ON THE WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY Maryam Rajavi: The Nonstop Cycle of Executions in Iran Is Indispensable to Keeping the Mullahs' Religious Tyranny in Power 10/10/2017 2:47:50 PM National Council of Resistance of Iran In a message on the World Day against the Death Penalty, Mrs.  Maryam Rajavi  , the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, paid tribute to 120,000  executed political prisoners  , including the 30,000 killed in the 1988 massacre. She said, “The Iranian Resistance espouses the abolition of the death penalty in Iran after the overthrow of the clerical regime and rejects the inhuman punishment of retribution as being against the spirit of mercy and compassion in Islam.” She once again called on Western governments to make their commercial and diplomatic relations with the mullahs’ religious dictatorship contingent on end to torture and executions. She also urged the  United Nations...