{"id":247050,"date":"2021-09-16T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T17:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=247050"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:45:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:45:26","slug":"editorial-iran-un-must-shun-mass-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/ebrahim-raisi\/editorial-iran-un-must-shun-mass-murderer\/","title":{"rendered":"EDITORIAL: UN Must Shun Iran\u2019s Mass Murderer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ebrahim Raisi was involved in the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Iranian regime’s president, Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>, is scheduled to take his first trip abroad on Thursday. According to state-run media, Raisi is slated to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tajikistan. This is despite the fact that Raisi is on the US sanctions list because he is a serial human rights abuser.<\/p>\n

Since Raisi’s installment as the illegitimate mullahs’ president, there have been ringing condemnations and growing calls by human rights organizations for his prosecution as a criminal. In 1988, he was involved in the massacre<\/a> of 30,000 political prisoners, most of whom were members of the main opposition Mujahedin<\/a>-e Khalq (MEK<\/a>). The victims’ families have been seeking justice for the past 33 years.<\/p>\n

But the culture of impunity<\/a> that has reigned in Tehran for criminals and human rights abusers has allowed the rise of Raisi to one of the most senior positions in the clerical regime. As the global rights group Amnesty International declared, “That Ebrahim Raisi 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

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