Dokument #1326713
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Information on a political organization by
the name of Shahin Enghelab is not available to the IRBDC. In the
first years of the revolution, Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali was
referred to as the "hanging judge" or the "roving executioner". [
Ervand Abrahamian, Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin,
(London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 1989), pp. 59, 67.] On 20 June
1981, in response to demonstrations against the regime, he declared
that "the courts had the sacred duty to shoot at least 50
troublemakers a day". [ Abrahamian, p. 67.] Khalkhali had earlier
promised death to every member of the Shah's family, and, according
to Dilip Hiro, had been responsible for helping to revive the
Fedaiyan-e Islam. [ Dilip Hiro, Iran Under the Ayatollahs,
(New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987), p. 113.] Hiro asserts
that the members of the Fedaiyan-e Islam were to carry out the
assassinations of the Shah's family. [ Ibid. This is not, however,
corroborated by other sources.]
Hiro further asserts that the "Fedaiyan-e Islam, one of the oldest
militant organisations, has been affected minimally by the onset of
the Islamic revolution. It continues to exist as a shadowy
organisation." [ Hiro, p. 243.]
In 1980, Ayatollah Khalkhali was given
responsibility for solving the drug problem in Iran, and he awarded
capital punishment to drug dealers, ordering the execution of
approximately 200 drug traffickers between 21 May and 18 July 1980.
[ Hiro, p. 256.] Khalkhali retained his seat on the Qom (religious
body) in 1984 Majlis elections. [ Ibid.]
Information linking the Fedaiyan-e Islam to
an organization called Shahin Enghelab is not available to the
IRBDC at this time. Enghelab means "revolution" in Persian, and
Shahin is a proper name. Fedaiyan-e Islam can be translated as
"self sanctifiers of Islam". [ Hiro, p. 32.]