Hussein-Ali Montazeri named Raisi as one of the four persons involved in the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners. Other persons were Morteza Eshraghi (Prosecutor of Tehran), Hossein-Ali Nayeri (Judge) and Mostafa Pourmohammadi (MOI representative in Evin). Names of first two persons are mentioned in Khomeini’s order. Pourmohammadi has denied his role but Raisi has not commented publicly on the matter yet. Due to the involvement of this prosecution committee in thousands of executions, it has been informally called the ‘death committee’.