{"id":248176,"date":"2021-10-01T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=248176"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:34:37","slug":"iran-raisis-cabinet-and-a-need-for-an-assertive-policy-toward-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/ebrahim-raisi\/iran-raisis-cabinet-and-a-need-for-an-assertive-policy-toward-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Raisi\u2019s Cabinet and a Need for an Assertive Policy Toward Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Raisi-Cabinet-Terrorists\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-244929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Raisi-Cabinet-Terrorists.jpg\" alt=\"Raisi-Cabinet-Terrorists\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Raisi-Cabinet-Terrorists.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Raisi-Cabinet-Terrorists-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Raisi-Cabinet-Terrorists-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Raisi-Cabinet-Terrorists-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Raisi-Cabinet-Terrorists-696x461.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After assuming office on August 5, the Iranian regime\u2019s president <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/who-is-ebrahim-raisi-ncr-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> has handpicked a government of criminals and terrorists, including individuals who are under sanction by both US, the EU, and even the United Nations.<br \/>\nBy appointing such figures as cabinet ministers and the heads of government agencies, Raisi conveys a commitment to repeating the same malign behaviors, with help from high-ranking issues who are well-practiced in those areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Some members of Raisi\u2019s administration were appointed despite having been sanctioned multiple times over the years, on account of their high-level involvement in multiple projects that pose a threat to international peace and stability, as well as the lives of the Iranian people themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/iran-raisi-appoints-head-of-the-plundering-cartel-eiko-as-1st-vice-president-and-a-henchman-as-his-chief-of-staff\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammad Mokhber<\/a>, who is now serving as Raisi\u2019s first vice president, was sanctioned by the EU in 2010 for his role in the regime&#8217;s acquisition of material and know-how related to nuclear proliferation and the development of ballistic missile stockpiles. The following year, he was also sanctioned by the EU for human rights abuses he committed as head of Iran\u2019s Prisons Organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In 2016, Mokhber was blacklisted by the US Treasury Department over the role he played in financing illicit projects by seizing the assets of political dissidents and members of ethnic and religious minorities. This describes the essential function of the institution known as Execution of Imam Khomeini\u2019s Order, which Mokhber was placed in charge of in 2007. According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/primer-the-history-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-iran\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a>, Mokhber\u2019s leadership of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/economy\/execution-of-imam-khomeinis-order-eiko-a-pillar-of-khameneis-economic-empire-in-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">EIKO<\/a> coincided with the transfer of billions of dollars in assets, mainly to projects being led by the regime\u2019s <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 Guards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sanctions targets aside, Raisi\u2019s administration is comprised of an unprecedented number of IRGC officers, signifying a particular commitment to the regime\u2019s malign policies and practices both at home and abroad, such as obtaining a nuclear weapon.<br \/>\nIt is, therefore, no surprise that the sanctions looming over members of Raisi\u2019s administration include sanctions for nuclear proliferation activities. Mokhber is one example, but another much more telling example is Mohammad Eslami, whom Raisi appointed to head the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Eslami was involved in weaponization aspects of the regime\u2019s nuclear program practically since its inception, has held meetings in the 1980s aimed at acquiring equipment and designs from Abdul Qadir Khan, the father of Pakistan\u2019s nuclear weapons program.<br \/>\nAs long ago as those early contributions were, Eslami\u2019s involvement in Tehran\u2019s nuclear project has evidently never ceased, and in 2008 the UN-sanctioned him under resolution 1803 for \u201cbeing engaged in, directly associated with or providing support for Iran\u2019s proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities or for the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems.\u201d At the time, Eslami was serving as head of Iran\u2019s Defense Industries Training and Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today, he is tasked with overseeing all of the regime\u2019s nuclear enrichment activities \u2013 activities that have come to include enrichment of uranium to 60 percent fissile purity, just a very short technical step away from weapons-grade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Western powers and the entire international community should be deeply alarmed by this. For one thing, it allows Eslami to bring all of his prior experience with military technology to bear on the nuclear activities that Tehran has always dubiously insisted are civilian in nature. For another thing, it signals open defiance of the sanctions that should have seriously constrained Eslami\u2019s political career, as well as the political careers of several persons who are now serving alongside him in the Raisi administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Such defiance underscores the fact that Western policies toward the mullahs\u2019 regime have remained feckless and conciliatory for so long that Tehran now feels confident in its ability to escalate sanction-able activities while experiencing no real consequences. This sentiment is dangerous enough to global stability if the activities in question are limited to nuclear proliferation, missile development, and domestic human rights abuses. It is all the more dangerous if those activities also include foreign terrorism, which they very clearly do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Apparently not content to defy international will just through the appointment of sanctioned officials to cabinet positions, Raisi has also included in his administration at least one individual who is subject to an international arrest warrant based on his past involvement in terrorist acts. Ahmad Vahidi has been directly implicated in the bombing of an Israeli community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which killed 85 people in 1994. It is only one of many violent incidents in which he played a role as commander of the IRGC\u2019s foreign special operations division, the Quds Force, around that time. And with so many other IRGC officers represented in Raisi\u2019s cabinet, a number of them have been implicated in the same acts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This would be a giant red flag for the international community under any circumstances. It is an even greater cause for alarm at the present historical moment when the Iranian regime is facing mounting threats from both at home and abroad and is poised to lash out in the most desperate fashion to counter those threats.<br \/>\nAlready, Tehran has conducted its worst single crackdown on dissent in recent years, having killed 1,500 peaceful protesters and arrested thousands of others in the midst of a nationwide <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" rel=\"noopener\">uprising<\/a> in late 2019, when Ebrahim Raisi was head of the judiciary. And in response to a previous uprising at the beginning of 2018, the regime orchestrated a bomb plot targeting the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/about-ncri\/ncri\/alternative\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Iranian Resistance\u2019s<\/a> gathering outside of Paris.<a href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><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\">The 2018 terror plot was thwarted and eventually led to prison terms for the regime\u2019s diplomat-terrorist, Assadollah Assadi, and his three co-conspirators. But both the foreign and the domestic attacks on organized activist groups hearkened back to a prior era of unrestrained political violence, during which 30,000 political prisoners were killed in the space of about three months <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners-in-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener\">in 1988<\/a>. That massacre also heavily featured Raisi\u2019s handiwork, as he was one of four officials sitting on the Tehran \u201cdeath commission\u201d that oversaw executions in Evin and Gohardasht Prisons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It is no wonder that such a figure would handpick such a government that its ministers are under sanctions by the international community over various actions that demonstrate the same underlying impulse to safeguard and expand the regime\u2019s power regardless of cost or consequences. The only way Raisi and his government will ever deny that impulse is if the cost and consequences imposed on it by the international community are serious enough to undermine the regime\u2019s longstanding sense of impunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After assuming office on August 5, the Iranian regime&rsquo;s president Ebrahim Raisi has handpicked a government of criminals and terrorists, including individuals who are under sanction by both US, the 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