{"id":225957,"date":"2020-09-13T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T17:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=225957"},"modified":"2023-01-25T20:32:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T19:32:58","slug":"navid-afkaris-execution-consequences-and-outcome-for-irans-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/navid-afkaris-execution-consequences-and-outcome-for-irans-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Navid Afkari\u2019s Execution: Consequences and Outcome for Iran\u2019s Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Navid_Afkari2_13092020-1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-225959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Navid_Afkari2_13092020-1.jpg\" alt=\"Maryam Rajavi, MEK, NCRI, navid, afkari, execution, Iran\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Navid_Afkari2_13092020-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Navid_Afkari2_13092020-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Navid_Afkari2_13092020-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Navid_Afkari2_13092020-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Navid_Afkari2_13092020-1-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Navid_Afkari2_13092020-1-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Navid_Afkari2_13092020-1-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian regime executed Navid Afkari, a 27-year-old wrestling champion, on Saturday in defiance of pleas by the international community to halt this execution. What are the consequences and outcome for the regime? Does Navid\u2019s execution indicate the regime\u2019s strength?<\/p>\n<p>To answer these questions, it is necessary to understand the regime\u2019s pillars of existence, which are none other than systematic domestic oppression and export of terrorism abroad. The regime\u2019s record of being the top executioner per capita and the greatest state sponsor of terrorism are testaments to its vital need for execution and export of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>The medieval regime, due to its failing economic structure and institutionalized corruption, along with its warmongering policies, is neither willing nor able to resolve people\u2019s economic and social grievances. Thus, the Iranian society has turned into a powder keg and the two recent major Iran protests in 2018 and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 2019<\/a> are testaments to this fact.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, to control this restive society, particularly after the November uprising which rattled the regime\u2019s foundations, the mullahs have increased executions. The execution of Navid Afkari, and before him Mostafa Salehi who was also arrested during the nationwide Iran protests in 2018, are thus meant to thwart another uprising and intimidate the public.<\/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-e1598946307486\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-e1598946307486.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-e1598946307486\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These executions are the continuation of the regime\u2019s brutal suppression of both uprisings of 2018 and November 2019, the latter at a much larger scale with over <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/iran-protests\/27081-over-1-500-killed-in-the-iranian-people-s-nationwide-uprising-names-of-504-martyrs-released\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1500 martyrs<\/a>. These executions and oppression of both uprising are in line with the regime\u2019s killing spree of the 1980s, which reached its height in the summer of 1988 when over 30,000 political prisoners <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/20932-the-1988-massacre-in-iran\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">were executed<\/a> in a matter of months. The international community\u2019s failure in holding the regime to account for its human rights violations, mainly the 1988 massacre, has caused the regime to enjoy a longtime impunity, thus, continuing its brutality and human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, there is difference between the regime\u2019s oppression today and in the 1980s. In the 1980s, the regime executed and tortured people on the scale of thousands, but the world was silent. But now, Navid\u2019s execution was followed by a huge international reaction. This is chiefly because of the Iranian people\u2019s two recent glorious uprisings, and the Iranian Resistance\u2019s four decades of exposing the regime\u2019s human rights violations.<\/p>\n<h3>The consequences and outcome for the regime<\/h3>\n<p>Navid Afkari\u2019s execution, with its both growing international and domestic condemnations, will increase the public\u2019s hatred inside Iran toward the regime and the mullahs\u2019 isolation on the international scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian regime was fully aware of these outcomes. So why did it nevertheless execute Navid? The answer is simple: Fearing a looming uprising that might topple the regime, the mullahs had to execute Navid, in a desperate attempt to control the society. On the other hand, the regime had once succumbed to an international and domestic campaign and temporarily halted the execution of three young men arrested during the November protests. If the mullahs were forced to stop Navid\u2019s execution as well, this would have demoralized their oppressive forces.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the outcome of this criminal execution, and the international community\u2019s duty, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran\u2019s courageous youth will rise in solidarity with the heroic people of Fars Province and in protest of the undue execution of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/item\/maryam-rajavi-3-brothers-kazerun-shiraz-execution-order-iran-protests\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Navid Afkari<\/a>. Iran mourns Navid and shares in the grief of Afkari family as the world is shocked by Khamenei and the clerical regime\u2019s barbarism. The religious fascism ruling Iran cannot survive a day without executions, torture and domestic suppression. By spilling the blood of young people like Navid Afkari, the mullahs are seeking to maintain their hold on power in the face of Iran protests. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/viewpoints\/iran-death-penalty-abolition\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">execution<\/a> of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/item\/maryam-rajavi-navid-afkari-justice-thousands-tortured-political-prisoners\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Navid Afkari<\/a>, however, will only add fuel to the flames of the Iranian people\u2019s uprising and will send the mullahs\u2019 regime to the dustbin of history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Nations Security Council and its member states, the UN Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Union and all international human rights authorities need to take practical, effective measures against the regime in Iran for the execution of Navid Afkari and 120,000 others executed on political grounds. Silence and inaction give a green light to and are construed as complicity in these crimes,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian regime executed Navid Afkari, a 27-year-old wrestling champion, on Saturday in defiance of pleas by the international community to halt this execution. 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