Claim: Ruhollah Hosseinian stated that Saeed Emami was innocent of the Chain Murders in 1978, claiming that they were the work of President Khafami's reformists.
Evidence: The Chain murders of Iran (Persian:قتل‌های زنجیره‌ای), or Serial murders of Iran, were a series of 1988–98 murders and disappearances of certain Iranian dissident intellectuals who had been critical of the Islamic Republic system.