Cleric says only way to stop protests is to repeat 1988 massacre of political prisoners

Hojatalol Islam Hamid Rohani said that the measures taken in 1988 should be repeated in these seditions.

In an interview with a student publication he referred to the executions in 1988 and said, "The events of 1988 were that the Monageqhin (PMOI members) who were in prison repented in a tactical fashion. Imam (Khomeini) said that those who do not repent (have to die) and have to be trialed and punished and those executions ended those seditions. I think that in the recent seditions, if such a decisive, serious and revolutionary measure is not taken, this problem will continue. (Aftab Website – Feb. 24, 2010)