{"id":231644,"date":"2020-12-22T15:16:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=231644"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:29:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:29:06","slug":"europe-seems-to-exclude-iran-from-pending-action-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/europe-seems-to-exclude-iran-from-pending-action-on-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Seems To Exclude Iran From Pending Action on Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-European-Union\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-231647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-European-Union.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-European-Union\" width=\"700\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-European-Union.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-European-Union-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iran-European-Union-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In October, the European Commission introduced a proposal for an EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime \u2013 a framework similar to the Magnitsky Act in the United States, which streamlines the enactment of sanctions on human rights abusers throughout the world. In discussing the proposal, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen cited prior difficulties the European Union had encountered when trying to respond to situations in Belarus, Turkey, and Russia. Conspicuously absent from the discussion was Iran, which is the leading country in violation of human rights in our time yet has benefited from very different European policies.<\/p>\n<p>With the Global Sanctions Regime potentially coming into force next month, this has not changed. The EU remains largely silent over human rights abuses perpetrated or facilitated by Iran\u2019s regime, and this raises serious questions about the political response if those abuses should accelerate once again. Those questions urgently demand answers, since such acceleration is all but inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a year earlier, in November 2019, the Iranian regime undertook perhaps is greatest single <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-november-2019-uprising-and-its-amplifications\/\" rel=\"noopener\">crackdown<\/a> on dissent in decades. While media suppression and politically-motivated arrests and executions are all common practices in Iran, it is comparatively rare for authorities to carry out mass killings in public view. But that is exactly what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-irans-army-of-terror-and-oppression-revolutionary-guards-irgc\/\" rel=\"noopener\">IRGC<\/a>) did in response to a nationwide uprising last year. Amnesty International confirmed that the IRGC had been shooting to kill when it opened fire on crowds of protesters in various cities, and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about-ncri\/alternative\/\" rel=\"noopener\">NCRI<\/a>) later reported that the death toll from those encounters <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\">reached 1,500<\/a> in a matter of only days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reuters Confirms NCRI\u2019s Death Tally of 1500 From Crackdown on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a>   <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/woLdGlVCIY\">https:\/\/t.co\/woLdGlVCIY<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StopIranBloodshed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StopIranBloodshed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeAllProtesters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeAllProtesters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Internet4Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Internet4Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1209217061668438022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The scale of that crackdown was arguably surprising, but the international community cannot reasonably claim to have had no warning. Less than two years earlier, Tehran had responded violently to another nationwide uprising, killing dozens of participants in the streets and torturing several others to death in the aftermath of sweeping arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier uprising also marked the de facto end of longstanding propaganda about an organized opposition movement, as the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei acknowledged the unrest had been facilitated in large part by 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\">PMOI-MEK<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Persons familiar with modern Iranian history should recognize the significance of these warnings, in terms both of the regime\u2019s vulnerability and of the potential for backlash that exceeds the scale of the November 2019 killings. For regime authorities, invoking the MEK is tantamount to calling for mass executions. In 1988, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iran1988.org\/khomeini-decrees-execution-of-steadfast-monafeqin-mojahedin-in-prisons\/\" rel=\"noopener\">fatwa<\/a> that primarily targeted MEK while declaring that perceived domestic enemies of the regime were guilty of waging war on God himself, and were therefore subject to summary execution. As a result, \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iran1988.org\/perpetrators\/\" rel=\"noopener\">death commissions<\/a>\u201d in numerous Iranian prisons began interrogating political prisoners over their affiliations before hanging an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/20932-the-1988-massacre-in-iran\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated 30,000<\/a> in about three months.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><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>Tehran declined to respond to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/significance-of-un-experts-letter-on-1988-massacre-victory-for-justice-seeking-movement\/\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> sent in September by seven UN human rights experts, which asked for details about what happened in the summer of 1988 and also demanded explanations for the regime\u2019s ongoing harassment of survivors and families who are actively pursuing justice for the massacre\u2019s victims. The text of that letter was recently made public, and it highlights the fact that many figures who serve on the death commissions or cooperated with them are currently in positions of great authority in Tehran, including those of Justice Minister and judiciary chief.<\/p>\n<p>These figures are currently setting policy for the regime, with obvious implications for human rights. And lest there be any doubt that the regime stands behind the legacy of the 1988 massacre, the former Justice Minister <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/iran1988.org\/mostafa-pour-mohammadi\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mostafa Pourmohammadi<\/a> told state media in 2016 that he considers himself \u201cproud\u201d to have carried out \u201cGod\u2019s command\u201d of death for the MEK. Pourmohammadi is now a major adviser to the Supreme Leader, and there can be little doubt that he and his colleagues will push to once again ramp up the violence in response to MEK-led unrest, especially if they believe there will be no serious response from the international community.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi defends Iran&amp;#039;s 1988 massacre\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_uAo6w1QOFqw\" 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%2FuAo6w1QOFqw%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uAo6w1QOFqw\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT6M40S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-07-31T21:13:53Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_uAo6w1QOFqw\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FuAo6w1QOFqw%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi defends Iran&#039;s 1988 massacre<\/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\/uAo6w1QOFqw\" 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%2FuAo6w1QOFqw%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi defends Iran&amp;#039;s 1988 massacre\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, Advisor to the Judiciary Chief of Iran and a former Iranian Interior and Justice Minister, has defended the 1988 massacre of tens of thousands of political prisoners in Iran and vowed to continue exterminating supporters of the opposition People&#039;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Pour-Mohammadi, who in 1988 sat on the Tehran Death Commission that sent some 30,000 political prisoners to the gallows, defended that crime against humanity in an interview with the state-run Mosalas magazine on July 24, 2019. Mosalas also posted the video of the interview online. Pour-Mohammadi&#039;s shocking defence of the 1988 extrajudicial executions in Iranian prisons is a sign of the impunity enjoyed by top perpetrators of that massacre and indicates that the regime plans to continue exterminating PMOI activists in Iran. In March 2019, Iran&#039;s Supreme Leader appointed Ebrahim Raisi, who in 1988 sat alongside Pour-Mohammadi on the Tehran Death Commission, as Iran&#039;s Judiciary Chief. Survivors, family members of those executed and human rights defenders are at increased risk of harassment and persecution simply for seeking truth and justice about the 1988 massacre, according to international human rights groups.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>That belief was justified in October by the European Commission\u2019s implication that Tehran would not be a target for measures imposed under the Global Sanctions Regime. And that justification has been strengthened on many subsequent occasions, even as Iranian authorities have continued their crackdowns on dissent, punishing participants in the 2019 uprising and pre-emptively arresting activists around the time of the uprising\u2019s one-year anniversary. At virtually every turn, EU policy discussions have ignored these developments in favor of a narrow focus that puts the 2015 Iran nuclear deal ahead of all other matters.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the participants in that agreement held their latest discussions and released a joint statement affirming a mutual commitment to keeping it on life support pending possible re-entry by the United States following next month\u2019s presidential transition. The United Kingdom, France, Germany could have easily conditioned any negotiations with the regime to the ongoing human rights abuses, and EU principles, namely Magnitsky Act. But no statement of this kind appears to be forthcoming, and that is why Tehran will see it as license to continue its abuses with little fear of consequence.<\/p>\n<p>If it is not bad enough that this Western silence amplifies the risk to innocent Iranian who are pushing for democracy in their homeland, it should be noted that Iran\u2019s assumption of impunity may also blow back on Europe itself. That very nearly happened in June 2018 when the regime attempted to supplement its domestic crackdowns with an attack on exiled supporters of the Iranian protest movement. Currently, four Iranian operatives are on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-regime-diplomacy-of-terror\/\" rel=\"noopener\">trial<\/a> in Belgium over the planned terrorist attack, which would have seen explosives detonated at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/free-iran-gathering-paris-2018\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Iran gathering<\/a> near Paris, an event that was attended by hundreds of political dignitaries from Europe and the US.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution in that case has firmly established that the defendants were acting with full support from the Iranian government. This goes to show that the regime\u2019s domestic and foreign policies are closely linked, and similarly ruthless. And that in turn suggests that it is in Western countries\u2019 own interests to vigorously defend the rights of the Iranian people. But instead of doing so, most of those countries have shown consistent willingness to engage with the regime on friendly terms and without conditions.<\/p>\n<p>This habit of appeasement must be brought to an end, even if it means risking the collapse of the Iran nuclear deal. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is beyond worthless if it reinforces Iranian officials\u2019 belief that they can kill innocent people with impunity, both at home and abroad, and still escape European sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October, the European Commission introduced a proposal for an EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime &ndash; a framework similar to the Magnitsky Act in the United States, which streamlines [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":231647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,15],"tags":[129,130,141,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-231644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-human-rights","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-iran-protests","11":"tag-human-rights","12":"tag-mek-iran"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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