
Seyed Massoud Jazayeri
- Member of the Revolutionary Committees (0000)
- Spokesperson and cultural deputy of the General Staff of Armed forces, National (0000)
- Human Rights Violation: Justification and participation in the suppression of protests and threatening protesters inside and outside the country (0000) read more
- Institution
- General Staff of the Armed Forces
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of assembly, Right to freedom of expression, Right to life
- Description
Massoud Jazayeri, as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Cultural Affairs of the Armed Forces, has played an effective role in justifying and intensifying the repression of protesters against the results of the 2009 elections. On 13 September, 2009, Jazayeri downplayed the "mistake of several government employees" at the Kahrizak Detention Center, which resulted in the deaths of at least five detainees under torture and called for an increase in the broadcast of the forced confessions of protesters.
In the same year, in an interview with the Kayhan newspaper, Jazayeri called for the passage of penalties for cooperation and interview with Persian-language media based abroad. He also threatened protesters outside Iran that they will be identified and "dealt with at the right time" and openly called for the crackdown on foreign media and the domestic press.
- Sources
Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces opposes the closed Courts, Khabaronline, 13 September, 2009
'Green Movement' Overseas supporters were Threatened by Military, BBC Persian, 5 November, 2009
Mass, regular and daily torture of detainees in Kahrizak Camp, Hrana, 25 July, 2009
Kahrizak case: Indictment full text, Justice for Iran, October 2010
https://justice4iran.org/persian/documents/kahrizak-2/
- Human Rights Violation: Calling for an increase in illegal house arrests and the execution of protesters (0000) read more
- Institution
- General Staff of the Armed Forces
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom of expression, Right to liberty and security of person, Right to life
- Description
In a conversation with Fars News Agency on December 30, 2013, Massoud Jazayeri called for the tightening of house arrests of opposition figures. On December 26, 2016, Massoud Jazayeri called for harsher punishment for what he called "the traitor leaders of the 2009 sedition" and "their followers and supporters."
Two protesting presidential candidates in 2009, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, along with their wives Fatemeh Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard, who are referred to in the literature of the Islamic Republic as "leaders of sedition", were arrested by security agents in early March 2010 without trials were put under house arrest ever since.
- Sources
In a conversation with Fars News Agency on December 30, 2013, Massoud Jazayeri called for the tightening of house arrests of opposition figures. On December 26, 2016, Massoud Jazayeri called for harsher punishment for what he called "the traitor leaders of the 2009 sedition" and "their followers and supporters."
Two protesting presidential candidates in 2009, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, along with their wives Fatemeh Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard, who are referred to in the literature of the Islamic Republic as "leaders of sedition", were arrested by security agents in early March 2010 without trials were put under house arrest ever since.
Sources:
Jazayeri calls for house arrest of "two remaining leaders of sedition", Radio Farda, 2 July, 2016
The actions of the traitor leaders of the sedition of 2009 deserve capital punishment, Fars News Agency, 26 January, 2017
House arrest of Green Movement leaders; A case that will not be closed, BBC Farsi, 20 February, 2017
https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-39018141
- Human Rights Violation: Justification and participation in the suppression of protests (0000) read more
- Institution
- General Staff of the Armed Forces
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to life
- Description
Massoud Jazayeri, Senior Spokesman of the Armed Forces and Cultural Deputy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces on 1 December, 2017, while defending the Armed Forces in cracking down on protesters that killed at least 25 people, called the protesters rioters and dependent on foreign countries and called for intensified repression. The January 2018 protests were nationwide protests against inflation and corruption, which began on 27 January, 2017 in Mashhad and several cities in Khorasan Province and quickly spread throughout Iran, with harsher anti-government slogans.
- Sources
Sardar Jazayeri: We will retaliate against American sedition, Tasnim, 1 December, 2017
Sardar Jazayeri: Officials who did little in the face of the enemy's all-out war must be held accountable, Tasnim, 3 December, 2017
Spokesman for the Judiciary 25 people were killed in the recent unrest, Anatolia News Agency, 2017
- Human Rights Violation: Justification and participation in the suppression of protests and threatening protesters inside and outside the country (0000) read more
- Head of IRGC Public Relation and Spokesperson, National (1980’s)
- Head of the IRGC legal department, National (Unknown)
- Head of the IRGC political department, National (Unknown)
- Head of the IRGC cultural department, National (Unknown)
- Head of the Defence Propaganda Office of General Staff of Armed Forces, National (Unknown - November 2007)
- Cultural advisor to the Joint Chief of Staff of Armed forces, National (0000 - present)
On 13 April, 2011, the European Union placed seventeen Iranian officials, including Massoud Jazayeri, on the human rights sanctions list for their role in widespread and gross violations of the rights of Iranian citizens. The decision bans Jazayeri from entering the bloc and confiscates all of his assets in Europe. "Massoud Jazayeri, as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, has played an active role in suppressing the protests," the EU statement said.