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 (Se i 5pa eCOLl) B.P000286 S. u SUNDAY JANUARY 24, 1 82 (4 EJJTh4AN• 3 ()) t o i k W ilto
—...--. -—-‘.- - - /;.. . . .. . 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 r