{"id":247830,"date":"2021-09-26T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T16:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=247830"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:41:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:41:46","slug":"intl-community-must-not-embrace-raisi-and-a-regime-rejected-by-irans-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/intl-community-must-not-embrace-raisi-and-a-regime-rejected-by-irans-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Int\u2019l Community Must Not Embrace Raisi and a Regime Rejected by Iran\u2019s People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-ebrahim-Raisi\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-247838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Iran-ebrahim-Raisi.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-ebrahim-Raisi\" width=\"1000\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Iran-ebrahim-Raisi.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Iran-ebrahim-Raisi-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Iran-ebrahim-Raisi-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Iran-ebrahim-Raisi-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Iran-ebrahim-Raisi-696x458.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Iranian people boycotted the regime\u2019s sham presidential election. Nevertheless, the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, pulled <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/who-is-ebrahim-raisi-ncr-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> out of the ballot box despite the massive boycott of the Iranian people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s designation as the next president was met with public protests which condemned him as the \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">henchman of 1988<\/a>\u201d and also highlighted his more recent contribution to the regime\u2019s record of human rights abuses when he served as head of the judiciary from March 2019 until after his presidential \u201cselection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Chief among those recent abuses was the crackdown on a nationwide uprising that broke out in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener\">November 2019<\/a> and revived anti-regime slogans like \u201cdeath to the dictator\u201d which had defined a prior uprising in January 2018. Panicked by the persistent signs of popular support for regime change, Iranian authorities opened fire on crowds of protesters at the outset of the latter uprising. According to the Iranian Resistance, over 1,500 people were killed in this way; and that figure was later confirmed by a Reuters report that cited sources from within Iran\u2019s Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Later, Amnesty International published a report on the crackdown under the title \u201cTrampling Humanity.\u201d It detailed how in the aftermath of the mass shootings, Raisi\u2019s judiciary oversaw the systematic torture of political detainees, over a period of several months in facilities all across Iran. Although precise details remain elusive, there is little doubt that that repressive campaign expanded the death toll well beyond the initial 1,500. Yet regardless of what the final death toll from the 2019 crackdown turns out to be, it will still pale in comparison to the death toll from one of the single worst crimes against humanity to take place anywhere during the latter half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-246866 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\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png 250w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1-150x50.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Raisi\u2019s label as the \u201chenchman of 1988\u201d stems from his role as one of four officials to serve on the Tehran \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/iran-1988-massacre-death-commissions\/\" rel=\"noopener\">death commission<\/a>\u201d that was created in response to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/iran-1988-massacre\/\" rel=\"noopener\">fatwa<\/a> targeting the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener\">Mujahedin-e Khalq<\/a> (MEK) and other dedicated opponents of the theocratic dictatorship. In it, the regime\u2019s founder and first supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, declared all members of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\/\" rel=\"noopener\">MEK<\/a> guilty of \u201cenmity against God\u201d and ordered subordinate officials to kill them systematically and without mercy. The procedures established by the Tehran death commission were soon emulated in various other cities over the course of three months, and the nationwide death toll among political prisoners climbed to above 30,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Raisi is bears a great deal of the responsibility for individual killings as well as the overall scale of the massacre. In a conference in Stockholm on Tuesday, coinciding with Raisi\u2019s speech to the United Nations General Assembly, a former Iranian political prisoner by the name of<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-election\/iran-election-2021-former-mek-political-prisoners-shed-light-on-ebrahim-raisis-criminal-record\/\" rel=\"noopener\"> Nasrollah Marandi<\/a> said, \u201cMost of us who were in Evin and Gohardasht prisons saw Ebrahim Raisi in the death commission, and he sent thousands of prisoners to the gallows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Many of our friends witnessed the execution of many [MEK] members by Raisi in Hamedan and Karaj.\u201d Marandi then added that the international community\u2019s apparent embrace of Raisi\u2019s presidency was a \u201cbetrayal to the ideals of democracy and human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Iranian activists highlighted that betrayal on the day of Raisi\u2019s inauguration by criticizing the European Union for sending Enrique Mora, the deputy political director of the European External Action Service, to attend the ceremony and help legitimize the Raisi administration in the eyes of the West. This, of course, stood in direct contrast to the message that the Iranian people and the Iranian Resistance had sent with their organized boycott of the sham presidential election, and all the attendant public protests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The EU\u2019s mistake was not just ignoring the will of the Iranian people, but also reinforcing a longstanding sense of impunity enjoyed by the entire clerical regime. One of the earliest contributors to that impunity was the international neglect of the 1988 massacre. The surge in politically motivated killings around that time was a matter of public record, and was even mentioned in a UN resolution on Iran\u2019s human rights at the end of that year. However, as a group of UN human rights experts noted in an open letter last year, all relevant UN bodies failed to follow up on that resolution in any meaningful way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The letter acknowledged that this failure \u201chad a devastating impact on the survivors and families as well as on the general situation of human rights in Iran.\u201d Tehran\u2019s impunity with regard to the 1988 massacre and human rights in general has translated into an expectation of the same impunity with regard to all of its other malign activities.<br \/>\nThis is reflected in the entire composition of the Raisi administration. While his appointment, in and of itself, is arguably the regime\u2019s most blatant endorsement of the 1988 massacre, the subsequent appointment of cabinet ministers and heads of government agencies reflects similar endorsement of crimes and provocations whose consequences extend far beyond the borders of Iran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\nThe new head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/uncategorized\/whos-mohammad-eslami-a-totally-irrelevant-choice-or-a-perfect-match\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammad Eslami<\/a>, has no scientific qualifications but has been involved in the procurement of equipment and know-how with applications to weaponization since the earliest days of Iran\u2019s nuclear program. The vast majority of Raisi\u2019s advisors have previously served high in the ranks of the Islamic <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/inside-irans-army-of-terror-and-oppression-revolutionary-guards-irgc-part-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Revolutionary Guard<\/a> Corps, often with a focus on extraterritorial operations and the support of regional terrorist groups. The new Interior Minister, Ahmad Vahidi, is even subject to an Interpol arrest warrant as a result of being directly implicated in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association building in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In August, after Raisi announced more than a dozen cabinet appointments, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about-ncri\/alternative\/\" rel=\"noopener\">NCRI\u2019s<\/a> Presdident-elect Mrs. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/maryam-rajavi\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a> described the emerging administration as \u201cthe embodiment of four decades of mullahs\u2019 religious dictatorship and terrorism, whose primary mission is to confront the people\u2019s uprising, and to plunder the national wealth, step up terrorism and warmongering, and expand the unpatriotic nuclear and ballistic missile programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In subsequent speeches, Mrs. Rajavi reiterated her calls for more assertive Western policies toward the clerical regime, as well as measures leading to Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s international prosecution for his role in the 1988 massacre. In absence of such a policy shift, Tehran\u2019s sense of impunity is sure to become even more fixed, with severe consequences for the Iranian people and the international community alike.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian people boycotted the regime&rsquo;s sham presidential election. 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