Masoud Safdari as Interrogator of the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Organization has directly involved in serious and widespread human rights violation in Iran particularly violation of right to freedom, right to protest and prisoner’s rights. Following November 2019 Iranian Protests, he has been the interrogator of the detainees protesters and should be accountable for his human right violation actions. In March 2021 United States has placed Masoud Safdari on its human rights sanction list. According to the State department of USA, he has been placed on sanction list because of his participation in “gross human rights violation of protesters in 2019 and 2020 in Iran”.
Right to protest, rights of prisoners, and tortureMasoud Safdari, as an interrogator of the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Organization, has been directly involved in serious and gross violations of the rights of prisoners, especially protesters detained during the November 2019 nationwide protests in Iran.
So far, a number of victims of human rights abuses and protesters have been detained, interrogated by him, and subjected to mental and physical harassment. They have confirmed his identity and testified about his human rights abuses.
According to eyewitness accounts published by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the protesters detained during the November 2019 nationwide protests were transferred to places where Masoud Safdari beat and interrogated them. According to witnesses, the “Yad-e Yaran Basij Resistance Base” on Argentina Street in Tehran was one of the places where Massoud Safdari was identified. According to witnesses, Masoud Safadri was called “Sattar” by his colleagues.
One of the people who was interrogated by Massoud Safdari after his arrest testified that he was seen during the interrogation stage and was beaten by him. According to another eyewitness, “While I was closing my business premises on Enghelab Street to go home, I was arrested by plainclothes (November 2019) and beaten from the beginning. In addition to me, two or three other people were arrested and were in the car. After being transferred to an unknown location, this person [Masoud Safdari] confronted us with threats and obscenities. He violently forced us to admit that we were “rioters”. I and about 7 other people were handed over to the IRGC detention center in Evin.”
Another person testified about the role of Massoud Safdari: “The composition of the forces present at the scene of the arrest and then interrogation was a combination of plainclothes forces, Basij forces and the IRGC. Eventually, when we were handed over to the IRGC, he was clearly affiliated with this institution. Although we did not see him anywhere else, such as in the IRGC intelligence detention center, the case-making that he did against us shaped the course of our case.”
According to eyewitness accounts, Massoud Safdari was also directly involved in receiving and broadcasting forced confessions on television from the detainees. According to this eyewitness, who also had a history of imprisonment, Safdari was present during the recording of the video of his forced confessions. “I remember his face very well, he was a bad man who, along with his colleagues, managed the video recording scene by threatening and intimidating me,” the prisoner said.
According to another witness, Massoud Safdari was also seen in a detention center in Tehran. According to this witness, he was forced by Safdari to make a televised confession in a place in the Afsarieh area of Tehran known as “1A”: “Sattar did not give up on me after I gave in to forced confessions, and for a while he harassed my family with threats and phone insults.”

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