"The care of human life and happiness

to: Expectation - Don't apologize!

Your lame apology is no relief to the pains of thousands of mothers, fathers, children, sisters and brothers who lost their loved ones in hands of this sadist. What you are saying is a poor attempt to justify acts of barbarity against fellow human beings. For your information, Mr Apologist, we have likes Nelson Madela who forgave his jailers and torturers after nearly two decades of imprisonment. Your apology is worthless.

Expectations

Don't expect a revolution to be a clean job. There are groups who are going to do everything possible to topple it such as bombings and killings to achieve their goals at all costs. Some even get paid to do it.

And those in power are going to adjust accordingly and do everything "they" can to counterattack and respond in kind. It's a messy business.

Calling people Zahak and khoonkhar and ejdeha doesn't solve anything. History will remember those days as they were. Chaos, anarchy, disorder, violence and killings on all sides.

Lajevardi was a prisoner himself and turned into this zahak-e zaman right? Wouldn't you say if some of today's political prisoners come to power they'll act same way as Lajevardi? Won't we have the same chaos, anarchy, disorder, violence and killings again?

Holy CRAP!

Just one deep, and I mean "DEEP" look at the three faces in this picture

Can you even imagine  how many lives have been lost, just because of these three people 

سر یک مرغ رو به اون سادگی‌ و بی‌ تشریفاتی نمیبریدند! 

Psycho

Asadollah Lajevardi was a sick man, a psycho, empowered by the mullahs to torture and kill mercilessly. They knew that no ordinary human being, nobody sane and normal could do the job this maniac could do. They left him alone gladly to carry out a job too heinous, too ugly for even one of them to carry out.When they were finished with him, they kicked him out of their circle because nobody could befriend the crazy sick man. He went to Tehran bazaar, where he sold head scarves (roo-sari), until he was assassinated. I think assassinating him was wrong; he should have lived to stand trial.

to MEK are the worst of the worst

Why don't you guys stick to the same ID all the time? At least be conservative and choose a variation on the theme of Anonymous.

NOTHING CAN JUSTIFY THE BARBARITY OF THE IRI. Those who seek to apologize of behalf of the IRI , like the characters menetioned here, will have to stand trial for their siding with their hero, Lajevardi.

Rajavi is the Pol Pot of Iran

Lajevardi was a rotten character, but he gave the followers of Rajavi, the Pol Pot of Iran, what they deserve, Unfortunately, it took bastards like this guy to prevent the victory of the Saddam-Rajavi alliance during the joint Iraqi-MEK invasion of Iran. As bad as things are now in Iran, they would have been 10 times worse had the MEK not been ravaged by the likes of Lajevardi. May he rot in hell, but his brutality served a purpose.

Their brand of "Islamic Marxism" was a lot worse than the IRI, though in their current state they play multiple roles as fabricator of phony nuclear intelligence/collaborators with U.S. and Israeli governments/agitators for an attack on Iran/pro-"democracy" poseurs. Their various incarnations (all of them a sham) can be found throughout this otherwise decent website.

he was a monster

along the lines of the monsters that served people like stalin, hitler and pol pot. he was known as Adolf Eichman of Iran! May he rot in hell with Khomeini, khalkhali and the rest of the islamo facist crowd out there.

Wasn't this about Laajevardi?

I still forget sometimes that it's our national right to have an opinion, even and particularly about stuff we know little or nothing about.

To those who don't, I once again recommend plenty of reading, starting with 'na zistan, na marg' by Iraj Mesdaghi, which you can order by writing to: nazistannamarg@yahoo.com

To the rest such as "Anonymos..." here, it has been a tough struggle but I am not giving up and hope to see others with similar experiences do the same.

Pedram Moallemian
www.eyeranian.net

Pedarma Jan: I suggest you

Pedarma Jan: I suggest you write about your experiences in prison not just once but several times from different aspects to heal yourself and to educate others.

Did you know

that Lajevardi was released from prison in 1976 just as there was a moritorium on releasing Mujahedeen and Fedaian priosners as the SAVAK-CIA operation was in full swing to root out these two groups? Something to ponder for some of you. Yes, Lajevardi was the worst fruit of the 1979 revolution, the Eichman/Mengele/Barbi of Iran. The darkest aspect of Iranian personality preofessing itself in the foulest way. May he rot in hell for an eternity and may the men who sent him there rest in peace. Why is he still valorized by the IRI? because his foul nature was the very essence of fundementalist Islam.

The great turbaned hope

There you go again Free Thinker with your sacrilegious, counter culture thoughts and words. The chaps who adore Khatami don’t like to hear this stuff especially now that he is being touted as the great turbaned hope, again.

Khatami praised Lajevardi

First let us remind ourselves of who Lajevardi was (from Guardian - Jan 13, 1989):

" Lajevardi’s reputation as the “Butcher of Evin” seems to have been well deserved. According to
a 1989 report published in the Guardian newspaper:
[Lajevardi] is especially remembered for two widely used innovations in Iranian gaols.

The first, still in operation was the rape of virgin girls through forced ‘marriages’ to prison
guards, so that an obscure religious sanction against the execution of virgins could be
overcome.

The second, now apparently obsolete or used only with great care, was to test ‘converted’
prisoners’ loyalty by using them in firing squads aiming at other inmates.

This ploy backfired when ‘tested’ inmates opened fire on prison officials including Ladjevardi
himself, before committing suicide.
Farhad Mogaddam, Death Comes to an Iranian Dissident: A Young Woman’s Fruitless Struggle to Stay Alive
Under Ayatollah Khomeini, GUARDIAN (London), Jan. 13, 1989.
On the tenth anniversary of the 1988 massacre, Mojahedin agents assassinated Assadollah Lajevardi.
Iran: Double Standard?, ECONOMIST, Aug. 29, 1998, at 45 (“On August 23rd, Assod-ollah La-je-vardi
was shot dead by two men in his tailor’s shop in Tehran’s bazaar. The Iraq-based [Mojahedin] immediately,
and proudly, claimed responsibility.”).

I am not sure when was (or is still going to be) the lowest point in Khatami's existence. But among such low points was when Khatami paid a hearty tribute to Lajervardi, immediately after his assasination which happened during Khatami's tenure as President. Khatami described Lajevardi, among other things, as "a true and devoted soldier of Islam." See this:

//www.iran-press-service.com/articles/2_lajev...

Many supporters of Khatami choose to dismiss such statements as "slips of tongue" by their hero or as a minor gaffe. But Khatami did not shy away from showing his disdain for those who were tortured and executed by Lajevardi, meaning the university students whom he called them as thugs and hooligans and the Mujahedin supporters whom he considered their blood as Halal to be spilt.

And the answer to your question that why the regime insists on Lajevardi's benevolence is much less complex than what Mr Moallemian suggests. You can always find gestures of humanity even in the worst mass muderers and despots as well as in their henchmen. Saddam Hossein was genuinely a father figure to many Iraqi children, so was Adolf Hitler and his aides like Himler. Small acts of mercy and compasion must not be seen or judged in isolation. The full picture tells the whole story. I have heard such horrifying stories from Lajervardi that are beyond the scope of this comment but in short he was among the darkest, if not the darkest, figure in gloomy gallery of the Islamic Republic criminals.

More on Khatami's praise for Lajervardi:

//www.iran-press-service.com/articles/lajevar...

جلاد

مرگ نازلی

نازلی! بهارخنده زد و ارغوان شکفت
در خانه، زیر پنجره گل داد یاس پیر
دست از گمان بدار!
با مرگ نحس پنجه میفکن!
بودن به از نبود شدن، خاصه در بهار...
نازلی سخن نگفت،
سر افراز
دندان خشم بر جگر خسته بست رفت
***
نازلی ! سخن بگو!
مرغ سکوت، جوجه مرگی فجیع را
در آشیان به بیضه نشسته ست!

نازلی سخن نگفت
چو خورشید
از تیرگی بر آمد و در خون نشست و رفت
***
نازلی سخن نگفت
نازلی ستاره بود:
یک دم درین ظلام درخشید و جست و رفت
نازلی سخن نگفت
نازلی بنفشه بود:
گل داد و
مژده داد: زمستان شکست!
و
رفت...

احمد شاملو

Lajevardi I Knew

Oh boy, I could write volumes about the "why" in your post. It is really complicated and truly deserves a lot more than what I am offering here, but I could not stay silent. Let me start by saying that I was once one of Lajevardi prisoners and "met" him twice. I also second JJ's recommendation on reading Iraj Mesdaghi's book. Despite the other issues I have with it, the parts that are re-telling of that period's history are the most accurate to date.

Back to the "why" part (and as I am having difficulties explaining it,) I can honestly say that I am capable of understanding it. To do it, one needs to put oneself in the position of hezbollahis or better yet; the tavvabin, the prisoners who had turned and at times ran some sections.

To them, Lajevardi always handled himself as a very fatherly figuere, caring so much about our wrong ways and wanting to save us. He wasn't the torturer, but of course supervised a prison full of them. Hezbollahis maintained this image of him (which obviously stays to this day) as not an instrument of god's revenge like Khalkhali, but the saviour that resorted to god described "tough love".

In my upcoming memoir, I am including some rarely seen pictures of Lajevardi in Evin, surrounded by his (supposed) thankfull tavvab children. That may help shed more light on this aspect of the man's life but more of us need to write about the period between 1979-1989 before the regime successfully wipes it off all history books.

Hope this short explanation on something that is overly emotional for me helps.

Pedram Moallemian
www.eyeranian.net

Joseph Goebbels Or Göbels

The bigger the lie,easier for [our] poeple to believe it.

Darkest years

Lajevardi was a butcher like no other. Worse than Khalkhali. Of course they both had the blessing of Khomeini, who had ultimate responsibility for the thousands of innocents executed and tortured and...

I highly recommend reading Iraj Mesdaghi's 3-volume comprehensive history as a political prisoner in the 1980s ("Nah zeestan, nah marg"). Read excerps:
//iranian.com/main/member/iraj-mesdaghi