Nematollah Nassiri, the director of SAVAK

The news of the execution of General Nasiri, along with three other high ranking military officials, is also announced in a communiqué of the Special Islamic Tribunal (Kayhan daily, 17 February 1979) General Nasiri is also mentioned in the Memoirs of Ayatollah Khalkhali, the first post-revolution religious judge and head of the Islamic Revolutionary Tribunals: