Deputy Judiciary Chief and head of Iran's Human Rights Headquarters Kazzem Qaribabadi said on Monday that Tehran is perusing prosecution of Parviz Sabeti, the former deputy chief of SAVAK, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s so-called “secret police”, for gross human rights abuses against the Iranian nation.
In a letter to the country's attorney general, Qaribabadi demanded the SAVAK chief torturer's prosecution for his complicity in human rights abuses against the people of Iran.
The official asked the attorney general "to collect evidence of crimes committed by Sabeti and to identify the victims of these crimes, and to take the necessary measures to file a complaint against him".
Sabeti and his family were spotted at the gathering of “regime change” proponents in Los Angeles in mid-February.
There is documented evidence of how undercover SAVAK agents – working directly on the orders of Sabeti – would intimidate, arrest, torture, rape and kill women during the Pahlavi dictatorship.
Responding to a question over the presence of Sabeti at the gathering, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spoeksman Nasser Kana'ani said that countries claiming to be the flag-bearers of human rights have morphed their countries into safe havens for criminals and hooligans.
“This came as no surprise that a country purportedly believed to be forerunner in protecting human rights has hosted a criminal with checkered history,” he stated.
“If we list the US government’s anti-Iran measures, it will be long and wide,” the spokesperson continued, adding, “This is another example of the US government’s enmity with the Iranian government and people.”