involved in such amass
slaughter is an anti-human action!!
New York Times had cIair :ied that ill Babais
have already been executed in Iran. Even suppos-
ing that such a baseless allegation is tight still
it has to be admitted that this figure yet fails
short of the numbers who may sthciy ocse ve '
to bc executed, taking into account the fact that
the agents ol ' such men s the infamous Hovcvda
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proliferated thc ex-shab's mansions and courtly
offices.
Of course many of those elements did escape
to the west before and in the beginning of the Rev-
olutio and only a few of them were caught
.in the grip of the Moslem masses and faced th
consequences of their crimes.
Many are still perhaps lurking in hideouts but
everyone of them who has been arrested by the
people and the revolutionary forces have been han-
ded over to the Revolutionary Courts tq be tried.
The West must know that every single agent
of theirs will ultimately b arrested and executed
if need be evetr- if their figure should tot up to a
111,000 people.
‘Execution' is the only punishment corres-
ponding to the crimes of those who killed 60,000
innocent Moslems and disabled and injured over
100,000 people its the course of the Revolution.
The same fate awaits those involved in the killing
and disabling tens of thousands of martyrs and
disabled iwiividuais after the Revolution.
AU we wish to say tn papers such as the New
York Times i that you as loud.speakers of. inter-
national Zionism are just making efforts to
convin c ‘peoc c. around the world that these
crirnir als have been executed because of their
religious convictions thid merely on account of.
their bein i a Bahai, jew or Communist. In other
words that they have been executed due to their
faith and jdeoj.ogy beliefs other than Islam.
You propagate this with the .fdllowing objec-
tives in mind:
I — To establish hatred and indignation among
followers of other religions towards Islam and
Moslems.
2 — Tci. infuse enmity and rancor among the
world's people toward the Islamic Revolution of
Iran.
3 — To prepare the grounds for further aggress-
- ioi s of Israeli Zionists in the future.
4 — To instigate the majority of the world's
capitalists who are Bahais and Jews against the
Revolution, so that they- will mobilize all their
capabilities for inflicting economic blows upon
Iran's economy.
5 — Above all, through such baseless propaga-
tions, you try to cover up for the crimes of your
capitalist/Zionist masters and to distract the atten-
tion of the people from the real criminals.
You are certainly aware of the fact that if the
world's people learn of the policies employed
against the oppressed nations such as the Moslem
, suppressed Iranian natiori,.they will not allow sour
/ masters to corn -rue their unscrupulous living and
/ thus there will also be an cnd to your receiving of
billions of dollars from them.
- You certainly know that on learning the truth,
t e people trorn all around the world (Africa,
ia....) will proceed bare-footed to the White
House, Kremlin, Elize...... and bring them down on
you and your masters and indeed such a day is not
too far.
The' crux of our conteption is that nobody has
or ever will be tried, imprisoned or executed sim-
ply because f üs beliefs. It must be remembered
that the number of Moslems who have been execu
ted on charges of terrorism, bombings and cómmi ”.
ting treason against Islam adds up to several
times more than ihe numbers claimed by the New
York Times in re ard to executed Bahais.
Despite their overwhdrn ir .g majority Moslems
who form 98% of the population within the [ ran.
Ian nation are living in real peaceful co-exi ence
with Christians,Jews, Communists and even Bahais
who do not plot a zainst the Islamic faith and the
Re o1ution of the people. There are many mdzvi-
duals and even groups of such people who have
fought in the war and thus sworn allegiance to
Iranian nation, and to concepts. of honor. md
freedom. The graves of such people can now be
seen side by side with those of Moslem martyrs in'
Tehran's Beheshte Zahra cemetery, and that.in fact
is the profoundest testirncny to our claim.
At the same time it must be borne in mind that
in the name of the Iranian nation, the Islamic
Republican Gov .ernment will not let anybody
whether Mosiem, Jew and or Bahai to conspire
against the Islamic Revolution.
The Islamic Republic's Chief Justice, Ayatollah
Ardebth has also recently reiterated this while he
denied the execution of Bthais on account of their
.convictions.
We are sure that our arguments are bound to be
accepted by all free-thinking and humanitarian
people of the world regardless of the religion they
may belong to and this of course ‘if Washington
is listening.' . - .
by MUSAVIAN
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