The news was followed by a communiqué of the Extraordinary Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal regarding the case. General Rahimi is also one of 10 convicts mentioned in the Memoirs of Sadeq Khalkhali (Isolation Time, Vol. 1, p.352), the first post-revolution Shari’a judge and head of the Islamic Revolutionary tribunal. General Rahimi was the last Martial Law administrator of Tehran before the fall of the monarchy. Before this position he had been the head of Iran police forces and the head of Iran’s Wrestling Federation.
His wife remembers general Rahimi as a loving husband, and hard working and loyal officer. “There was something of a Sufi dervish in his character. … His staff adored him … He enjoyed films but had little time to read. He was a very honest man with a good sense of humour, a friendly nature and a good voice too…”
