NCRI Official: Leaked Documents Prove Khamenei Ordered January 2026 Mass Killings

Moussa Afshar, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said leaked documents and audio recordings disclosed in Washington provide conclusive evidence of the direct role of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in ordering mass killings during the January 2026 uprising.

In a press statement issued on Tuesday, Afshar said the revelations leave the international community facing “an undeniable truth,” namely that the repression of nationwide protests was carried out under direct instructions from Khamenei’s office and was neither spontaneous nor limited to local security decisions.

Afshar said the leaked material, including a 129-page security plan issued by the so-called Tharallah Headquarters, demonstrates that the regime’s response to the uprising was a premeditated strategy aimed at preventing the overthrow of what he described as a collapsing system of rule. He said the documents show that senior authorities deliberately escalated the situation to what the regime classified as an “armed security status,” granting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps full authority to use live ammunition and heavy weapons against unarmed civilians.

According to Afshar, this decision resulted in the killing of thousands of protesters and the arrest of more than 50,000 people within a matter of days. He said the scale and coordination of the crackdown amount to systematic mass killing.

Afshar also said one of the most serious revelations in the leaked documents is the involvement of non-Iranian militias in suppressing the uprising. He alleged that IRGC-affiliated forces brought in fighters from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, and Pakistan to take part in repression operations inside Iranian cities, describing this as clear evidence that the authorities had “declared an open war on their own people.”

He added that the documents confirm the central role played by young protesters and organized resistance networks, which he said succeeded in breaking the climate of fear and confronting the state’s security apparatus. Afshar noted that this explains why the regime’s security plans focused heavily on identifying, tracking, and targeting anyone linked to the Iranian Resistance, designating them as the primary internal enemy.

Afshar further pointed to a leaked audio recording of a Tehran Security Council meeting attended by senior intelligence officials, saying it reveals deep panic among the regime’s leadership in the face of mass unrest. He said the recording shows that the authorities have no response to Iran’s social and economic crises other than violence, mass arrests, and lethal force.

Concluding his statement, Afshar said the leaked documents and command structures exposed by the Iranian Resistance constitute what he called an international indictment of Iran’s ruling leadership. He urged the international community and global human rights organisations to take legal action against senior Iranian officials and pursue accountability for crimes against humanity.