{"id":246107,"date":"2021-09-01T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=246107"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:10:10","slug":"iran-ebrahim-raisis-government-lowers-the-veil-on-the-regimes-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-ebrahim-raisis-government-lowers-the-veil-on-the-regimes-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s Government Lowers the Veil on the Regime\u2019s Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ebrahim-Raisis-cabinet-is-filled-with-veterans-in-corruption-crimes-and-terrorism\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-244832\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ebrahim-Raisis-cabinet-is-filled-with-veterans-in-corruption-crimes-and-terrorism.jpg\" alt=\"Ebrahim Raisi's cabinet is filled with veterans in corruption, crimes, and terrorism\" width=\"1000\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ebrahim-Raisis-cabinet-is-filled-with-veterans-in-corruption-crimes-and-terrorism.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ebrahim-Raisis-cabinet-is-filled-with-veterans-in-corruption-crimes-and-terrorism-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ebrahim-Raisis-cabinet-is-filled-with-veterans-in-corruption-crimes-and-terrorism-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ebrahim-Raisis-cabinet-is-filled-with-veterans-in-corruption-crimes-and-terrorism-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ebrahim-Raisis-cabinet-is-filled-with-veterans-in-corruption-crimes-and-terrorism-696x393.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Iranian regime\u2019s parliament approved all but one of Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s proposed ministers. It was expected that the parliament will act as a rubber-stamp for Raisi and, by extension, for his master, the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has handpicked both the parliament and Raisi\u2019s ministers.\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<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Several of the appointees are prominent members of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/inside-irans-army-of-terror-and-oppression-revolutionary-guards-irgc\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a>, the\u00a0regime\u2019s terrorist entity\u00a0that is responsible for much of the regime\u2019s crackdown on domestic dissent, as well as its support for terrorist proxies throughout the region and the world. The prospective Interior Minister, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/senior-irgc-commander-masterminded-khobar-towers-terror-attack\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ahmad\u00a0Vahidi<\/a>, is even subject to an Interpol arrest warrant stemming from his involvement in the 1994 bombing\u00a0in\u00a0Argentine.<\/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\">While having a figure like Vahidi as the Interior Minister means explicit support of terrorism, it should be recalled that terrorism is an inseparable part of the regime.\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<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">While the regime\u2019s apologists tried to present the previous government as\u00a0moderates,\u00a0that dialogue ultimately served to mask the\u00a0regime\u2019s malign activities\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<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The regime\u2019s previous president, Hassan\u00a0Rouhani himself\u00a0confirmed that the regime\u2019s terrorism and diplomacy go hand in hand. In a\u00a0meeting last April,\u00a0he\u00a0praised the collaboration between the regime\u2019s diplomatic and military personnel. \u201cThe frontline and diplomacy are two arms\u201d of the same strategy, he said after boasting of his own contribution to both sides of this duality. \u201cI am speaking as someone who has been in the Supreme National Security Council for 32 years,\u201d he said.<\/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<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran&rsquo;s future foreign minister pledges to continue path of terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_6LeHY-ph3cE\" 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%2F6LeHY-ph3cE%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6LeHY-ph3cE\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M20S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-08-18T19:17:48Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_6LeHY-ph3cE\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F6LeHY-ph3cE%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran\u2019s future foreign minister pledges to continue path of terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani<\/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\/6LeHY-ph3cE\" 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%2F6LeHY-ph3cE%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran&rsquo;s future foreign minister pledges to continue path of terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"August 2021\u2014Hossein Amir Abdollahian, nominated to become Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s foreign minister, has told the members of the Majlis (parliament) that he will \u201ccontinue the path\u201d of Qassem Soleimani in his foreign policy. Amir Abdollahian said that a lot of his experience was during the time that he \u201ccooperated with Soleimani in the foreign policy domain\u201d and promised to \u201ccontinue Soleimani\u2019s path.\u201d Soleimani was the commander of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) foreign arm, known as the Quds Force. Soleimani was in charge of the regime\u2019s terrorist activities abroad. He directed the regime\u2019s proxy terrorist groups in the region, including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. Soleimani was killed in a drone strike in January 2020 while he was on a secret trip to Iraq. Abdollahian previously served as the Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs under Zarif and had a very close relationship with Soleimani. He has a long history of enabling the regime\u2019s terrorist policies in Iraq and other countries of the region. He was a member of the political-security committee of the Iranian nuclear negotiations team. Amir Abdollahian\u2019s comments come as no surprise. They are a reminder that terrorism and violence is a key pillar of the regime\u2019s diplomacy. In a recent interview, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister of former regime president Hassan Rouhani, acknowledged that the IRGC dominates the regime\u2019s policies, especially foreign strategies. Zarif said 98 percent of the regime\u2019s diplomatic achievements, especially in the Middle East, were accomplished by the Quds Force and especially Soleimani. Read more: https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/hossein-amir-abdollahian-foreign-policy-qassem-soleimani-20210817 *** Content on the PMOI\/MEK&#039;s official YouTube channel is not subject to copyright if the source is mentioned ***\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In 2018, Rouhani\u2019s role in the SNSC\u00a0was highlighted\u00a0following a thwarted Iranian terror attack on a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/guilty-verdict-for-iran-regimes-terrorist-isnt-enough-to-eliminate-threats-to-europe\/\" rel=\"noopener\">gathering<\/a> of\u00a0the Iranian Resistance\u00a0in France. The event, organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, was identified as a high-value target by\u00a0the regime\u2019s\u00a0intelligence in the wake of a nationwide uprising at the beginning of the year, and an Iranian diplomat-terrorist\u00a0named\u00a0Assadollah\u00a0Assadi was tasked with recruiting expatriate operatives to infiltrate it with explosives.<\/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\">Two of Assadi\u2019s co-conspirators were arrested before carrying those explosives from Belgium into France, and he himself was also arrested a day after the operation was meant to take place. They and a fourth co-conspirator were finally convicted and sentenced to prison in Belgium early this year, thereby bringing renewed attention to the regime\u2019s reliance on terrorism as a form of statecraft.\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<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Rouhani\u2019s successor to spearhead even more of this sort of activity, especially in the wake of his appointing notorious human rights abusers and terrorist operatives as his closest advisors. Ebrahim Raisi himself has a particularly shocking history of such abuses, has been one of four members of the Tehran \u201cdeath commission\u201d that led the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988. Although his subsequent contributions to hardline policy largely continued to focus on domestic repression, in recent years he was appointed by Khamenei to head the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/the-role-of-astan-e-quds-razavi-a-key-religious-foundation-in-iranian-regime-s-terrorism-extremist-policies-and-recruitment-of-western-spies\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Astan-e Quds Razavi<\/a> foundation, an entity that routinely provides financing to Islamic terrorists groups and operations.<\/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\">That role placed Raisi in close contact with the main conduits for Tehran\u2019s logistical support of those entities, and this, in turn, may have influenced his choice of cabinet appointees. As far as Iran\u2019s foreign policy and approach to Western interests are concerned, the most important of these appointees is, of course, the Foreign Minister. That office is now occupied by Hossein Amir Abdollahian, whose supposed diplomatic credentials were secured through his service as a deputy minister under Zarif, but whose commitment to terrorism was made clear by decades of service to the IRGC\u2019s foreign special operations division, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/the-iranian-regimes-irgc-quds-force-1980s-present\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Quds Force<\/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\">In his own remarks concerning his confirmation,\u00a0Abdollahian\u00a0boasted to the Iranian parliament on Sunday about having \u201ccooperated with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/who-was-the-vicious-criminal-qassem-soleimani\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Soleimani<\/a> in the foreign policy domain.\u201d Qassem Soleimani was the head of the Quds Force and Iran\u2019s top terrorist operative until he was killed in a January 2020 US drone strike in Iraq, which was motivated by imminent threats of militant attacks on American personnel and US allies. It was, without question, these sorts of attacks that\u00a0Abdollahian\u00a0had in mind when he promised the parliament that he would use the Foreign Ministry to \u201ccontinue Soleimani\u2019s path.\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<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"How the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps IRGC plunders Iran&rsquo;s economy\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_dHjy6OWnrvo\" 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%2FdHjy6OWnrvo%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dHjy6OWnrvo\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M45S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-09-10T16:00:16Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_dHjy6OWnrvo\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FdHjy6OWnrvo%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">How the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps IRGC plunders Iran\u2019s economy<\/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\/dHjy6OWnrvo\" 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%2FdHjy6OWnrvo%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"How the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps IRGC plunders Iran&rsquo;s economy\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"September 2020\u2014How the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps plunders Iran\u2019s economy The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was established in the early 1980s From day one, the IRGC has been engaged in the suppression of regime dissidents The IRGC was also one of the regime\u2019s main forces in the Iran-Iraq War, as part of the regime\u2019s \u201cQuds through Karbala\u201d campaign Following the war, having no pretext to keep the IRGC active, the regime permitted the Corps\u2019 entry into Iran\u2019s economy The IRGC\u2019s \u201cKhatam-al Anbiya Construction Headquarters\u201d became involved in Iran\u2019s construction industry In six years, Khatam-al Anbiya earned a whopping &#36;2 billion through its holdings Khatam-al Anbiya bought Iran\u2019s &#36;45-billion state communications company at less than &#36;8 billion Khatam-al Anbiya received billions in government loans for its factories. The money, however, was used in other investments. To this day, Khatam-al Anbiya has signed many government contracts without ever participating in the tender process. Khatam-al Anbiya is merely one of the IRGC\u2019s sectors enjoying significant influence in Iran\u2019s economy Iran\u2019s economy is being plundered by the IRGC &amp; other military sectors\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Such transparently threatening rhetoric would be cause for alarm under any circumstances. But it is made much more alarming by the fact that it stands in contrast to the comparatively silent threats and smiling diplomacy of the Rouhani administration, which nonetheless oversaw an attempted bombing that might have become the worst Iranian terrorist attack on European soil.<\/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\">Had it not been thwarted, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/irans-2018-terror-plot-reveals-extent-of-the-regimes-global-impunity\/\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 bomb plot<\/a> would have certainly claimed hundreds if not thousands of lives. Furthermore, the victims would have most likely included not just Iranian dissidents but also any number of the European and American dignitaries who attended the rally and conference\u00a0in order to\u00a0demonstrate that they understand the threat that the clerical regime poses, regardless of who holds the office of president or controls the various government ministries.<\/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\">Now\u00a0Tehran can be expected to exhibit the same aggression both at home and abroad, in the years ahead as it did in the final years of the Rouhani administration. It can also be expected to do so in\u00a0absence\u00a0of the diplomatic cover provided by the likes of Javad Zarif.<\/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\">The international community\u00a0will\u00a0have a much more difficult time engaging in\u00a0normal\u00a0dialogue with\u00a0a government led by\u00a0figures who are under warrant from\u00a0Interpol, or\u00a0committed to \u201cfollowing the path\u201d of Iran\u2019s greatest terrorist, or credibly implicated in the massacre of 30,000 Iranian dissidents. In the face of that leadership, Western policies toward\u00a0Tehran\u00a0will have to treat the regime as it is, not as na\u00efve lawmakers would like it to be.<\/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><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\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Iranian regime&rsquo;s parliament approved all but one of Ebrahim Raisi&rsquo;s proposed ministers. 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