Iran’s legacy of torture and mass execution persists

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Over the years, human rights advocates from the United Nations to Amnesty International have compiled evidence that Iran’s governing regime has engaged in the torture and mass execution of its political prisoners and dissidents.

Iran, of course, denies the charges. But it’s a subject that continues to reverberate today as tensions between the United States and Tehran simmer with new sanctions, human rights concerns and nuclear ambitions.

In this episode of Iran: The Untold Story we explore the legacy of Iran’s human rights abuses, particularly the executions of thousands of political prisoners in the dark days of the summer of 1988.

Tahar Boumedra, the former UN human rights chief in Iraq, says there is “overwhelming” evidence that Iran engaged in a crime against humanity during the 1988 slaughter.

Iran: The Untold Story is a 10-week sponsored miniseries that examines some of the under-reported challenges in the U.S.- Iran relationship and whether regime change in Tehran is possible without military intervention. The series, brought to you by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities, offers expert analysis from the front lines of the war on terror, the fight against nuclear proliferation and the effort to investigate and prevent human rights abuses inside Iran.