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By: Alejo Vidal-Quadras<\/strong><\/p>\n

An envoy of the European Union began<\/a> direct talks with Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Thursday as Western signatories of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal continue to push for the agreement\u2019s restoration despite concerns<\/a> over the Iranian government\u2019s hardline turn following the inauguration of\u00a0the regime\u2019s\u00a0President Ebrahim\u00a0Raisi<\/a> in August. Talks over the prospective restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)<\/a> began in April but stalled in June when Raisi was \u201celected\u201d via a process boycotted by the vast majority of Iran\u2019s eligible voters. Enrique Mora\u2019s visit to Tehran is aimed at establishing a timetable for the resumption of those talks in Vienna, but Tehran has been noticeably vague about its relevant intentions and expectations.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian<\/a>\u00a0stated once again that Iran was prepared to approve new talks \u201csoon,\u201d but also emphasized that the regime\u2019s priority remains the\u00a0confirmation of Western measures aimed at suspending US sanctions. Although the US has proposed a number of arrangements under which those sanctions would be suspended gradually in exchange for Iran\u2019s gradual return to compliance with the JCPOA,\u00a0the Iranian regime has continually insisted that it will not reverse any of its many nuclear provocations until after the US has already suspended all sanctions. Amir-Abdollahian\u2019s\u00a0commitment to that position makes it very unlikely that Mora will be able to establish a timetable unless he can first provide Tehran with the guarantees it has demanded.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, Mora\u2019s visit to Tehran appears to reflect the EU\u2019s naivety regarding the prospects for any progress\u00a0with the\u00a0Raisi\u00a0administration. Worse still, that naivety\u00a0is likely to have adverse impacts on the administration\u2019s long-term behavior with implications not only for global security but also for the welfare of the Iranian people themselves. The implications also include a threat to the EU\u2019s legitimacy as a defender of universal human rights principles. This is because Mora\u2019s visit constitutes his second direct affirmation of legitimacy for an Iranian president who has been implicated in some of the worst human rights abuses in the history of the\u00a0Iranian regime.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even as Mora was traveling to Tehran, Iranian expatriates living in the United Kingdom were issuing formal appeals for\u00a0Raisi\u2019s\u00a0arrest. Those appeals emerged in response to the news that\u00a0Raisi\u00a0might be traveling to Glasgow for the COP26 climate change<\/a> conference in early November. This would be one of his first foreign visits as a head of state and it would effectively affirm the Western embrace of bidirectional travel in service of diplomacy with the new\u00a0Iranian\u00a0administration.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That position was very nearly affirmed in September when the United Nations held its annual General Assembly and extended an offer for\u00a0Raisi\u00a0to deliver a speech as part of the gathering.\u00a0Raisi\u00a0did\u00a0so, but\u00a0remained in Tehran and submitted the speech remotely despite the fact that Mora had visited Tehran the previous month to attend\u00a0Raisi\u2019s\u00a0inauguration.\u00a0Raisi\u2019s\u00a0reluctance to travel led to some speculation that he might have feared arrest upon setting foot on Western soil, but the persistent and extent of that fear will\u00a0be tested in the coming weeks as Western government\u2019s respond to the appeals from Iranian expatriates and their political supporters.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Those appeals primarily stem from\u00a0Raisi\u2019s\u00a0participation in what has been called the \u201cworst crime of the Islamic Republic,\u201d and one of the world\u2019s worst crimes against humanity since the end of World War II. In the summer of 1988<\/a>,\u00a0Raisi\u00a0served as one of four key figures on the Tehran \u201cdeath\u00a0commission\u201d that oversaw implementation of a fatwa in which Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the mass killing of any political prisoners who were believed to still support the main democratic opposition group, the People\u2019s\u00a0Mojahedin\u00a0Organization of Iran\u00a0(PMOI\/MEK<\/a>).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As one of the first individuals to interrogate prisoners over their views and affiliations before ordering executions,\u00a0Raisi\u00a0helped to set the pace of proceedings when they expanded to prisons\u00a0all across\u00a0the country. In fact, Khomeini was so impressed with\u00a0Raisi\u2019s\u00a0commitment to a broad application of his order that he\u00a0instructed\u00a0the former Tehran deputy prosecutor to also oversee proceedings in several other cities during the massacre to correct the perceived \u201cweakness of the judiciary.\u201d It is estimated that at the end of about three months more than 30,000 political prisoners had been killed, most of whom were then buried in secret mass graves.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The international community has known about this massacre since it was still\u00a0ongoing\u00a0and the UN even mentioned\u00a0the uptick in killings as part of its resolution on Iran\u2019s human rights record at the end of 1988. Last year, several UN human rights experts called attention to that resolution in an open letter to Iranian authorities and condemned the international body for its failure to follow up on the issue. This, they said, \u201chad a devastating impact on the families and survivors\u201d of the massacre\u00a0and also\u00a0emboldened the regime to commit further human rights abuses on the expectation that it would be able to cover them up and face little to no consequences.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Raisi\u2019s\u00a0appointment to the presidency is no doubt a consequence of the resulting sense of impunity. Western powers risk reinforcing that impunity with any measures they take to legitimize the\u00a0Raisi\u00a0administration. Mora\u2019s visit to Tehran is therefore a betrayal of the EU\u2019s commitment to basic human rights principles and if the EU leadership will not correct that mistake by taking an assertive stance against the\u00a0Raisi\u00a0administration, then the responsibility falls to individual European states.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Scotland has an opportunity to lead the way by publicly embracing the calls for an investigation into\u00a0Raisi’s\u00a0past human rights abuses and making it clear that\u00a0he\u00a0may yet face arrest if he sets foot on Western soil. This is made possible by the principle of universal jurisdiction which allows for any nation to initiate prosecution for a citizen of another nation if there is\u00a0evidence\u00a0they are guilty of the most serious violations of international law. There is no question that the 1988 massacre, which some legal scholars have even labeled as genocide, fits this description.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Dr.-Alejo-Vidal-Quadras\"
Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a Spanish professor of atomic and nuclear physics, was vice-president of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2014. He is currently president of the Brussels-based\u00a0International Committee in Search of Justice<\/a>\u00a0(ISJ)<\/em><\/p>\n

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