{"id":262358,"date":"2022-08-15T11:02:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T09:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=262358"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T09:17:58","slug":"irans-regime-president-in-un-general-assembly-will-promote-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/irans-regime-president-in-un-general-assembly-will-promote-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime President in UN General Assembly Will Promote Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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El presidente de Ir\u00e1n Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi habla en una grabaci\u00f3n en la Asamblea General de la ONU. EFE\/EPA\/TIMOTHY A. CLARY \/ POOL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier this month, it was reported that the Iranian regime President Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> would likely be granted a visa to visit New York for the United Nations General Assembly. That news was soon followed by the revelation of an indictment-in-absentia for an Iranian operative who had plotted the assassinations<\/a> of former US national security advisor John Bolton and former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. This, in turn, was followed by an attack on the author Salman Rushdie<\/a> in Western New York State, which served as a reminder of the fatwa from Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian regime’s first supreme leader called for Rushdie’s death in 1989.<\/p>\n

Thirty-three years after that fatwa was issued, the threat of Iran-backed extremism and terrorist activity remains as prevalent as ever. The latest incidents underscore this fact while also highlighting the role that Raisi has had in amplifying the threat since he was installed in that position in June of last year. Many people familiar with Iranian affairs were quick to warn of the impact that Raisi would likely have on all of the regime’s malign activities, but there was little response to those warnings from the leadership of the United States or the European Union at the time.<\/p>\n

Raisi’s prospective attendance at the UN General Assembly suggests that Western policymakers’ are still not taking those warnings seriously, even as they continue to be validated by developments inside Iran.<\/p>\n

Even before Raisi was formally inaugurated last August, it was clear that the regime’s repression efforts at repressing dissent and intimidating the public were already accelerating. The first half of 2022 has seen more than twice as many executions as the first half of 2021 \u2013 a particularly chilling statistic in light of the fact that Iran is the undisputed world leader in terms of annual executions per capita. And this does not even consider those prisoners, including political prisoners, who die each year due to harsh conditions and deliberate denial of access to life-saving medical treatment in Iranian detention facilities.<\/p>\n

There have been countless reports of this sort of mistreatment over the past year, alongside countless reports of politically-motivated arrests against the backdrop of continuous anti-government protests. The worsening climate of repression is exactly what one might have expected under the Raisi administration, in light of his legacy as a clerical judge, public prosecutor, and most recently, chief justice of the country’s judiciary.<\/p>\n

In 1988, Raisi played a leading role in the massacre<\/a> of 30,000 political prisoners, serving as one of four members of the Tehran \u201cdeath commission<\/a>\u201d who were tasked with interrogating detainees at Evin and Gohardasht Prisons to ascertain whether they had any lingering sympathies with the leading pro-democracy opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>). The death commission’s mandate originated with another fatwa like the one that would be levied against Rushdie the following year, except in this case, the target of Ayatollah Khomeini\u2019s death sentence was an entire segment of the domestic population that opposed tyrannical theocracy.<\/p>\n

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Raisi, Butcher of 1988 Massacre in Iran<\/div><\/div>
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