Majid Jamali Fashi
Majid Jamali Fashi | |
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مجید جمالی فشی | |
Born | Majid Jamali Fashi 1978 Tehran, Iran |
Died | May 15, 2012 Tehran, Iran |
Occupation(s) | Martial artist, Sports coach |
Criminal charges | Assassination of nuclear scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi and espionage for Israel |
Criminal penalty | Execution by hanging |
Criminal status | Executed |
Majid Jamali Fashi (1978 in Tehran - May 15, 2012 in Tehran) was an Iranian martial artist, the holder of a world bronze medal in kickboxing, and was accused of assassinating Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi on the orders of Israel. He was executed after the trial.[1][2]
In a televised confession on the Islamic Republic of Iran Television, Majid Jamali Fashi explained in detail how he cooperated with the Mossad and how he had received training in Israel, but there were many contradictions in his confessions.[1]
Sporting career
[edit]Jamali Fashi also won the bronze medal of the 2009 Pankration World Cup as a freestyle martial artist[3] and was the 3rd level trainer of the kickboxing style of the Iran Martial Sports Federation.[4] Nasim News has introduced Majid Jamali Fashi as a martial artist who started his sport with kickboxing in Karaj, then entered the field of pankration and became a member of the Iranian national team. In 2009, he competed in Baku at -85 kg and won a bronze medal.[5]
WikiLeaks
[edit]His arrest was due to the release of WikiLeaks documents (documents of the American Embassy in Baku). The Times newspaper in London, wrote in a report that the WikiLeaks documents caused Iranian government to arrest Majid Jamali Fashi. According to the report of this newspaper, a martial arts champion told the American diplomat that the Iranian government forces martial arts instructors to train the IRGC and Basij personnels and even participate in the suppression of opposition protests.[6][7] WikiLeaks explained that in the published document, there is no mention of Israel and participation in the assassination of Iranian scientists.[8] BBC also wrote that Jamali Fashi intends to immigrate to the United States after the protests of the Iranian Green Movement, so he speaks against the Islamic Republic of Iran at the American Embassy in Baku, and the publication of these words on WikiLeaks will lead to his arrest.[1]
Television confessions
[edit]On December 11, 2010, the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran announced that it had succeeded in arresting the perpetrator of the bombing and assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi. In this connection, the televised confessions of "Majid Jamali Fashi" were aired on Iran Radio and Television. In the interview of this televised confessions, Majid Jamali Fashi makes a confession against himself.[9] Majid Jamali Fashi claims that he has received the training required for this assassination during a trip to Israel and courses under the supervision of Mossad agents.[10][11] In another part of his televised confession, he claims that he was given training in a military barracks near the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, such as "pursuing and escaping, chasing a car, gathering information from a specific place, and sticking a bomb under the car."[12]
Some analysts of Israel's security affairs in the media of that country, by examining the details of Majid Jamali Fashi's televised confessions, have rejected his statements.[13]
Following the broadcast of Majid Jamali Fashi's confessions on Iranian TV, Time magazine wrote: "Iran's Ministry of Intelligence has destroyed a team equipped and trained by the Mossad. Senior European security officials have confirmed that the details of Majid Jamali Fashi's confession about the January 2010 motorcycle assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi were correct. Western intelligence officials have declared a third country responsible for leaking this team."[14]
Alleging that the confessions are false
[edit]After reviewing the interview of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi's wife Mansooreh Karami with Masih Alinejad, Iraj Mesdaghi believes that the intelligence officers wrote the murder scenario shot by shot from her statements during the numerous meetings they had with Mansooreh Karami before the televised confessions was broadcast; For example, before broadcasting the defendant's television confessions, they asked Mansooreh Karami for details, or in another place where the defendant's confessions about Ali-Mohammadi and his wife's path were the exact opposite of what happened, the scriptwriters in the Ministry of Intelligence change the whole story, and finally in the defendant's television confessions and in the explanation he gave in the court, gave a different story and did not say anything about meeting Dr. Ali-Mohammadi and his wife two days before the assassination.[15]
Mesdaghi also reminds that "the script of Majid Jamali Fashi begins after the assassination of Majid Shahriari; That is, from November 29, 2010 to January 11, 2011, when Majid Jamali Fashi's television confession will be broadcast." Mesdaghi cites Masih Alinejad's interview with Mansooreh Karami and says, Mansooreh Karami criticized Masih Alinejad in the first interview and said that no one was following up on her case, but in the next interview, she says, "we were not told anything at that time. After the assassination of Dr. Shahriari, the university professor who was assassinated, the officials came to us and reported." In addition, Mesdaghi considers the question and answer related to Shahriari's assassination in the court as another reason for faking the television confession after Shahriari's assassination. Mesdaghi asks, "If the matter goes back to before this date, the security authorities should answer the question why Shahriari was not protected. Those who knew that he was going to be assassinated and the accused had also confessed about the training he had received about the assassination." In the following, Mesdaghi also shows other cases of contradiction in the television confession.[15]
In 2019, it became clear that all those who were arrested after Jamali Fashi in this case (including Maziar Ebrahimi) were released some time later.[1]
Forgery of Israeli passport on TV
[edit]After the execution of Majid Jamali Fashi, the image of an Israeli passport with Majid Jamali Fashi's photo was shown on the 20:30 news program of the Islamic Republic of Iran TV. According to Fereshteh Ghazi, the photoshopped passport shown on the Iranian TV is the image of the passport that is easily available on the Wikipedia site, and the photoshoppers did not even bother to change the place of the stamps.[16] Except for the place of the stamps, the date of issuance, expiration, month and year of birth of Jamali Fashi's passport that was shown on the Iranian TV is also the same as the sample of the Israeli passport available on Wikipedia.[1]
According to the report of The Times newspaper, the Israeli passport attributed to Majid Jamali Fashi had several technical problems and shows that the passport was forged by novices. The first drawback of this passport is the personal photo in which Majid Jamali Fashi looks at a point outside the camera frame, and such a photo will never be accepted for passport issuance. On the other hand, the passport issuance date mentioned is November 2003, that is, when Majid Jamali Fashi was only fifteen years old (contrary to the source's claim, Jamali Fashi's age is 25 years old on the mentioned date), but the opaque photo of Majid Jamali Fashi in this fake passport is relatively looks new and not a picture of a fifteen-year-old boy.[17]
Execution
[edit]Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged by order of the judge Abolqasem Salavati on Tuesday morning, May 15, 2012.[18][19][20][21]
According to Massoud Ali-Mohammadi's wife, Majid Jamali Fashi family was not present at the execution ceremony and the only witness to the execution was the husband of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi's sister, who said that Majid did not say a word, went to the gallows and was executed. However, the 20:30 news program of the Islamic Republic of Iran Television, broadcast new confessions of Majid Jamali Fashi and claimed that he made these confessions moments before his execution.[16][22]
Maziar Ebrahimi, who had accepted the assassination of nuclear scientists in his forced confessions on television, in 2019, said about the execution of Jamali Fashi, that several of those who were in the cells next to Majid Jamali Fashi at prison, they narrated to him that on the night when Jamali Fashi was taken to be executed, he shouted loudly at the prison officers and the conversations have been exchanged between them: "Jamali Fashi tells the agents that you promised me that you would tell them that I am cooperating with you and that you will appreciate me when the main murderer is arrested; But in response to Jamali Fashi, they say no, Haji's opinion has changed and he has decided not to say this, and the martyr's wife also went to the sir (they mean Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran) and the sir said to execute you."[23]
See also
[edit]- Operations attributed to Israel in Iran
- Israel and the nuclear program of Iran
- Timeline of the nuclear program of Iran
- Reactions in Iran to the Gaza War (2008-2009)
- December 2008 air strikes in the Gaza Strip
- The law countering the hostile actions of the Zionist regime against peace and security
- Down with Israel
- Israel won't exist in 25 years
- Operation Tyre
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "آزادی متهمان به قتل دانشمندان هستهای، معجزه یا بیگناهی؟" [The release of those accused of murdering nuclear scientists, a miracle or innocence?]. BBC News فارسی (in Persian). Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "ایران اعترافات جعلی در پرونده "ترور دانشمندان هستهای" را تأیید کرد؛ سکوت دولت روحانی دربارهٔ اعدام جمالی فشی" [Iran confirmed the fake confessions in the "assassination of nuclear scientists" case; The silence of the Rouhani government regarding the execution of Jamali Fashi] (in Persian). 19 August 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "عنوان سومی پانكريشن ايران در جام جهانی" [The third title of Pankration of Iran in the World Cup] (in Persian). Archived from the original on 2009-07-10. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "مربیان سبک اسپورت کیک بوکسینگ" [Kickboxing sports trainers] (in Persian). Archived from the original on 2011-01-17. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "جزئیات سابقه ورزشی قاتل شهید علیمحمدی" [Details of the sports history of the killer of martyr Ali-Mohammadi] (in Persian). Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "Wikileaks May Have Led Iran to Execution of "Israeli Spy"" [ویکی لیکس ممکن است ایران را به اعدام «جاسوس اسرائیل» کشانده باشد]. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "WikiLeaks cable 'may have led Tehran to hang kick boxer for scientist's murder'" [سرنخهای ویکی لیکس ممکن است تهران را به دار آویختن کیک بوکسور به جرم قتل دانشمند سوق دهد]. The Times. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "ویکیلیکس: در اعدام ایرانی متهم به ترور نقشی نداشتیم" [WikiLeaks: We had no role in the execution of an Iranian accused of assassination]. رادیو فردا (in Persian). 18 May 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "موساد در ایران؛ حفره یا تونل اطلاعاتی؟" [Mossad in Iran; Information hole or tunnel?] (in Persian). 13 January 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "Iranian 'Mossad agent': I was trained in Israel" [«عامل موساد» ایرانی: در اسرائیل آموزش دیدم]. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "عوامل اصلی ترور شهید علیمحمدی دستگیر شدند / موساد عامل اصلی" [The main agents of the assassination of martyr Alimohammadi were arrested / Mossad is the main agent] (in Persian). 10 January 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "اظهارات عامل اصلی ترور علیمحمدی" [Statements of the main agent of Alimohammadi's assassination] (in Persian). Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "بازتاب وسیع خبر "شکار حلقه موساد" در مطبوعات اسرائیل" [Wide coverage of the "Hunting the Mossad Ring" news in the Israeli press] (in Persian). 11 January 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "Report: Israel's Mossad scales back covert operations in Iran" [گزارش: موساد اسرائیل عملیات مخفیانه در ایران را کاهش میدهد] (in Persian). Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ a b "نقش رژیم در "قتلهای زنجیرهای متخصصان" ایرانی، ایرج مصداقی (بخش دوم)" [The role of the regime in the "chain murders of experts" in Iran, Iraj Mesdaghi (part two)] (in Persian). Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ a b "حقوق بشر و حق حیات گزینشی است!" [Human rights and the right to life are optional!] (in Persian). 24 May 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "پرونده جمالی فشی؛ گافهای یک سناریوی امنیتی" [Jamali Fashi's case; Gaffes of a security scenario] (in Persian). Archived from the original on 2017-08-07. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "عامل ترور دانشمند هستهای دار زده شد" [The perpetrator of the assassination of the nuclear scientist was hanged] (in Persian). Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "قاتل فیزیکدان ایرانی اعدام شد" [The murderer of the Iranian physicist was executed] (in Persian). 15 May 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "مجید جمالی فشی اعدام شد" [Majid Jamali Fashi was executed] (in Persian). 15 May 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "مجید جمالی فشی، محکوم در پرونده ترور دانشمند هستهای، اعدام شد" [Majid Jamali Fashi, convicted in the case of the assassination of a nuclear scientist, was executed]. رادیو فردا (in Persian). 15 May 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "فیلم / مصاحبه با قاتل شهید علیمحمدی" [Film / interview with the murderer of martyr Ali-Mohammadi] (in Persian). 11 January 2017. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ "متهمان پرونده هستهای: به محمود صادقی دروغ گفتهاند، مجید جمالیفشی را بیگناه اعدام کردند" [The defendants in the nuclear case: they lied to Mahmoud Sadeghi, Majid Jamali Fashi was executed innocently] (in Persian). Retrieved 6 November 2024.
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