{"id":242757,"date":"2021-07-09T10:11:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T15:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=242757"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:47:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:47:31","slug":"irans-human-rights-record-will-get-worse-in-absence-of-new-western-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/free-iran-world-summit\/irans-human-rights-record-will-get-worse-in-absence-of-new-western-pressures\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Human Rights Record Will Get Worse in Absence of New Western Pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-execution-violation-of-the-Human-Rights-23012021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-execution-violation-of-the-Human-Rights-23012021\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-233592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-execution-violation-of-the-Human-Rights-23012021.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-execution-violation-of-the-Human-Rights-23012021\" width=\"1009\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-execution-violation-of-the-Human-Rights-23012021.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-execution-violation-of-the-Human-Rights-23012021-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-execution-violation-of-the-Human-Rights-23012021-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-execution-violation-of-the-Human-Rights-23012021-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-execution-violation-of-the-Human-Rights-23012021-696x418.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1009px) 100vw, 1009px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The June 18 \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/2021-iran-presidential-election-iran-regime-sham-election-ncr-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">election<\/a>\u201d of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mek-iran.com\/2021\/07\/09\/deaf-ears-cant-hear-what-the-iran-is-telling-about-the-mek\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> as the next Iranian president was the ultimate expression of the Iranian regime\u2019s culture of impunity. That impunity has been reinforced by permissive Western policies and the international community\u2019s general refusal to demand accountability from Iranian officials for past involvement in human rights abuses and terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Raisi has been implicated in both those categories of activity and is arguably one of the officials most deserving of prosecution for crimes against humanity. Amnesty International issued a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2021\/06\/iran-ebrahim-raisi-must-be-investigated-for-crimes-against-humanity\/\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> the very day after his \u201celection\u201d in which it emphasized the monstrous implications of him being elevated to the second-highest office in the regime instead of being \u201cinvestigated for the crimes against humanity of murder, enforced disappearance, and torture.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The outcome of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> &quot;election&quot; was predictable. But nevertheless, that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EbrahimRaisi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EbrahimRaisi<\/a> has risen to the presidency instead of being investigated for the crimes against humanity of murder, enforced disappearance and torture, is a grim reminder that impunity reigns supreme in Iran<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Agnes Callamard (@AgnesCallamard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AgnesCallamard\/status\/1406189332516544517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The statement called attention to Raisi\u2019s current record as head of the Iranian judiciary, a position that he was given by the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/iran-ali-khamenei-suprem-leader\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Khamenei<\/a> in March 2019. As the nation\u2019s top legal authority, Raisi oversaw an expansion in how the death penalty was used, prompting the judiciary to carry out its first execution in decades for a person accused of merely consuming alcohol. He underscored the regime\u2019s lack of concern for international consequences when he pushed for the execution of figures like Navid Afkari, a champion wrestler who had become the focus of global human rights campaign after he was sentenced to death on obviously fraudulent murder charges after being arrested for participation in l<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener\">arge-scale protests<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">But the ultimate test of Raisi\u2019s repressive philosophy came in November 2019, when even more widespread protests broke out in response to the government\u2019s announcement of a sudden increase in gasoline prices. The unrest quickly came to be recognized as the follow-up to another nationwide uprising in January 2018, and as a showcase for the same organized leadership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The November 2019 uprising was the apparent culmination of all the protests that had kept the original uprising\u2019s slogans and calls for regime change in mainstream circulation for many months beforehand. This being the case, the regime reacted with fairly predictable panic, enabled by Raisi\u2019s well-established penchant for repression and also by Western powers\u2019 persistent unwillingness to seriously confront the Iranian regime over attacks on its own people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-219239\" 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 style=\"text-align: justify\">As a result, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps opened fire almost immediately on participants in the 2019 uprising. Within only a few days, the death toll mounted to over 1,500, and soon thereafter it was reported that upwards of 12,000 people had been arrested. Amnesty International later issued a report titled \u201cTrampling Humanity\u201d which detailed much of the torture that those arrestees were subjected to for months afterward, most of it at the hands of a judiciary run by the man who would go on to become Iran\u2019s next president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Raisi\u2019s contributions to this crackdown should not have come as any surprise to persons familiar with his background. In the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">summer of 1988,<\/a> he was one of the key figures in the Tehran \u201cdeath commission\u201d that implemented a fatwa targeting the MEK and other committed opponents of the fledgling theocratic dictatorship. With his religious edict, the regime\u2019s founder Ruhollah Khomeini declared the MEK to be enemies of God and instructed his subordinates to execute them accordingly. The death commissions began interrogating political prisoners, many of whom had already served out their sentences and ordered the hanging of virtually all those who continued their support for the MEK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Raisi\u2019s death commission oversaw the executions in Evin Prison, which had already established itself as home to Iran\u2019s largest population of political prisoners. As such, he had a hand in the largest share of the over 30,000 killings that took place between July and September 1988.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In recent years, as public awareness of this role has grown, Raisi has boldly defended the killings, reasserting his belief that the will of the supreme leader cannot be questioned and that Khomeini was right to advise that the MEK and its affiliates should be handled with \u201cno mercy.\u201d His record and his unrepentant public profile helped to fuel protest following the announcement of his presidential candidacy. Many of those protests identified him as the \u201chenchman of 1988,\u201d while others featured the families of those who were killed in the 2019 crackdown and provided them with a platform for arguing that much worse crimes against humanity will follow if his ascension to the presidency is not questioned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">That promotion has already been questioned by the Iranian people, the vast majority of whom participated in a boycott of last month\u2019s election in order to condemn the system that put him forward as the only viable candidate. \u201cReformist\u201d politicians were excluded from the election entirely, but most of the so-called reformists&#8217; outlets endorsed Raisi as the next president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In dozens of Iranian cities, the MEK\u2019s \u201cResistance Units\u201d promoted that boycott specifically as a means to \u201cvote for regime change,\u201d and, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, predicted that it would be the precursor to even larger and more diverse uprisings against the clerical regime than the uprisings of 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There are already signs of such an uprising emerging. Large-scale labor strikes broke out the very day after Raisi\u2019s election, and recent protests over recurring blackouts featured such provocative slogans as \u201cdown with the Khamenei.\u201d Of course, in the face of Raisi\u2019s pending administration and in the wake of the 2019 uprising, it is all but certain that the growth of these protests will coincide with the growth of violent repression. However, that severity of that repression could be greatly diminished if it were clear to Tehran that there would be international consequences for further human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This is certainly the position of the Iranian resistance, which will present concrete recommendations for how to send that message in the three-day <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/free-iran-world-summit\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Iran World Summit<\/a> beginning this Saturday. Western policymakers and the entire international community are welcome to listen to the speeches that comprise that event, in order to better understand the problems that have been exacerbated by Western appeasement, the ways in which Iranian activists are already working to address those problems, and the ways in which that work can be supported through tougher economic sanctions and greater diplomatic isolation of the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The June 18 &ldquo;election&rdquo; of Ebrahim Raisi as the next Iranian president was the ultimate expression of the Iranian regime&rsquo;s culture of impunity. 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