{"id":246988,"date":"2021-09-15T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=246988"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:45:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:45:29","slug":"iran-ebrahim-raisis-planned-speech-to-un-is-a-threat-to-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/ebrahim-raisi\/iran-ebrahim-raisis-planned-speech-to-un-is-a-threat-to-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s Planned Speech to UN is a Threat to Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran\u2019s \u201cButcher\u201d President Lacks Legitimacy To Speak at Un General Assembly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since the Iranian regime\u2019s Supreme Leader chose Ebrahim Raisi as president, they have been mounting calls for his prosecution and preventing him from state visits. So far, however, those appeals have largely fallen on deaf ears. Raisi is now scheduled to address the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on September 21, and his remarks will supposedly deal with themes of justice and freedom \u2013 terms that are far removed from the daily experience of Iranian citizens and the core identity of Iran\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n

That identity has been reinforced in recent weeks by the appointment and legislative confirmation of a number of high-level officials<\/a> whose terrorist bona fides match those of the president himself. Raisi\u2019s cabinet includes an unprecedented number of officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, several individuals who are presently under sanction by the United States and the European Union, and one who is subject to an Interpol warrant for his involvement in a 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires<\/a> which killed 85 people.<\/p>\n

Raisi, too, was sanctioned by the US in 2019. There is no warrant for his arrest in any country, but the reason for the sanctions against him could also be grounds for his arrest by authorities in practically any country in the world. This was explained last month by multiple scholars of human rights and international law, in a virtual conference organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran to serve as a venue for discussion of the 1988 massacre<\/a> of political prisoners.<\/p>\n

The conference focused on the role that Raisi played in those killings. For the families of victims, for other Iranian regime officials, and for the Resistance Movement working to overturn the system that has supported the massacre\u2019s perpetrators for more than three decades, Raisi\u2019s prosecution<\/a> would be a powerful sign that the regime\u2019s impunity in such matters is finally at an end.<\/p>\n

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Raisi, Butcher of 1988 Massacre in Iran<\/div><\/div>
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