{"id":248092,"date":"2021-09-30T11:37:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=248092"},"modified":"2023-02-01T04:41:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:41:32","slug":"iran-after-swiss-courts-ruling-the-world-must-continue-to-challenge-tehrans-impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-after-swiss-courts-ruling-the-world-must-continue-to-challenge-tehrans-impunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: After Swiss Court\u2019s Ruling the World Must Continue To Challenge Tehran\u2019s Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On September 23, the Swiss Federal Criminal Court issued a ruling which halted the planned closure of the assassination case of Dr. Kazem Rajavi. Dr. Rajavi was assassinated in 1990 near his Geneva home by a 13-member hit squad<\/a> acting upon orders from the regime\u2019s top authorities. Dr. Rajavi was a representative to Switzerland for the National Council of Resistance of Iran. The perpetrators were promptly identified, but not before fleeing back to Iran. No willing authority has ever been able to execute the arrest warrants for the operatives or their handler.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After the public prosecutor for the Swiss canton of Vaud announced the imminent closure of the case, the Iranian opposition\u2019s attorneys argued in court that the killing of Dr. Rajavi was not merely an act of murder but was part of a much larger crime that could be prosecuted at the international court as an instance of genocide. His assassination came two years after the massacre<\/a> of political prisoners during the summer of 1988.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The assassination of\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Rajavi was carried out in accordance with the same fatwa which underlay the 1988 massacre \u2013 one in which then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini declared that all members and supporters of the\u00a0Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK)\u00a0were guilty of \u201cenmity against God\u201d and should therefore be\u00a0executed without delay. The fatwa named the\u00a0MEK, or who opposed the regime\u2019s fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. Therefore,\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Rajavi\u2019s killing can also be linked to a series of other assassinations that took place during the same era, all of which represent the regime\u2019s effort to wipe out\u00a0the organized Iranian Resistance Movement.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Assassination of Kazem Rajavi to be investigated in context of \u201cgenocide,\u201d Swiss court rules<\/div><\/div>
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