{"id":250743,"date":"2021-11-14T08:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T13:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=250743"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T14:40:55","slug":"anniversary-of-major-iran-protests-is-a-chance-for-world-to-speak-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/uncategorized\/anniversary-of-major-iran-protests-is-a-chance-for-world-to-speak-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of Major Iran Protests Is a Chance for World To Speak Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This month marks the second anniversary of the major Iran protests. In mid-November 2019, residents of nearly 200 Iranian cities and towns took part in a nationwide uprising that featured slogans like \u201cdeath to the dictator\u201d and other gestures of support for regime change. Immediately, the regime\u2019s security forces were ordered to open fire on crowds of those protesters, killing 1,500<\/a> in a matter of days and sparking a broader crackdown that would see countless activists tortured over a period of several months.<\/p>\n

The head of the judiciary at the time, and thus the ultimate overseer of all that torture, was Ebrahim Raisi, a clerical judge who had served the regime by justifying a wide range of human rights abuses since shortly after the 1979 revolution.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 1988, Raisi<\/a> became one of four officials to sit on the Tehran \u201cdeath commission\u201d that was tasked with implementing a fatwa by then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini. Raisi and his colleagues interrogated thousands of political prisoners over their political views and affiliations, then ordered the summary execution of anyone deemed insufficiently loyal to the regime and thus, in Khomeini\u2019s words, guilty of \u201cenmity against God.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Iran Protests: Nationwide Uprising in Iran- November 2019<\/div><\/div>
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