“After my second letter of protest [to Ayatollah Khomeini], there was no change and [the executions] continued,” Montazeri recounts. “On August 15, 1988, I met with Mr. Nayyeri, who was the religious judge in Evin, Mr. Eshraghi who was the prosecutor, and Mr. Pourmohammadi who was the representative of the Ministry of Information. I told them that they should stop the executions during the month of Moharram. Mr. Nayyeri responded: ‘We have so far executed seven-hundred and fifty people in Tehran, and we have identified another two-hundred people. Allow us to get rid of them and then we’ll listen to you…!’”
