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"Hanging judge", Khalkhali, dies in Iran
AFP - World News (via Iranmania)
Nov 27, 2003



TEHRAN -- Ayatollah Sadeg Khalkhali, who as head of Iran's first revolutionary tribunals after the 1979 birth of Iran sent dozens if not hundreds of people to the gallows, died Thursday at the age of 76, state TV said.
The judge died in a Tehran hospital after undergoing a brain operation.

Known in the foreign media as "the hanging judge," the ayatollah shot to prominence after condemning to death in absentia the deposed shah of Iran and ordering the execution of former premier Amir Abbas Hoveyda.

The ex-chief of the shah's dreaded Savak secret police, Nematollah Nassiri, was also among those executed under his death sentences, along with several generals and former officers in the imperial army.

In the late 1990s, Khalkhali, who was close to the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 revolution, published a list of 85 people, mostly officers or officials of the former regime, whose execution he had personally ordered.

However dozens of left-winger and Kurds who rebelled against Khomeini after the revolution were also put to death on Khalkhali's orders.

He voiced no regrets for his verdicts. "If I had to do it again, I would restart," the judge wrote in his memoirs.

Khalkhali also wrote of how he ensured the execution of ex-premier Hoveyda was carried out without any last-minute intervention by the liberal government of Mehdi Bazargan.

"I ordered the telephone lines to be cut and the prison gates shut until the judgement was over ... During the trial, a helicopter flew over the prison but I held firm," he said.

In the early years of the revolution, Khomeini also ordered him to crack down on drug traffickers, of whom many were executed.

Khalkhali was an MP for the Shiite holy city of Qom in central Iran for more than a decade, but his parliamentary candidacy was rejected in 1991 by the Council of Guardians legislative watchdog.

He was later politically sidelined, while supporting pro-reform president Mohammad Khatami, and retreated to a theological school in Qom where he gave lessons.

Khalkhali is to be buried in Qom on Friday.





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Khalkhali in response to question about possibility of being sent to war
crimes tribunal said:

"Do you mean that I could be sent to the international war crimes tribunal?
"No, it is not possible. If I did anything wrong, Ayatollah (Ruhollah)
Khomeini (leader of the revolution) would have told me. I only ever did what
he asked."

He should have mentioned this statement was copy righted by Hitler's general
Raumul in 1945

be omide nAboodeeye IRI

Yek Irani

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Executed Early 1979.
They have been executed without being identified. Bodies are lined up to be identified
Pure massacre.

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Sadegh Khalkali
He was the chief prosecutor in the first two years of the Islamic revolution. He was responsible for summary trials and executions of many political opposition group members and ethnic minorities (Kurdish, Arab, Balutch). Due to the many executions committed my him, he was nicknamed "the hanging judge."


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Khalkhali has reported that he is planning to keep the Door of Hell Open for all his fellow Mafia Islamic Regime's members to join him ASAP. His top wanted list are as follows:
1- Sludge The Great Rafsanjani,
2- Supreme Sludge Khameni,
3- Dirt Khatami,
4- Sludge Mussavi Ardebili
Chief Islamic revolutionary prosecutor responsible for ordering executions of thousands of political opposition groups on framed-up charges.
5- Sludge Haj Sheikh Hassan Sanei
Islamic Revolutionary prosecutor responsible for phony trials and execution of hundreds of political prisoners in Esfahan and Tehran.
6- Sludge Hussein Shariatmadari
He interrogated many political prisoners during 1981 to 1988 and was responsible for murder and execution of the prisoners for during that period.
7- Sludge Ali Falahian
He was ex-minister of security and information and who planned murders and assassinations of many writers and political activists while in charge.

8-Sludge Hojatollislam Ray Shahri
As the Islamic court prosecutor was responsible for interrogation and passing down of long term prison terms and death sentences to many member of political opposition groups.

9-Sludge Gilani
He was in charge of interrogation and prosecution of political prisoners in Iran between 1981 to 1988. He issued many death sentences to political prisoners who merely belonged to opposition parties and had no legal representation.

10-Sludge Seyyad Mohammad Khoiena
He was responsible for take over of U.S. embassy in Tehran on 1980. As a leading member of the Islamic Mojahedin group, he was responsible for capture, torture, interrogation, and execution of hundreds of members of political opposition groups in Iran.

11-Sludge Assadollah Lajavardi
Known as butcher of Evin, responsible for instituting and implementation of horrific tortures in the Evin prison in Tehran, and executions of thousands of political prisoners from 1981 to 1996.
(He was assassinated later on in Tehran)


12-Sludge Haddi Ghaffari
He was the leader of the Hezabollahi group who acted as shock troop leader for the Islamic regime and attacked peaceful assemblies and meetings, stabbing and arresting people. He was also an Islamic prosecutor in Iran for brief period of time.


Supreme Sludge Khomeni Is waiting in the Hell for his team, please don't keep him waiting.

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[AP]

Islamic judge handed out execution orders

The Associated Press
Friday, November 28, 2003

TEHRAN - Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali, a judge known for sentencing hundreds of people to death following Iran's revolution, has died. He was 77.

Khalkhali died after an operation in a Tehran hospital on Wednesday night, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported yesterday.

Khalkhali was known for ordering the execution of scores of opponents of Iran's revolutionary leadership, including former prime minister Abbas Hoveida.

His son, Mohammad Givi-Khalkhali, attributed the retired judge's death to old age and illnesses of the heart and brain.

Khalkhali was appointed president of the Islamic Revolution Court in February, 1979, shortly after the revolution deposed the U.S.-backed Shah Reza Pahlavi.

In his autobiography he wrote that he sentenced to death 85 members of the Shah's government and security forces, but others held him responsible for the executions of many more without trials.

Some of his trials lasted only minutes. It was widely reported in Iran that when Nematollah Nasiri, a top military official under the Shah, came before him, Khalkhali picked up a pistol and shot him dead on the spot.

In retirement, Khalkhali made no apologies.

He said the founding father of the revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had given him wide powers and, at that time, it was necessary for him to use them.

[HyflerRosner]

From: Hyfler/Rosner (relfyh@rcn.com)
Subject: Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali; "hanging judge" of the Iranian revolution
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Lovely man.

Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali
(Filed: 28/11/2003)


Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali, who died on Wednesday aged 77, was the "hanging judge" of the Iranian revolution, responsible for sending hundreds, possibly thousands, of people to their deaths; he became notorious in the West after he appeared on television poking the charred corpses of American servicemen killed in an unsuccessful bid to rescue hostages held in the American embassy in Tehran.

Khalkhali, known as "the butcher" to his compatriots, brought to his job as
Chief Justice of the revolutionary courts a relish for summary execution
that would have made Judge Jeffries seem like a member of the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Khalkhali acted as prosecutor, judge and jury in his own cases, regarding
his rulings as "the judgment and conscience of 35 million people". He
developed a new judicial concept called "obvious guilt" - whereby the
accused is presumed guilty if his or her "crimes" were "very clear" prior to
the trial.

Stories of his cruelty were legion. One of his first victims was Amir-Abbas
Hoveida, the Shah's prime minister for eight years. After sentence had been
passed, pleas for clemency poured in from all over the world and it was said
that Khalkhali was told by telephone to stay the execution. Khalkhali
replied that he would go and see what was happening. He then went to Hoveida
and either shot him himself or instructed a minion to do the deed. "I'm
sorry," he told the person at the other end of the telephone, "the sentence
has aleady been carried out."

Some of Khalkhali's victims were no more than children. When a 14-year-old
boy he had had executed turned out to be innocent, Khalkhali remarked that
the child was not on his conscience because he had "sent him to heaven". His
critics maintained that in his early life Khalkhali had spent time in a
mental institution for torturing cats; it was said that strangling cats
remained one of his favourite pastimes.

The months after the 1979 Iranian revolution saw the execution of many
ministers, army officers and others with connections, however tenuous, with
the Shah. "Those who fought with God on earth or with his prophets, or who
spread corruption on earth must be killed, and hanged when they are killed,
to show their bodies to the people," Khalkhali proclaimed.

Many of Khalkhali's victims were Iranian Kurds, on whom Ayatollah Khomeini
had declared a holy war in August 1979. At the height of the terror, up to
60 Kurds a day were being sentenced to death by Khalkhali's itinerant
kangaroo court.

A small, rotund man with a pointed beard, kindly smile, and a high-pitched
giggle, Khalkhali did not look the ogre he clearly was. Like Eichmann, he
saw himself as a loyal servant who had only been obeying orders.

When the French newspaper Le Figaro asked him whether he should face trial
for crimes against humanity, he replied: "No. It is not possible. If I had
acted wrongly, Imam Khomeini would have told [me]. I only did what he asked
me to do." But he added: "If my victims were to come back on earth, I would
execute them again, without exceptions."

Khalkhali's macabre sense of humour was brought home to the West in April
1980 when the bodies of American servicemen killed in an unsuccessful
attempt to rescue the American embassy hostages in Tehran were discovered in
the remote desert region where their helicopter had crashed. Khalkhali, who
travelled to the site to supervise the recovery of the bodies, was reported
to have commented, "I'm sorry I didn't find them alive".

Later he presided over a press conference held in the backyard of the
embassy, at which the bodies were displayed to the world's press. Few events
of the past 50 years - with the exception of the September 11 bombings -
angered the American public so much as the spectacle of Khalkhali gloatingly
ordering the bags containing the dismembered limbs of the dead servicemen to
be split open so that the blackened remains could be picked over and
photographed. The grisly footage from Tehran was repeated over and over
again until American audiences had caught every snide gesture and touch of
degradation Khalkhali could bring to the scene.

Sadeq Khalkhali was born in 1926 and emerged from obscurity in February 1979
to head the newly established revolutionary courts.

After his dealings with the Kurds, Khalkhali was ordered by Ayatollah
Khomeini to crack down on drug dealers, a task he performed with his
customary élan. But Khalkhali's bloodthirsty views soon began to embarrass
the revolutionary leadership and in December 1980 he was forced to resign
because of his failure to account for millions of dollars worth of money
seized in raids on drug traffickers and amassed in fines.

Khalkhali was an MP for the Shiite holy city of Qom in central Iran for more
than a decade and served as head of the Iranian parliament's foreign policy
committee; but his parliamentary candidacy was rejected in 1991 by the
Iranian legislative watchdog, the Council of Guardians.

Following the 1997 landslide election victory of Mohammed Khatami, Khalkhali
expressed his support for the political reform movement, but his belated
conversion to a modicum of democracy was viewed with distrust.

Khalkhali is survived by a wife and son.


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... and these are the people that Raygun and Ollie North were dealing with in
order to raise illegal money ...


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why some people live like they do.
So many nice things happenin' out there,
they never even seen the clues." -- Jimmy Buffett, "Migration"

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http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=468265

Sludge Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali
Hardline cleric known as the 'hanging judge' of Iran
29 November 2003

Mohammed Sadeq Givi Khalkhali, cleric and writer: born Givi, Azerbaijan 27 July 1926; married (one son); died Tehran 27 November 2003.


After the establishment in 1979 of a fundamentalist Islamic republic in Iran under the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian army occupied three Kurdish-Iranian towns for supporting the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, condemned by Khomeini as "un- Islamic". The hardline cleric Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali set up his Islamic revolutionary court to weed out "counter-revolutionaries" in the town of Saghez.

Learning that a Kurdish defendant who was born in Orumiyeh had lost a hand to a grenade explosion during the Tehran uprising, Khalkhali asked what he was doing in Saghez.

"I am a guest at a social get- together, your honour," replied the defendant.

"That fits together very well," Khalkhali said candidly, "Born in Orumiyeh, participated in the Tehran uprising, executed in Saghez. Kill him! Next!"

The next defendant was charged with being the son of a usurer.

"What does my father's crime have to do with me?" protested the defendant.

"Usury is haram - sin," thundered Khalkhali, "and so is the seed of usury. Kill him! Next."

Twenty-four other Kurds were tried that day by Khalkhali. All were executed.

The scene was typical of Khalkhali's Islamic revolutionary court, where he acted as a prosecutor, judge and jury. The trials went on for just under two years, earning him titles like "the hanging judge" or the "butcher of the revolution". Two thousand members of the Shah's regime were executed in 1979 alone, by Khalkhali's own admission in his 1999 memoirs. Twenty years on, he remained unrepentant. "I would do exactly the same again," he said, when reminded how defendants had been given little chance to speak or get a lawyer to challenge evidence, if any were presented. "If they were guilty, they will go to hell and if they were innocent, they will go to heaven."

Hundreds of diplomats, academics and politicians were executed as "counter-revolutionaries" in his court. They included Abbas Hoveida, Iran's prime minister for 12 years under the Shah. When a reporter from Le Figaro told Khalkhali in 2000 that he could face the international courts of justice, he said: "No, it is not possible. If I did anything wrong, Ayatollah Khomeini would have told me. I only ever did what he asked."

Mohammed Sadeq was born in 1926 to Mohammed Sadeq Givi, a farmer, and Mashadi Khanum Um-Elbanin, in the village of Givi near Khalkhal in the north-western province of Azerbaijan. His education was exclusively religious as a seminarian in the holy city of Qom, where he added the provincial name Khalkhali according to clerical custom.

In the 1950s he joined an underground terrorist group Fedayeen Islam (Commandos of Islam). The group was responsible for killing numerous secular politicians in the 1960s and 1970s. Khalkhali was arrested by the Shah's security services on many occasions between 1963 and 1978, for his support of the fundamentalist Ayatollah Khomeini, who was living in exile until 1978.

In May 1950 the Shah's father, Reza Shah Pahlavi I, the founder of modern Iran, died and Khalkhali planned to set fire to the corpse when it was transferred from Egypt, but the train carrying it did not stop at Qom as planned, thus foiling the plot. Later, when the Shah was deposed by Khomeini in 1979, Khalkhali supervised the destruction by dynamite of the mausoleum of Reza Shah I.

Khalkhali became part of a cruel dictatorship hiding behind a population they imagined approved of their deeds. "I issued judgment and acted as the conscience of 35 million people," Khalkhali said. However, Iranian intellectuals saw him as more of a psychopath. Some reports suggested he spent time during his youth under strict observation in a lunatic asylum for his sadistic habit of strangling cats.

Television footage taken in 1980 showed Khalkhali prodding the burnt corpses of US soldiers killed in an unsuccessful mission to rescue American hostages held at the US embassy in Tehran. Khalkhali supported terrorism abroad and encouraged agents and volunteers to assassinate exiled "counter-revolutionaries" and former politicians he had condemned to death in absentia.

By 1981, Khomeini had forced Khalkhali to retreat into the background but he resumed his executions as a head of the Iranian anti-narcotic agency from 1982. He remained a member of parliament from 1980 until 1992. In 1992 he retired to Qom to teach in religious schools and write his memoirs, and would give interviews gloating over the fate of thousands of his victims.

Adel Darwish

[Spenta]

[GhassanCharbel]

Khalkhali Died… With No Regrets
Ghassan Charbel Al-Hayat 2003/11/28

The ruthless are also attacked by sickness. Age rushes upon them. Their hearts become disturbed, their hands shake, and their grip slackens. The ruthless are also visited by death. It sends them to the ground. It sends them to the ground, which they used to send people to without hesitation. The ruthless are also visited by death if they got away from the fists of the courts.

Ayatollah Sadiq Khalkhali.

Khalkhali died in his bed. News of his death awakens the pits of memory. Following the victory of the Iranian revolution in 1979, a tough mission was assigned to him; the presidency of the "Revolutionary Courts." Usually, revolutions that erupt to put an end to injustice have the tendency to practice it. Mentioning his name used to arouse fear, tremor, and horror. Calling a person to stand in front of Khalkhali meant that he was coming closer to the banquet. Closer to be turned into a corpse. This strict judge is not deceived by tears or confused by cries for help. Excuses do not convince him and he has not heard of what is called "extenuating circumstances." His court has a single function. His judgments are issued with a single clause. Execution.

Khalkhali instilled fear in the hearts of the "revolution's enemies." To be called to his council is like having your name on Beria's lists. Because the fate of the revolution is in the balance, sympathy did not sneak into his heart. Mercy dared not approach him.

"When I stand before God, I have the total confidence that the judgment would be in my favor for what I did. There would be no questions about the executions, not even one." The speaker is Sadiq Khalkhali. He said that he does not recall the number of those he sent to execution. He admitted to 100, pointing that his assistants were busy preparing other executions. He does not like to go into detail. He does not have time. That is why it was said that some trials took a few minutes. His field of interest extended from the officials in the Shah's regime to Kurdish insurgents, as well as drug dealers and those opposed to Khomeini.

His conscience is clear. He regrets nothing. So he said. And he did not forget to indicate that he was doing what was asked of him. His excessiveness in executions aroused the anger of his ruthless friends. After two clamorous years, he was asked to end his mission that caused the worst harm to the image of the revolution. At the time, his picture while moving the burnt bodies of American soldiers with his stick spread in the west. These soldiers were sent by Jimmy Carter to rescue the American hostages in their country's embassy in Tehran. Khalkhali later denied rumors of his participation in cutting up the bodies. He said that Khomeini sent him to deal with the bodies according to the rules and principles.

In the last years, Khalkhali announced his support to president Khatami and the reformists. However, he did not find an excuse for regret. "It was a revolution and there was no time to think."

That was what he said. When a journalist insisted four years ago, Khalkhali reminded him that the westerners organized the Nuremberg trials and were ruthless with the Nazis. The ruthless also die. Khalkhali went to the ground, after he sent many to it.

http://english.daralhayat.com/column/11-2003/Article-20031128-230cdf99-c0a8-01ed-0030-d33ceed54b39/story.html

[NazilaFathi]

Message 1 in thread
From: Bill Schenley (straycat@ma.rr.com)
Subject: Sadeq Khalkhali's New York Times Obituary

Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
Date: 2003-11-29 03:09:06 PST

FROM: The New York Times ~
By NAZILA FATHI

Sadegh Khalkhali, the first leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Courts
in Iran after the 1979 revolution, who ordered the execution of
hundreds of people, died Wednesday. He was 77.

Mr. Khalkhali had had Parkinson's disease for a long time, his
publisher said. Mr. Khalkhali's son, Mohammad Givi Khalkhali, said his
father had died after surgery, the Islamic Republic News Agency
reported.

Mr. Khalkhali frequently sentenced defendants to death in summary
trials where he acted as both judge and prosecutor, without a jury or
defense lawyers. During his six-month tenure, he executed people he
labeled enemies of the revolution, ethnic rebels and drug smugglers.
He was forced to resign after he issued death sentences for members of
the royal family who were then in exile.

He also served as a member of Parliament from the religious city of
Qum for eight years, until 1991, when his credentials were rejected by
the watchdog Guardian Council.

In his autobiography, which was published in 2000, Mr. Khalkhali
defended his conduct in the early days of the revolution and said he
had the support and blessing of the founding father of the revolution,
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

"I killed over 500 criminals close to the royal family, hundreds of
rebels of Kurdistan, Gonbad and Khuzestan regions, and many drug
smugglers," he wrote. "I feel no regret or guilt over the executions.
Yet I think I killed little. There were many more who deserved to be
killed but I could not get my hands on them."

In his book, he named 64 people he tried in one night at Refah School,
in southern Tehran, all of whom were immediately executed on the roof
of the school. He described the summary trials of prominent pro-shah
politicians and accompanied his text with photographs of their dead
bodies, including that of Prime Minister Amir Abbass Hoveyda.

Mr. Khalkhali sided with reformist politicians after the election of
President Mohammad Khatami in 1997 but he was never embraced by the mo
vement. However, the speaker of Parliament, Mehdi Karoubi, also a
reformist, in a statement he issued on Friday, praised the judge's
performance in the early days of the revolution, the news agency
reported.
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"We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened
rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our
next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare
not speak in the open."
- Emma Goldman -

[peace2003]

From: peace2003 (peace2003@peace.com)
Subject: "Reformists" Crying for Khalkhali
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Date: 2003-11-29 09:28:00 PST
SAnei, Karubi .... and many other "reformists" are praising Khalkhali
and Crying for his death !

Such is the nature of Islam and Ayatollahs, "Reformists" (like Karubi)
who shamelessly have worked on behalf of Khamenei at any chance
(remember closing of newspapers), while promising Iranian people
freedom. These vultures feeding on Iran, will band together if they see
any danger of being driven out of power by Iranians.

http://www.radiofarda.com/transcripts/iran/2003/11/20031129_1030_1052_1442_FA.asp

[Spenta]

The Reformists are only showing their true colors.

And what about the Reformist loving New York Times obit? Was that the most airbrushed, cleaned up version of Khalakhali's genocidal career or what? Only 500 people? I like the way they quote Khalkhali's books for all their facts. Thats like running an obit for Hitler with quotes from Mein Kompf.

Karubi and the other Refomists are exactly what the massacres of the revolution and people like Khalkhali were all about. They have to make a hero out of Khalkhali, because if Khalkhali was responsible for crimes against humanity then so are they all since most of the so called Reformists were butchers of the revolution themselves!

The New York Times was the number one biggest supporter of the CIA coup back in the '50s, the biggest critic of the Shah in the 1970s, and the biggest fan of Khomeini and his gang of genocidal thugs in '78/'79! The New York Times has always ran pieces singing the praises of the IRI. After Khomeini's death, they hailed Rafsanjani as the great leader who would usher in an era of freedom and openness day and night. Then there was Khatami the philospher president they sang the praises of day and night. They still clutch to the Reformists and probably will nominate Ayatollah Ebadi the great Islamist democrat as the next great leader of this great Islamic Revolution and Islamic Republic they have been singing the praises of for the last 25 years. No other western newspaper, with the exception of the BBC, has been so unahsamedly and consistantly pro Islamic Republic as the New York Times.

[Spenta]

The True Face of Reforms

Reformists and Conservatives gather together, as always to bid farewell to one of their own, mass murdered Khlakhali!

The Reformists: Khatami Brothers, Karubi, Mohsen Armin,Abtahi, and Behzad Nabavi attend the funeral of a mass murderer responsible for crimes against humanity, Ayotallah Khalkhali the madman who stranggled cats as a kid, and sent thousands to their deaths!

[stefania]

Why does Khatami always smile????

By seeing the faces of those mullahs, they don't look Iranians..

they look like non iranians..
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