Said Emami

Said Emami ( Persian سعید امامیor Said Eslami , also Daniyal Ghavami or Mojtaba Ghavami , * 1959 in Shiraz , Iran ; † June 1999 in Tehran's Evin prison ) was deputy minister of the Iranian secret service VEVAK and accused of being the main culprit in the series of murders known as chain murders of opposition intellectuals .

Life

Said Emami was born as Daniyal Ghavami in Shiraz and grew up in a family with Iranian-Jewish roots. Before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Emami studied in the USA in Oklahoma , then worked for the Iranian embassy in Washington and returned to Iran in 1981 after the revolution . He was admitted to VEVAK in 1984 by Said Hajjarian . In December 1996 he is said to have given a speech in Hamadan / West Iran , in which he claimed, among other things, that the number of Hitler's Jewish victims was only a quarter of a million. Emami was, as Navid Kermani writes, “responsible for the dirty work inside”. The involvement of members of the Iranian secret service in the murders was officially admitted, and the trial was handed over to a military tribunal where it was negotiated in secret. According to the official version, Said Emami is said to have committed suicide by taking a depilatory product while in custody during bath time. In this secret trial, three were sentenced to death and two to life imprisonment. The appeals court changed the death penalty to 10 years imprisonment and the other sentences to short sentences.

literature

Navid Kermani, Iran, the children's revolution , Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47625-2 .
Christopher de Bellaigue: In the rose garden of the martyrs. A portrait of Iran. From the English by Sigrid Langhaeuser, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2006 (English original edition: London 2004), pp. 280-300.

Web links

Messages from the relatives of the victims ( Memento from September 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Result of the process ( memento of June 26, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 125 kB)
Analysis of the secret services ( Memento of May 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Christopher de Bellaigue: In the rose garden of the martyrs. A portrait of Iran. From the English by Sigrid Langhaeuser, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2006, pp. 283–284.

personal data
SURNAME	Emami, Said
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Deputy Minister of Intelligence of Iran
DATE OF BIRTH	1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	Shiraz
DATE OF DEATH	June 1999

[1] Christopher de Bellaigue: In the rose garden of the martyrs. A portrait of Iran. From the English by Sigrid Langhaeuser, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2006, pp. 283–284.