Call To Investigate Iran’s 1980s ‘Genocide’ A Step Toward Ending ‘Cycle Of Impunity’

By Kian Sharifi

(RFE/RL) -- A UN expert has accused Iran of committing genocide in the 1980s, when thousands of political prisoners as well as members of religious and ethnic minorities were executed.

Javaid Rehman, the UN's special rapporteur on the rights situation in Iran, said in a July 22*report*that the summary and...