The three-person committee in charge of making those determinations became known among survivors as the “death committee.” In his memoirs, Montazeri published two letters he had written to Ayatollah Khomeini, as well as the transcript of a meeting Montazeri had with Nayyeri, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who was the representative of Ministry of Intelligence in the committee, Eshraghi, and his deputy Ebrahim Raeesi to protest the ongoing prison executions.