{"id":222531,"date":"2020-07-18T16:26:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=222531"},"modified":"2023-01-24T23:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T22:10:29","slug":"irans-regime-and-the-death-sentences-of-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/irans-regime-and-the-death-sentences-of-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime and the Death Sentences of Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_222532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222532\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Amirhossein-Moradi-Mohammad-Rajabi-Saeed-Tamjidi\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Amirhossein-Moradi-Mohammad-Rajabi-Saeed-Tamjidi.jpg\" alt=\"Iran\u2019s Regime and the Death Sentences of Protesters \" width=\"800\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Amirhossein-Moradi-Mohammad-Rajabi-Saeed-Tamjidi.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Amirhossein-Moradi-Mohammad-Rajabi-Saeed-Tamjidi-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Amirhossein-Moradi-Mohammad-Rajabi-Saeed-Tamjidi-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Amirhossein-Moradi-Mohammad-Rajabi-Saeed-Tamjidi-696x362.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammad Rajabi-Saeed Tamjidi -Amirhossein Moradi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On Thursday, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-regime-executed-2-political-prisoners-3-more-are-on-verge-of-execution\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an international campaign<\/a> forced the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Iranian regime<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">to temporarily halt<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> its death sentences for three men who participated in <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nationwide <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iran <\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">protest last November. The sentences had been upheld by <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the regime\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Supreme Court two days earlier, leading to widespread protests on social media. A Persian hashtag meaning \u201cdon\u2019t execute\u201d was reportedly used five million times and gained support<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> people from all walks of life<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, foreign lawmakers, and international human rights defenders before the judiciary responded to the pressure.<\/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><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Yet that response consisted only of a vague statement regarding the possibility of the death sentences being halted. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It expressed no actual commitment to justice, and seems tailor-made to deflect some portion of the criticism in hopes of making the issue fade from public awareness. The international community must not allow this to happen. And after more than 40 years of dealing with the same behaviors from the Iranian regime, veteran policymakers should certainly know better than to fall for its schemes.<\/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\">The <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iranian regime<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> has a very long history of this sort of thing. And <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">unfortunately,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> because of the appeasement policy, Western governments deliberately closed <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">its eyes on the regime\u2019s human rights violations<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Since the 1980s, they have been eager to embrace any <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of the regime\u2019s<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">so-called \u201cmoderate\u201d <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">official or policy<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> This impulse was on clear display in 2013, when <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> regime\u2019s <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">apologists<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> portra<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">yed the \u201cselection\u201d <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of Hassan Rouhani<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> as the regime\u2019s president <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was as a <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">great <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">opportunity and change.\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\">Rouhani <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">became the regime\u2019s president<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> amidst <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a number of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> high-minded promises regarding freedom for political prisoners, fewer restrictions on media and the internet, and more peaceful relations with the country\u2019s neighbors and adversaries. Now, more than three years after his 2017 \u201cre-<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">election,\u201d there has been no progress toward any of these supposed goals. In fact, Iran\u2019s human rights situation has arguably gotten worse, especially in the wake of activist uprisings that have normalized the demand for a real alternative to avowed hardliners and faux reformists.<\/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\">It goes without saying that the people are unaffected by the judiciary\u2019s statement on recent death sentences. After all, many of them have borne direct witness to the extent of Tehran\u2019s bloodlust where pro-democracy activism is concerned. The regime\u2019s unwillingness to compromise with such activists was apparent during the first uprising at the beginning of 2018, which led to dozens of participants being shot dead and several being tortured to death while detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/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\">But the brutality became absolutely undeniable less than two years later, with the November uprising that has now been used to justify capital punishment for Amirhossein Moradi, Mohammad <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rajabi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and Saeed <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tamjidi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. They were not the first to be handed such a sentence and they will most likely not be the last. But even if everyone who is currently detained in connection with the uprising is spared from the hangman\u2019s noose, it will have little impact on the final death toll among peaceful protesters. Iran\u2019s leading opposition group, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (PMOI\/MEK)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, has reported that 1,500 people were killed, mostly by the IRGC, during just several days\u2019 protests.<\/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\">This is another area of the regime\u2019s human rights record in which it is relying heavily upon Western credulity in the face of coordinated disinformation. At the beginning of June, the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iranian parliament\u2019s National Security and Foreign Affairs Committee released its first official estimate of the death toll, insisting that only 230 people had died<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, while shifting the blame on a \u201cthird party\u201d who shot and killed many of them.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">his was a desperate move by the regime, using the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/coronavirus-in-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 pandemic<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, to downplay its crime and <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">somehow quell the restive Iranian society.\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\">The 1,500-person estimate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MEK<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> was ultimately confirmed both by Reuters News Agency and the US State Department. But for more than six months, Tehran simply rejected all foreign and independent estimates, then provided no explanation for why it had taken so long to calculate a lower death toll than those provided by both domestic and foreign sources.\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\">This penchant for manipulation is something that <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">international community<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> must keep <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mind as they consider how to respond to the latest developments in the case of Moradi, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rajabi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Tamjidi<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The same can be said of any other human rights issues that come under international scrutiny in the near future. And there are tremendously many that could.<\/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\">There are also larger lessons to be learned, beyond just avoiding the assumption that Tehran is being sincere when it appears to bend to pressure from human rights activists. That assumption is based on a fantasy about the regime\u2019s potential for internal reform, which has been roundly rejected by the Iranian people, especially in the past few years<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The Iranian resistance has<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> been warning for years against Western policies that anticipate such reform and provide concessions in hopes of facilitating it.<\/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\">Those protest<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">er<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s\u2019 willingness to risk their lives for the democratic cause ought to inspire shame in Western policymakers who seem unwilling to so much as risk the status quo in Iranian relations. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As long as<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> they remain <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">so <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">wary of a truly assertive strategy for dealing with Tehran\u2019s abuses, they will only amplify the threats already facing the Iranian people<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the organized Resistance movement<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">world<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, an international campaign forced the Iranian regime to temporarily halt its death sentences for three men who participated in the nationwide Iran protest last November. 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