I began to try the convicts soon after my
nomination. The first people I tried and punished for their deeds were Ne'matollah Nasiri, head of
SAVAK, and Khosrodad, Head of Paratroopers, Naji, Martial Law Administrator of Esfahan, and Rahimi, martial Law administrator of Tehran
and Head of Police Force. These four people were executed on February 13, 1979[1] at
night in the Refah
School and I sentenced them to
death. That night, I had condemned 24 people but because of interferences, I only
ordered the execution of the above mentioned four. These were our first
executions. Of course, with my persistent efforts, I finally was able to
progressively execute right there those 24 people. Salar
Jaf was also among them... All the people who were sentenced
to death by the Revolutionary Tribunals were the best examples of
"corruptor on earth" and they were executed as such.
A Corruptor on earth is a person who
contributes to spreading and expanding corruption on earth. Corruption is what leads
to the decline, destruction and the deviation of society from its nature.
People who were executed had strived in spreading corruption and prostitution,
circulating heroin, opium and licentious behavior, atheism, murder, betrayal,
flattery, and, in sum, all these vile qualities. These people's problems were
aggravated by the fact that they did not repent once they saw the people's
revolution.
I believed at the time, and I still believe,
that all the parliamentarians and senators, all governors, heads of SAVAK and
Police, who after 1963, and the Imam boycott, held office are all sentenced to
death. High ranking Ministries' officials who were instrumental in the survival
of the apparatus [Shah's regime] and who, for getting close to the Shah and his
family would accept any humiliation, are all convicted (condemned).
To sum it up, all the people that I condemned
and who were executed in the early days of the establishment of the
Revolutionary Tribunals and later in the Qasr prison
were all corruptor on earth and based on the Qu'ran
judgment their blood was a waste? They all belonged to the thousand families or
were freemasons or traitors [Iran forush] or people
who destroyed society. Based on the judgment of the Qu'ran,
it was impossible to exonerate them.
Some of the people who were executed were:
1-Hoveida, Nasiri, Rabii, Khosrowdad, Lt General Pakravan, General Naji, General Rahimi, Salar Jaf,
General Berenjian, General Beid
Abadi, The Tabriz martial
law administrator.[2]
