{"id":25928,"date":"2019-03-08T07:33:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T07:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/25928-khamenei-appoints-ebrahim-raisi-member-of-death-committee-in-massacre-of-political-prisoners-as-head-of-regimes-judiciary"},"modified":"2023-01-20T00:02:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T23:02:51","slug":"khamenei-appoints-ebrahim-raisi-member-of-death-committee-in-massacre-of-political-prisoners-as-head-of-regimes-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/khamenei-appoints-ebrahim-raisi-member-of-death-committee-in-massacre-of-political-prisoners-as-head-of-regimes-judiciary\/","title":{"rendered":"Khamenei Appoints Ebrahim Raisi, Member of Death Committee in Massacre of Political Prisoners, as Head of Regimes&#8217; Judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Khamenei_Appoints_Ibrahim_Raisi_Member_of_Death_Committee_in_Massacre_of_Political_Prisoners_as_Head_of_Regimes_Judiciary\" class=\" size-full wp-image-52834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/Khamenei_Appoints_Ibrahim_Raisi_Member_of_Death_Committee_in_Massacre_of_Political_Prisoners_as_Head_of_Regimes_Judiciary.jpg\" alt=\"Khamenei Appoints Ibrahim Raisi, Member of Death Committee in Massacre of Political Prisoners, as Head of Regimes' Judiciary\" width=\"1000\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Khamenei_Appoints_Ibrahim_Raisi_Member_of_Death_Committee_in_Massacre_of_Political_Prisoners_as_Head_of_Regimes_Judiciary.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Khamenei_Appoints_Ibrahim_Raisi_Member_of_Death_Committee_in_Massacre_of_Political_Prisoners_as_Head_of_Regimes_Judiciary-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Khamenei_Appoints_Ibrahim_Raisi_Member_of_Death_Committee_in_Massacre_of_Political_Prisoners_as_Head_of_Regimes_Judiciary-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Khamenei_Appoints_Ibrahim_Raisi_Member_of_Death_Committee_in_Massacre_of_Political_Prisoners_as_Head_of_Regimes_Judiciary-696x382.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"a-50\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-50455\" style=\"margin: 5px;float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/a-50.png\" alt=\"a-50\" width=\"75\" height=\"69\" \/><\/strong><\/em>Today, Ali Khamenei, leader of Iran\u2019s religious dictatorship, appointed Ebrahim Raisi, a member of the Death Committee in the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, and a devoted supporter of the supreme leader, as head of Iran\u2019s judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Raisi should be subject to international prosecution for committing crimes against humanity in the massacre of political prisoners in 1988, and tried for genocide of PMOI members. His appointment as the highest judicial authority of the clerical regime signals a hard turn to even more repression by the clerical regime against the Iranian people and resistance. Khamenei described his appointment as a &#8220;new era&#8221; and the \u201csecond stage\u201d of the regime\u2019s so-called revolution, and ordered Raisi not \u201cto pay heed to outsiders when dealing with judicial matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1988, Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Khomeini\u2019s successor at the time, and a higher-ranking cleric than Khamenei and his minions, summoned members of the Death Committee including Raisi. Montazeri addressed them in a meeting that was recorded and later published, stating, \u201cThe greatest crime committed under the Islamic Republic, for which history will condemn us, has been committed by you. Your (names) will in the future be etched in the annals of history as criminals.\u201d<br \/>\nIn addition to committing a major crime in the 1988 massacre, Raisi is a low ranking cleric without adequate religious credentials. He is under the control of Khamenei and has been serving in the regime&#8217;s repressive agencies since the age of twenty. Appointing him as the head of the regime&#8217;s judiciary will prove unacceptable for many government-affiliated clerics. During the sham presidential elections in May 2017, the regime\u2019s rank-and-file clerics refused to support Raisi despite coercive pressure by Khamenei. Rouhani, who competed against Raisi during the sham elections, said of Raisi that he was one of those who \u201conly knew execution and prisons for 38 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khamenei, who was deeply concerned about the public reception of Raisi\u2019s appointment, prepared the grounds by disseminating rumors for a while. Despite negative domestic and international reactions, however, he ordered the appointment of Raisi as the head of the regime&#8217;s judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Raisi\u2019s appointment by Khamenei proves once again that as the head of the crisis-stricken theocratic regime, he finds no other solution than a hard turn towards further repression in order to contain the crisis of the coming new Iranian year (staring March 21, 2019). Khamenei thus wants to barricade his clerical regime against the uprising of the Iranian people and their organized resistance for justice and freedom in Iran.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>March 7, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Ali Khamenei, leader of Iran&rsquo;s religious dictatorship, appointed Ebrahim Raisi, a member of the Death Committee in the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, and a devoted supporter [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":52834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,511],"tags":[178],"class_list":{"0":"post-25928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-statement-human-rights","8":"category-ebrahim-raisi","9":"tag-save"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This 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