Between January 1980 and June 1981, when Bani-Sadr was impeached, at least 900 executions took place, for everything from drug and sexual offenses to “corruption on earth”, from plotting counter-revolution and spying for Israel to membership in opposition groups. In the ensuing 12 months Amnesty International documented 2,946 executions, with several thousand more killed in the next two years according to the anti-government guerilla People’s Mujahedin of homeland.