Tehran Prosecutor General Saeed Mortazavi (2nd L) attends the execution by hanging of Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar in Tehran August 2, 2007. -- DayLife
Saeed Mortazavi, who has reportedly been given the job of pursuing Iranian democracy protesters through the courts, is a formidable hardliner with a decade-long track record of cracking down on reformists.
As prosecutor-general of Tehran since 2003 and as a judge before that, he has earned the nickname "the butcher of the press" for ordering the closure of more than 100 newspapers, journals and websites suspected of being hostile to the establishment.
He has also led the clampdown on Islamic morality in Tehran that has seen women arrested for immodest clothing.
Read more on the "Torturer of Tehran" at TimesOnline.uk.
In 2005, The New York Times reported that the administration was investigating whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the hostage-taker pictured second from the right, with a blindfolded American, when the embassy was seized in 1979. I hope they also took a closer look at the hostage-taker on the far right.
Saeed Mortazavi, the Torturer of Tehran.
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