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Background on the Minister of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) |
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Sunday, 01 January 2006 |
 Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Eje'i
Born in Isfahan in 1956
Background:
1. Responsible for MOIS recruitment in 1984-85.
2. Judiciary Representative in the MOIS from 1985-1988 (Actively took part in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners).
3. In charge of Tehran's Prosecutor's office for economic affairs, 1989-90.
4. Judiciary Representative in the MOIS from 1991-94.
5. Prosecutor for Tehran's Special Tribunal for the Clergy, 1995-97.
6. Prosecutor General for Special Tribunal for the Clergy, 1998-present.
7. Responsible for Special Government Employees' Complex, 1998-2002
Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Eje'i represented the Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in the MOIS and played an active role in the arrest and execution of the Mojahedin and other dissidents in the 1980s. As the chief judge in branch three of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, Mohseni Eje'i personally sentenced to death thousands of political prisoners. He was appointed as the Acting Prosecutor in 1995 and as the Prosecutor in 1998 for the Special Tribunal for the Clergy, where, he personally took part in the sentencing, imprisonment and execution of hundreds of dissident clerics.
Mohseni Eje'i was responsible for the prosecution and execution of Mehdi Hashemi, a relative of Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, then-Khomeini's designated successor.
He also issued the fatwa for the murder of several dissidents during the "chain murders" of 1990s, in which dozens of writers, activists and dissidents were mysteriously killed. Eje'i specifically issued the fatwa for the murder of Pirouz Davani, after using him in the cold-blooded beheading of Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar. Mohseni Eje'i handed a fatwa to Mostafa Kazemi, a senior MOIS officials in which he wrote Davani had committed treason and blasphemy and must be finished off.
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