{"id":220182,"date":"2020-06-09T18:43:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=220182"},"modified":"2023-01-24T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T07:36:22","slug":"iran-the-decision-to-close-dr-kazem-rajavis-assassination-case-justifies-crime-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iran-the-decision-to-close-dr-kazem-rajavis-assassination-case-justifies-crime-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: The Decision to Close Dr. Kazem Rajavi\u2019s Assassination Case Justifies Crime Against Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220184\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dr.-Kazem-Rajavi\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dr.-Kazem-Rajavi.jpg\" alt=\"Iran: The decision to Close Dr. Kazem Rajavi\u2019s assassination case justifies crime against humanity \" width=\"800\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dr.-Kazem-Rajavi.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dr.-Kazem-Rajavi-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dr.-Kazem-Rajavi-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Dr.-Kazem-Rajavi-696x365.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Kazem Rajavi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n a letter to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/alternative\" rel=\"noopener\">National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/the-national-council-resistance-iran-ncri\" rel=\"noopener\">NCRI<\/a>)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Swiss government<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">announced that the assassination case of Professor Kazem\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rajavi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">NCRI\u2019s representative in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Switzerland, who was gunned down by the Iranian regime\u2019s terrorists,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">will be\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">closed due to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">statute<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of limitation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0This action\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">will\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">only embolden the terrorist\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">regime ruling\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iran and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0justif<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">y<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">its crimes against\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">humanity<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In his letter, the Prosecutor for Vaud Province in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Switzerland had<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0declared that consistent with Swiss law, their decision of closing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Prof<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rajavi&#8217;s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">case, \u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cannot be appealed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(Article 319 of item 3CPP). While naming 14 terrorist<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0who have been prosecuted for their role in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Prof<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rajavi&#8217;s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">assassination<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0 the Prosecutor has refrained from mentioning the names of the Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, then-Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, and Hassan Rouhani, then-Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">regime\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0current president, who commissioned and ordered the assassination.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A crime against humanity\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cannot be subjected to the statute of limitations<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">perpetrators<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of crimes against humanity during the World War\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">II<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0are still being prosecuted.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Not holding criminals and terrorists to account is\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">construed as\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a license to kill<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The Iranian regime has never stopped its terrorism in Europe. The regime\u2019s 2018 bomb plot against the NCRI\u2019s annual \u201cFree Iran\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0rally,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in which\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hundreds of dignitaries<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">politicians and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ens of thousands of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0supporters of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a free Iran<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0from Europe, including the Switzerland, and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">United States participated<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0confirms this.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In this regard, the Iranian Resistance in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/protesting-in-strongest-terms-against-the-swiss-government-for-closing-the-file-on-the-murderers-of-prof-kazem-rajavi\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">statement declared<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0it\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">strongly protests and condemns the closure of the file on the assassination of Prof. Kazem Rajavi. It considers this decision an abject political deal\u00a0similar to\u00a0facilitating two of the arrested killers in France on December 21, 1993, escape justice. Terrorism and crime against humanity perpetrated relentlessly by the religious fascism ruling Iran cannot be subject to the statute of limitations. Seven bloodbaths and massacres against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI \/ MEK)<\/a> in camps Ashraf and Liberty (in Iraq), the arrest of the terrorist\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Assadollah<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Assadi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0who planned to bomb the grand gathering of Iranians on June 30, 2018, in France, and the expulsion of the regime\u2019s ambassador and diplomat terrorists from Albania all attest to this reality.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cInvoking the statute of limitations regarding the file on the murder of Prof. Kazem Rajavi, a by-product of much delay and postponement amounts to nothing but preventing justice from being served and appeasing the mullahs and their unbridled terrorism. But the Iranian people will neither forgive nor forget,\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0NCRI added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo\" class=\" wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Prof<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rajavi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was gunned down on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iranprobe.com\/terrorism\/iranian-opponents\/kazem-rajavi,-the-great-advocate-of-human-rights,-assassinated-in-switzerland\/514-kazem-rajavi,-the-great-advocate-of-human-rights,-assassinated-in-switzerland.html\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 1990<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in broad daylight by several agents of the Iranian regime\u2019s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iranprobe.com\/terrorism\/iranian-opponents\/kazem-rajavi,-the-great-advocate-of-human-rights,-assassinated-in-switzerland\/514-kazem-rajavi,-the-great-advocate-of-human-rights,-assassinated-in-switzerland.html\" rel=\"noopener\">MOIS<\/a>) as he was driving to his home in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Coppet<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, a village near Geneva.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Prof.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rajavi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was Iran\u2019s first ambassador to the UN European headquarters after the 1979 revolution but joined the Iranian Resistance\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in 1981 following the regime\u2019s clear violation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of human rights and the beginning of the Resistance movement against the mullahs\u2019 regime. Since then, until the last day of his life, he tire<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lessly defended human rights values and was the voice of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tortured political prisoners and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iranian Resistance\u2019s martyrs in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0international\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">arena<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. His famous saying\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">wa<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s: \u201cWe will write the history of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">h<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">uman\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">r<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ights with our blood,\u201d and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0so<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0he did.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As the Iranian Resistance has said,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the Swiss Government and Judiciary\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">must\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">keep open\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Prof.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rajavi\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0file.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">International arrest warrants must be issued for those who ordered and perpetrated this terrorist murder. Justice must be carried out.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to the National Council of Resistance of Iran&nbsp;(NCRI),&nbsp;The Swiss government&nbsp;announced that the assassination case of Professor Kazem&nbsp;Rajavi,&nbsp;the&nbsp;NCRI&rsquo;s representative in&nbsp;Switzerland, who was gunned down by the Iranian regime&rsquo;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":220184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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