{"id":232625,"date":"2021-01-05T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=232625"},"modified":"2023-01-13T07:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T06:52:02","slug":"iran-execution-and-suppression-mullahs-regime-means-to-hold-on-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/editorial\/iran-execution-and-suppression-mullahs-regime-means-to-hold-on-to-power\/","title":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL &#8211; Iran: Execution and Suppression, Mullah\u2019s Regime Means To Hold on To Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ssf-21june2009.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"ssf-21june2009\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ssf-21june2009-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Report by PMOI\u2019s Social Headquarters reveals details about July 9 suppression of the uprising in Iran\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ssf-21june2009-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ssf-21june2009-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ssf-21june2009-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ssf-21june2009.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The regime in Tehran hanged three prisoners on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-three-prisoners-hanged-in-zahedan-3\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday<\/a>, including two political prisoners, in Zahedan northeast Iran, bringing the number of executions in just twenty days to 30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On December 31, 2020, the regime <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-three-sunni-prisoners-executed-in-mashhad-prison\/\" rel=\"noopener\">hanged<\/a> three Sunni prisoners, Hamid Rastbala, Kabir Sa\u2019adat Jahani, and Mohammad Ali Arayesh, on the charge of being \u201coutlaws\u201d in Vakil-Abab Prison in Mashhad, northeast Iran. They had endured five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture. Tehran once again confirmed its disregard for international human rights standards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Also, on Thursday, Brigadier General Qassem Rezaei, the State Security Force (SSF) deputy commander, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/hideous-remarks-by-the-deputy-head-of-the-police-force-about-breaking-limbs-of-detainees\/\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> his agents on TV to \u201cbreak the arms\u201d of defiant youth who the criminal regime calls \u201cthugs.\u201d Rezaei said: \u201cIf you catch them on the scene and I see that he is standing unharmed, you should answer why he is still unharmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also confirmed the regime\u2019s disregard for international law and even Iran\u2019s own laws, saying the detainees\u2019 only right is to \u201cstay alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The SSF forces along with the Revolutionary Guards (<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>) troops opened fire on protesters during the November 2019 uprising, killing 1500 innocent civilians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The clerical regime faces a restive society, and authorities have not forgotten what they call \u201cthe bitter experience\u201d of the major Iran protests in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener\">November 2019<\/a>. The nightmare of being toppled haunts the regime leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Economic and social factors, capable of triggering another uprising \u2013 as they did in November 2019 &#8211; have intensified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The regime\u2019s economic mismanagement coupled with its institutionalized corruption has devastated Iranian people\u2019s lives. The rising inflation rate and poverty index are multiplied by the coronavirus outbreak which has created what Iran\u2019s state-run media describe as a \u201cvolcano of the starving people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201c\u2026 One should fear the time that no one will be able to put the brake on the volcano of the starving people,\u201d wrote the state-run Arman-e Melli on November 29, 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Iranian people witness how the regime plunders their national wealth and wastes it on nuclear and missile programs and supporting terrorist groups in the region. On Sunday, December 27, Hassan Nasrallah, chief of Hezbollah, acknowledged that after the 33-day war in 2006, when 200,000 homes were destroyed in Lebanon, Qassem Soleimani, the eliminated chief of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/the-iranian-regimes-irgc-quds-force-1980s-present\/\" rel=\"noopener\">IRGC Quds Force<\/a> paid one years\u2019 worth of rent and expenses of the families who lost their homes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">While the regime persists in using Iran&#8217;s national wealth to continue its adventurism, people are grappling with poverty, the coronavirus outbreak and its rising mortality rate, and now air pollution. They witness how the regime\u2019s officials and their relatives live luxurious lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">To hold its fragile grip on power, the regime has increased its oppressive measures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sadly, in the face of Iran\u2019s increasing human rights violations, the international community, particularly the European Union, keep on turning a blind eye, as they did throughout the past 40 years. This inaction has granted the mullahs in Tehran a sense of impunity to continue their crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><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><br \/>\nIn September, seven United Nations human rights experts wrote a letter to the Iranian regime demanding answers over the 1988 massacre. Their letter became public in early December 2020, after the regime once again failed to provide any response. Underlining that the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">1988 massacre<\/a> \u201cmay amount to crimes against humanity,\u201d the UN experts highlighted the \u201csystematic impunity enjoyed by those who ordered and carried out\u201d the massacre, due to the international community\u2019s failure to hold the perpetrators of this crime accountable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/iran-who-is-ebrahim-raisi\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>, a main preparator of the 1988 massacre, is Iran\u2019s current Judiciary Chief. The rising number of executions in Iran is not a surprise when a \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/who-ebrahim-raisi-the-iranian-regimes-new-chief-judiciary\" rel=\"noopener\">hanging judge<\/a>\u201d is the highest figure of \u201cjustice.\u201d And the Minister of Justice, Alireza Avaei, is also another member of the death commission in 1988.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A surprise is that the EU leaders, despite praising human rights values, and their recently adopted global human rights sanctions regime against human rights violators, remain appeasing the regime in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The EU leaders have only\u201ccondemned\u201d human rights violations in Iran but have taken no action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Would Iran take these condemnations serious, when the EU leaders make efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal despite the fact that the regime continues breaching the agreement, and when they negotiate with the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, whose diplomat, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-regime-diplomacy-of-terror\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, is on trial in Belgium for attempting to bomb a peaceful gathering in Europe?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Assadi, who tried to bomb the opposition rally in 2018 in Paris, refused to appear in the court, claiming \u201cdiplomatic immunity.\u201d He will remain to do this while his boss enjoys this immunity, and the regime\u2019s leaders such as Raisi keep on killing people inside Iran, enjoying the \u201csystematic impunity\u201d they have.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Iranian people have to pay the price of the EU\u2019s failure in abiding by its humanitarian values. The 2018 bomb plot showed that EU citizens also have to pay a heavy price when their leaders maintain negotiating with the terrorist regime in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The EU should act now. It should go beyond letters and condemnations, and it should not allow the regime to make executions in Iran \u201cregular\u201d for the world community. If not contained, the regime will spread terror and chaos across the globe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The EU should sanction, Raisi, Zarif, and all other officials of the regime, and make any relations with the regime contingent on a complete halt to human rights violations and terrorism by the regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The regime in Tehran hanged three prisoners on Sunday, including two political prisoners, in Zahedan northeast Iran, bringing the number of executions in just twenty days to 30. 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