{"id":228810,"date":"2020-10-31T10:09:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T10:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=228810"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:36:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:36:17","slug":"to-address-iran-regimes-latest-abuses-start-by-ending-its-historical-impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/to-address-iran-regimes-latest-abuses-start-by-ending-its-historical-impunity\/","title":{"rendered":"To Address Iran Regime\u2019s Latest Abuses, Start by Ending Its Historical Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran_regime_heads_31102020\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-228812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Iran_regime_heads_31102020.jpg\" alt=\"Iran_regime_heads_31102020\" width=\"690\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Iran_regime_heads_31102020.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Iran_regime_heads_31102020-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the United Nations\u2019 special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran presented his annual report to the General Assembly. The report was completed nearly one year after the nationwide Iran protests, during which over 1,500 peaceful protesters <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\">were fatally shot<\/a> by the Revolutionary Guards (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/irgc-s-38-year-record-war-crackdown-exporting-terrorism-fundamentalist-and-advancing-the-nuclear-weapons-drive\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IRGC<\/a>). Thousands of others were arrested, and the regime\u2019s judiciary has spent the past year meting out harsh sentences for activists, including death sentences.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of the earlier uprising, Iran regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei begrudgingly attributed the coordinated unrest to the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PMOI\/MEK<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Less than a week before Rehman presented his report to the UN, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about-ncri\/alternative\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NCRI<\/a>) hosted an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/live-online-conference-on-iran-regimes-terrorism-in-europe\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online conference<\/a> featuring a number renowned politicians from both American and European political circles. In it, Mrs. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/biography\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, NCRI\u2019s president-elect, said: \u201cThe policy of appeasement has greatly emboldened the regime over the past 40 years,\u201d adding that this was made especially obvious earlier in October when it was revealed that an Iranian diplomat had openly threatened European national security after being arrested for plotting a terrorist act near Paris.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Maryam Rajavi: EU faces a historic test vs. terrorism under the banner of Islam\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_PI5i8U1izOU\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FPI5i8U1izOU%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PI5i8U1izOU\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT5M45S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-10-22T12:42:39Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_PI5i8U1izOU\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FPI5i8U1izOU%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Maryam Rajavi: EU faces a historic test vs. terrorism under the banner of Islam<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PI5i8U1izOU\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FPI5i8U1izOU%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Maryam Rajavi: EU faces a historic test vs. terrorism under the banner of Islam\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Maryam Rajavi addressed a gathering in Belgium, on Thursday, October 22, 2020. She saluted parliamentarians and other participants in the gathering in a video message to the gathering. In part of her message, she said: 1. European countries must set aside all political considerations in this case. The regime\u2019s leaders must be prosecuted and they must face justice. This is a necessary and a preventive measure against terrorism under the name of Islam with the clerical regime as its central banker. 2. Khamenei and Rouhani took a great risk by sending a diplomat to carry out the bombing and slaughter. The reason is that they are extremely vulnerable in the face of the people\u2019s uprisings, the spread of the Resistance\u2019s influence, and the overthrow of their regime. 3. The policy of appeasement has greatly emboldened the regime over the past 40 years. To the extent that their diplomat, who is arrested, makes threats of more terrorist operations even from inside prison.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The diplomat-terrorist, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/iranian-diplomat-and-three-accomplices-on-trial-for-planned-bombing-of-a-massive-rally-in-paris\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, was arrested in Germany in 2018 and then extradited to Belgium despite appeals from Tehran. When it became clear that those appeals had been unsuccessful, Assadi reportedly resorted to blackmail and told investigators that Iran has numerous terrorist allies and proxies who would be watching to proceedings to see how Iranian operatives would be treated.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his best efforts at intimidation, Assadi now faces trial on November 27, and it is generally expected that a guilty verdict and sentencing will come within days. Last week\u2019s conference sought to underline the broader implications of Assadi\u2019s terror plot, and it urged Western powers to take actions that would hold not just individual perpetrators but also the entire regime accountable.<\/p>\n<p>The same advice is clearly applicable to the human rights situation, and indeed these two issues are very closely intertwined.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 bomb plot was meant to target an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/multimedia\/free-iran-2018-gathering-30-june-2018-villepinte-paris\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">annual gathering<\/a> of the NCRI, wherein Mrs. Rajavi was to deliver the keynote address. The regime had decided to eliminate the Iranian resistance wake of the 2018 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tQACfCy_X8Q?list=PL-I2iQQcsqbtrEcaEuiN6l3GOV_u86JQf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nationwide uprising<\/a>. By the time the plot was being set into motion, it was clear that the Iranian regime\u2019s authorities had failed in their effort to stamp out dissent at home. Protests continued throughout 2018 despite dozens of deaths and thousands of arrests.<\/p>\n<p>When Tehran similarly failed to crush the organized opposition via foreign terrorism, it reinforced the need for domestic repression. And this set the stage for the even more severe crackdown on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 2019 uprising<\/a>. Yet this too appears to have failed to restore control over Iranian society. Protests erupted across multiple provinces just two months after the uprising, in response to the regime\u2019s attempted cover-up of a missile strike that downed a commercial airliner. And since then, officials have been speaking somewhat openly about the lingering threat of further nationwide protests being led by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MEK<\/a>.<\/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-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the regime\u2019s days are numbered, the cycle of domestic repression and foreign terrorism can be expected to go on and on, with escalating risk both to the Iranian people and to global security, unless the cycle is interrupted by coordinated action from the international community.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent the regime\u2019s terrorism and human rights abuses, the international community should end its \u201cpolicy of appeasement\u201d of the Iranian regime. Many of the steps toward that outcome involve a more assertive response to recent and ongoing malign activities by the Iranian regime. But arguably the most important steps involve putting those activities in context with the regime\u2019s fundamental nature and 41-year history, and holding it accountable for crimes that have remained unpunished over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Where domestic human rights issues are concerned, the \u201cpolicy of appeasement\u201d dates back at least to the summer of 1988, when the international community ignored repeated calls to action by the Iranian Resistance, urging the Western policymakers and media outlets to help prevent an emerging massacre of political prisoners. As a result of overwhelming international silence, the regime was soon able to systematically execute approximately <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/20932-the-1988-massacre-in-iran\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">30,000 dissidents<\/a>, the vast majority of whom were MEK\u2019s members and supporters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_224120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224120\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"1988_massacre_18082020\" class=\"size-full wp-image-224120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1988_massacre_18082020.jpg\" alt=\"1988_massacre_18082020\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1988_massacre_18082020.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1988_massacre_18082020-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1988_massacre_18082020-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1988_massacre_18082020-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1988_massacre_18082020-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1988_massacre_18082020-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1988_massacre_18082020-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the summer of 1988, Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering the massacre of 30000 political prisoners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nearly as bad as the killings themselves was the way in which the lack of an international response contributed to the development of Iran\u2019s abiding sense of impunity. Regime authorities have since cracked down with varying levels of brutality on every major movement that sought to undermine the theocratic system or promote democracy. And at virtually every step of the way, that sense of impunity has been reinforced by Western policymakers who have been ignoring the 1988 massacre.<\/p>\n<p>Such naivety blatantly disregards the fact that Tehran has been openly defending the legacy of the 1988 massacre for more than 30 years, promoting its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iran1988.org\/perpetrators\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">perpetrators<\/a> through the ranks of leadership and using it as a template for smaller-scale crackdowns even now.<\/p>\n<p>That trend will continue to escalate, with consequences for both Iranian activists and Western nationals, unless European governments and international bodies start to confront Tehran\u2019s impunity head-on. The Assadi trial and the anniversary of the November uprising provide key opportunities to work toward that outcome. But no single act is more vital than a thorough, independent investigation into the worst crime of the regime: the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iran1988.org\/1988-massacre\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1988 massacre.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the United Nations&rsquo; special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran presented his annual report to the General Assembly. 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