{"id":243815,"date":"2021-07-26T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=243815"},"modified":"2023-02-07T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T22:58:10","slug":"iran-is-on-the-cusp-of-a-new-era-more-uprisings-are-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/ebrahim-raisi\/iran-is-on-the-cusp-of-a-new-era-more-uprisings-are-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Is on the Cusp of a New Era, More Uprisings Are on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-243816 aligncenter\" title=\"Iran-protests-Tehran-NCRI-New-Era\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Iran-protests-Tehran-NCRI-New-Era.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-protests-Tehran-NCRI-New-Era\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Iran-protests-Tehran-NCRI-New-Era.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Iran-protests-Tehran-NCRI-New-Era-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Iran-protests-Tehran-NCRI-New-Era-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Iran-protests-Tehran-NCRI-New-Era-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Iran-protests-Tehran-NCRI-New-Era-696x391.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Protests erupted in Khuzestan province, southwest Iran, twelve days ago. These protests were initially due to the severe water shortages in this province. But soon these protests intensified, and people started targeting the regime\u2019s top officials in their slogans. They chanted \u201cdown with the dictator,\u201d and \u201cDown with Khamenei,\u201d the regime\u2019s Supreme leader. These protests have now spread to dozen Iranian cities, including Tabriz and Tehran, with people calling for regime change. The regime has arrested dozens of people in different cities and according to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/about-iranian-opposition-pmoi-mek\" rel=\"noopener\">Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK)<\/a>, 12 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-iran-protest\/iran-the-names-of-12-martyrs-of-the-uprising\/\" rel=\"noopener\">people<\/a> were killed by the security forces. Yet, protests continue to spread and intensify.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">July 26 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tehran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tehran<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <br \/>Protesters chanting in the capital:<br \/>&quot;Tehran, Khuzestan, unite, unite!&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7_%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u062e\u0648\u0632\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646_\u062a\u0646\u0647\u0627_\u0646\u06cc\u0633\u062a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XyhpvoAd3s\">pic.twitter.com\/XyhpvoAd3s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; People&#39;s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mojahedineng\/status\/1419609722710159361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 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;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Western powers and the international community should think of August 5 as the deadline for a change in policy toward the\u00a0Iranian regime. That is the day when the\u00a0regime\u2019s President<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/who-is-ebrahim-raisi-ncr-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\"> Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> is\u00a0scheduled to inaugurate. The ultra-hardline figure is recognized as having perpetrated\u00a0a number of\u00a0crimes against humanity throughout his career, and it is widely anticipated that his leadership of the executive branch will coincide with a new increase in malign behavior both at home and abroad.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Raisi\u2019s background and his likely presidential initiatives make it both a moral and a practical imperative for the regime\u2019s traditional foreign adversaries to reconsider their policies around the time of his inauguration.\u00a0In the first place, pressure on the new president may help to forestall the sorts of human rights abuses that he has had no qualms about using to suppress dissent and safeguard the clerical regime\u2019s hold on power. Additionally, such pressure would go a long way toward challenging the regime\u2019s typical expectation of impunity \u2013 an expectation that has unfortunately been fostered through decades of conciliatory Western policies.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Iranian pro-democracy activists highlighted the faults in these policies last weekend at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/free-iran-world-summit\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Iran World Summit<\/a>, a globally live-streamed event organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran. They were joined in that endeavor by more than 1,000 political dignitaries who took part in the summit from all across the world. Dozens of American and European lawmakers delivered speeches affirming the need for an imminent change of policy and singling out Raisi as the greatest single contributor to that need.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The First Day of the Free Iran World Summit 2021<br \/>The online summit of Iranians from 50,000 locations in 105 countries, including gatherings in 17 countries<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeIran2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeIran2021<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ProsecuteRaisiNOW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ProsecuteRaisiNOW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/crpoFMW5zF\">pic.twitter.com\/crpoFMW5zF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1416504378605854720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 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;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mark\u00a0Demesmaeker, a Member of the European Parliament representing Belgium, said on the second day of that three-day event, \u201cThat Ebrahim Raisi has been installed as president instead of being prosecuted for crimes against humanity is a tragic demonstration of the international community\u2019s failure to address the structural crisis in Iran.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">His comments closely\u00a0echoes\u00a0those of a statement issued by Amnesty International the day after Raisi\u2019s June 18 \u201celection.\u201d Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect\u00a0of the NCRI, called attention to that statement in discussing Raisi\u2019s pending inauguration on the third day of the summit. Her speech declared him to be guilty by his own admission, having publicly defended his role in what may have been the\u00a0Iranian regime\u2019s\u00a0worst crime against humanity.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">1988<\/a>, Raisi was the deputy public prosecutor in the capital city of Tehran. That summer, he was directed to join the \u201cdeath commission\u201d responsible for interrogating political detainees at\u00a0Evin\u00a0Prison and determining which of them would live and which would die. As with death commissions throughout the country, Raisi\u2019s tribunal rarely deemed anyone to be sufficiently loyal to the theocratic system, and the vast majority of those who came before it\u00a0were\u00a0hanged and then buried in secret mass graves.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It is believed that nationwide, the 1988 massacre of political prisoners claimed\u00a0over\u00a030,000 victims, most of them members of the\u00a0Peoeple\u2019s\u00a0Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK). Raisi and other prominent officials have, in recent years, acknowledged the effort to stamp out that opposition group, sometimes characterizing it as a religious mandate and \u201cGod\u2019s command.\u201d The massacre also set the tone for the regime\u2019s broader treatment or organized opposition groups, especially the\u00a0MEK. At the time, the killings stemmed from a fatwa by\u00a0then, supreme leader Ruhollah\u00a0Khomenei\u00a0which declared\u00a0the MEK\u00a0guilty of \u201cenmity against God.\u201d That same charge has been used on countless subsequent occasions to justify capital punishment\u00a0when not violent crime has been committed.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Such practices have grown worse in recent years, as was to be expected from the fact that\u00a0the regime\u2019s\u00a0Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei betrayed longstanding regime propaganda to acknowledge a mounting threat to the ruling system.\u00a0In the midst of\u00a0a nationwide uprising in January 2018, Khamenei stated that the\u00a0MEK\u00a0had planned for months to facilitate the unrest and popularize anti-government slogans like \u201cdeath to the dictator.\u201d Warnings about the\u00a0MEK\u2019s growing influence have proliferated ever since and have proven to be warranted in the wake of several developments, not least of which was an even larger uprising in<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener\"> November 2019.<\/a><\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">But at the time of that uprising, Khamenei had appointed Raisi as head of the judiciary. In that capacity, he oversaw what may have been the worst single crackdown on dissent since the time of the 1988 massacre. About 1,500 peaceful protesters were killed within days of unrest breaking out across nearly 200 cities and towns. At least 12,000 individuals were arrested, and many of them were systematically tortured for months afterward at the hands of authorities that answered to Raisi.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mrs. Rajavi pointed to that crackdown as further evidence of Raisi\u2019s clear\u00a0guilt, and\u00a0identified his inauguration as a \u201clitmus test\u201d for the international community\u2019s commitment to principles of human rights and universal accountability. This is to say that in the Raisi era, more than any other, world powers will have a clear choice to make between dealing with the clerical regime and standing on the side of its people and their democratic Resistance. And insofar as August 5 represents the inflection point between a history of rampant human rights abuses and a future defined by much more of the same,\u00a0it should not be difficult to recognize Raisi\u2019s inauguration as a call to international action in defense of his once and future victims.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests erupted in Khuzestan province, southwest Iran, twelve days ago. These protests were initially due to the severe water shortages in this province. 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