Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi defended his involvement in the mass execution of political prisoners, calling it a “proportionate” punishment, during an interview that aired just ahead of his arrival in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly.
Raisi was one of four members of a panel in Tehran that carried out a fatwa issued by then-supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, approving the executions of political prisoners in 1988. The precise number of prisoners executed as a result of that process is disputed, though some estimates say that the Iranian authorities killed a few thousand people.
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