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Nasser Mohajer: Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988

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Nasser Mohajer speaking before a full house at Revolution Books on July 7, 2023 about his book Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988. The event was co-sponsored by the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Prisoners Now.

National Organization of Iranian Women

The National Organization of Iranian Women (NOIW), established in January 1965 in close association with the Confederation of Iranian Students, was the first organization founded by Iranian women abroad. The organization did not remain active for long and by the end of the 1960s had all but dissolved.
Research into the history of the first Iranian women’s organization abroad ….

1988

The book, which took ten long years of research to complete, is divided into six chapters in which 25 eyewitnesses talk, in harrowing detail, about the massacre that took place at the end of the Iran-Iraq war, in the summer of 1988, as per a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. Declaring that he had drunk the cup of poison ending the war, Khomeini ordered a “final solution” to the plight of thousands of political prisoners who had been incarcerated for years, having undergone horrible torture and awaiting the termination of their sentences.