Iran's supreme leader didn't spare women and children when he ordered the industrial slaughter of 30,000 prisoners during a two-month purge of terror.
Ayatollah Khomeini - Iran's supreme leader from 1979 until his death in 1989 - issued a Fatwa in 1988 saying political prisoners who were steadfast in their support for rival parties were "waging war on God and are condemned to execution.”
The Fatwa - a religious decree issued by senior Muslim clerics - was similar to the one issued against British-Indian author Salman Rushdie in 1989.
