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Pictures of some victims of 1988 Massacre in Iran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The United Nations General Assembly will be held in September. One of the current important global topics, is Iran. <\/span>As the Middle East and the international community suffer from terrorism and <\/span>human rights abuses, <\/span>forming <\/span>a united front against the mullahs\u2019 regime, the largest state sponsor of terrorism and <\/span>the <\/span>record holder of execution per capita, is urgent.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The regime is widely recognized as the world\u2019s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and this is obviously a strong incentive for multilateral action, especially among those <\/span>who risk becoming targets of that terrorism. <\/span>M<\/span>uch of <\/span>the <\/span>Iran<\/span>ian regime\u2019s<\/span> terrorist activity is channeled through an elaborate network of allies and proxies, <\/span>this <\/span>indicates that how <\/span>far the world\u2019s demands for accountability should go.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The<\/span> Iran-backed terrorism <\/span>should<\/span> be a major topic of conversation at the UNGA<\/span>. The<\/span> UN member states<\/span> can find more common ground with one another by leading off the discussions with an account of malign activities that are both indefensible and undeniably the purview of <\/span>the regime\u2019s<\/span> authorities, and no one else.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly,<\/span> Iran\u2019s domestic human rights violations have not typically received this treatment<\/span> due to the appeasement policy<\/span>. The democratic nations of the world have a moral imperative to make these a top priority in international policy discussions. And it certainly doesn\u2019t hurt that there is practical value in doing so, as well. To the extent that anyone actively stands against holding <\/span>the Iranian regime<\/span> to account for its foreign terrorism, their bias would be exposed for all to see if they were first challenged to defend some of the worst crimes against humanity to take place since the end of World War II.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is how some experts have described the Iranian regime\u2019s massacre of political prisoners in 1988. In fact, an audio recording made by the official who was then <\/span>Ruhollah<\/span> Khomeini\u2019s heir-apparent reveals that this was how some <\/span>eyewitnesses<\/span> to the massacre viewed it while it was still taking place. The official, Hossein<\/span> Ali<\/span> Montazeri, called the months-long campaign of mass executions \u201cthe worst crime of the Islamic Republic<\/span>.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The recording in question was not leaked to the public until 2016, but when it was it helped to confirm some of the most shocking details, including the fact that victims included pregnant women and children as young as 13. Much of this was already <\/span>exposed,<\/span> though, as the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/span> (PMOI-MEK<\/a>)<\/span> had presented countless testimonies from survivors of the massacre over the years. <\/span>The <\/span>MEK<\/span><\/a>, had been the main target of the massacre, a<\/span>nd<\/span> the overall death toll for the <\/span>1988 massacre<\/span><\/a> was over<\/span> 30,000 individuals.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tehran has made various attempts to justify the killings in retrospect. But the fact is that one eyewitness after another has come forward to confirm that when people were taken before \u201cdeath commissions\u201d in I<\/span>ranian prisons, they were not presented with evidence of serious crimes, but were simply asked to declare their political affiliations and their views toward the theocratic dictatorship. Those who proclaimed commitment to the <\/span>MEK <\/span>and did not succumb to the regime\u2019s demands,<\/span> were summarily executed. In many cases, their trials lasted only a few minutes, and their hangings were carried out in groups.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 1988 massacre<\/span> and the impunity the mullahs\u2019 regime has ever since enjoyed,<\/span> set a pattern for the subsequent three decades of crackdowns on dissent. And that pattern is still ongoing, as evidenced by the authorities\u2019 response to a pro-democracy <\/span>uprising in November 2019<\/span><\/a>, which left 1,500 peaceful protesters dead and thousands in prison.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The continuity of these human rights abuses can be attributed to a sense of impunity that has settled on the Iranian regime. This in turn stems from the fact that the international community has consistently failed to give the massacre the prominence of place that it deserves in international policy discussions about <\/span>Iran and its ruling regime.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To date, not a single person has been held accountable for the killings, even though <\/span>a number of<\/span> perpetrators remain alive and firmly established in the regime\u2019s leadership structure. Both the current <\/span>head of the judiciary<\/span><\/a> and the current Minister of Justice served on death commissions in 1988. Their actions today leave little doubt that they stand by the political violence that became such blatant state policy at the time.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The same can be said of the entire regime\u2019s actions. Its domestic political violence is just the other side of the coin from its foreign terrorist operations. <\/span>But the evil behind the <\/span>1988 massacre<\/span><\/a> is more blatant than most anything else. <\/span>So,<\/span> the international community must hold the Iranian regime to account for its crime against humanity in 1988.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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