North Korea is in the international news spotlight because of its mutual
saber-rattling with Donald Trump, and the widely publicized test of a
long-range ballistic missile. But it is critical to point out that these
events are equally significant in relation to Iran and the threat it
poses to peace and stability.
Iran is North Korea’s major partner in the sale, transfer and
proliferation of ballistic missile technology. Iran’s missiles are
copies of North Korea’s. Both countries flout international law, sponsor
terrorism and employ military hardware such as ballistic missiles to
threaten the security and interests of other nations.
Tehran already has long-range ballistic missiles that can hit any
country in the Middle East and US bases in the region. Iran’s generals
have frequently boasted about these capabilities and have test-fired
missiles carrying provocative messages such as “Death to Israel.”
But Iran is not satisfied with what it has. The Iranian Revolutionary
Guard Corps (IRGC), which oversees the program, is aggressively pursuing
technology that could lead to the development of an intercontinental
ballistic missile. North Korean engineers are in Iran helping the IRGC
to advance its ballistic missile arsenal and develop nuclear warheads.
With ICBMs, Iran would have the ability to strike anywhere in the world,
and a major reason for acquiring them is as a delivery tool for nuclear
weapons. In addition, an Iranian ICBM could easily fall into the hands
of Tehran’s militias and proxies across the region, a significant threat
to peace and security.
Iran recently launched another missile on the pretext of advancing its
“space and satellite program.” The launch received scant attention
because the eyes off the world are on North Korea, but the US and three
of its European allies nevertheless described the test as provocative
and urged Iran to stop all its ballistic missile activity.
A joint statement by Britain, France, Germany and the US said Iran’s
ballistic missile program was inconsistent with a UN security council
resolution and had a destabilizing effect in the region. “We call on
Iran not to conduct any further ballistic missile launches and related
activities … We condemn this action,” the four countries said.
Supporters of Iran’s clerical establishment and of the July 2015 nuclear
deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Agreement (JCPOA) between
six world powers and Iran, justify Tehran’s ballistic missile program on
the grounds that it is defensive and aimed at deterrence.
While the world is transfixed by Pyongyang’s duel with the US,
another regime’s missile program also threatens global security and
stability.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
This argument has already been debunked, since Iran has used ballistic
missiles offensively outside its borders. In the latest incident, a
missile launch into Syria violated international law and the sovereignty
of the Syrian state.
Iran’s so-called moderates and hard-liners both support advancing
Tehran’s ballistic missile program. President Hassan Rouhani has said
Iran “will have a new ballistic missile test in the near future that
will be a thorn in the eyes of our enemies.”
Iran’s cheerleaders also try to persuade the world that in pursuing
ballistic missile capabilities, Tehran is not violating any legal
framework. This argument is misleading, unsophisticated and simplistic.
Iran is not only in clear breach of UN Security Council Resolution 2231,
which prohibits ballistic missile activity until eight years after
nuclear deal adoption day in October 2015, but is also violating the
spirit of the nuclear deal itself.
The Trump administration should lead a much more robust effort in
response to Iran’s aggressive ballistic missile proliferation. This
could include condemnation, as well as economic and political sanctions
on the Iranian government and non-US entities that deal with Tehran.
Since regional countries and EU nations are on the same page as
Washington with regard to Tehran’s aggressive ballistic missile
activities, the US should seek the assistance of the EU and regional
powers.
A coalition of regional nations, such as the Gulf Cooperation Council
(GCC), should also condemn, pressure, isolate or sanction Tehran
economically and politically if needed. This can be more efficiently
accomplished with a united front between the US and Arab nations.
Inaction from the Trump administration, the international community and
regional powers will be seen by Tehran as weakness and a continuation of
Barack Obama’s appeasement policies. Iran will be further emboldened,
and will ratchet up its unlawful activities.
An Iranian ICBM armed with a nuclear warhead would be one of the most
serious threats to the stability of the region and the world.
more than 30,000 women and men, of all ages, of all types, of all tastes,
united in a single goal; that of Iran’s liberation from the clutches of
fundamentalist tyranny. They perished in the massacre of 1988, when
the orders came to exterminate all political prisoners. The vast majority
of them were under thirty; most had been in jail for years, many since
they were only thirteen or fourteen years old. As they were being led
to execution dozens at a time, day after day, a short poem became
popular among prisoners:
Every dawn the storm comes
To mow the young red roses down
But this garden, where the water is blood,
Will for ever be full of red roses.
This book is dedicated to the countless red roses of the Iranian people’s
resistance against tyranny
Those who met their appointment with FREEDOM
80 percent of PMOI women detained in the Women's Ward 3 of Evin Prison
had been massacred by September 1988. They included Monireh Rajavi, who
had two small daughters and was executed only because she was the sister
of the Iranian Resistance's Leader Massoud Rajavi. There was also
Ashraf Ahmadi, a political prisoner from the Shah's time, with four
children. The victims also included a wide range of people from various
professions, including PMOI's female candidates for parliamentary
elections Fatemeh Zare'ii from Shiraz, and Zohreh Ainol-Yagheen from
Isfahan. Dr. Hamideh Sayyahi and Dr. Shourangiz Karimian, along with her
sister, and National Volleyball Team player Forouzan Abdi were among
those executed in the 1988 massacre.
Brave student in Tabriz Uni denounces Iran’s 1988massacre
By
callforjustice | July 15, 2017 | News Update | No CommentsOn 22 April
2017, a brave student in Tabriz University, north-west Iran, publicly
denounced human rights abuses by the authorities in Iran, highlighting
in particular the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. Addressing on
the stage Hassan Abbasi, a former senior Revolutionary Guards officer,
the Iranian student also condemned the IRGC’s role in the murder of the
people of Syria. Transcript:
By Christina Lamb, CHILDREN as young as 13 were hanged from cranes, six at a time, in a
barbaric two-month purge of Iran's prisons on the direct orders of
Ayatollah Khomeini, according to a new book by his former deputy.
More than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in the 1988 massacre -
a far larger number than previously suspected. Secret documents
smuggled out of Iran reveal that, because of the large numbers of necks
to be broken, prisoners were loaded onto forklift trucks in groups of
six and hanged from cranes in half-hourly intervals.
Gruesome details are contained in the memoirs of Grand Ayatollah
Hossein-Ali Montazeri, The Memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali
Montazeri, one of the founders of the Islamic regime. He was once
considered Khomeini's anointed successor, but was deposed for his
outspokenness, and is now under house arrest in the holy city of Qom.
Published privately last month after attempts by the regime to suppress
it, the revelations have prompted demands from Iranian exiles for those
involved to be tried for crimes against humanity. The most damning of
the letters and documents published in the book is Khomeini's fatwa
decree calling for all Mojahedin (as opponents of the Iranian regime are
known) to be killed. Read more
Lights of Liberty on the 30th Anniversary of 1988 Massacre
By callforjustice | July 31, 2017
In the summer of 1988, 30,000 Iranian political prisoners
supporters of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, were massacred. As the
30th-anniversary approaches, the families of the victims and the
citizens of Iran still await justice and an international tribune. Read more Iran and Massacre of 30,000 MEK and Other Political Prisoners By Jubin Katiraie
The US Senate voted almost unanimously last Thursday to impose new
sanctions on Iran. The legislation cracks down on Iran’s activities
including their missile development programs and human rights abuses.
This is the first time that Iran has been targeted for violation of
Human Rights.
“Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and
annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a list of each person the Secretary
determines, based on credible evidence, on or after the date of the
enactment of this Act (1) is responsible for extrajudicial killings,
torture, or other gross violations of internationally recognized human
rights committed against individuals in Iran who seek (A) to expose
illegal activity carried out by officials of the Government of Iran; or
(B) to obtain, exercise, defend, or promote internationally recognized
human rights and freedoms, such as the freedoms of religion, expression,
association, and assembly, and the rights to a fair trial and
democratic elections; or … “ Reads part of the bill
For the past 4 decades Iran has been one of the worst violators of Human
Rights in the world. Since the 1979 revolution Iranian regime has been
condemned 63 times by the UN bodies for violation of Human Rights.
Given the articles of the new bill about violation of human rights, and
based on the actions of Iranian authorities in the past 4 decades, all
the Iranian officials must be sanctioned. Read more Mehdi Khazali interview about Iran 1988 massacre
Mahdi Khazali is a publisher, physician, blogger and son of a leading
right-wing cleric and former Counsel of Guardians member, Ayatollah
Khazali. He is also an Islamic scholar and the director of the Hayyan
Cultural Institute in Tehran. He was at Rafsanjani and Khatami
The untold story of the 1988 Massacre in Iran
In the summer of 1988, the Iranian regime summarily and extra-judicially
executed tens of thousands of political prisoners held in jails across
Iran. The massacre was carried out on the basis of a fatwa by the
regime’s then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
How blood of innocents has become an endless nightmare for Iranian regime
By F. Mahmoudi Special to Al Arabiya EnglishThursday, 27 July 2017
In Iran, 1980s is known as a bloody decade as thousands of political opponents were executed in brutal mass murder.
In the summer of 1988, a massive slaughter took place in Iran’s prisons.
Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the successor of Khomeini, was
dismissed as a result of his objection to this massacre.
In September 2016, an audio tape from a meeting of the late Ayatollah
Montazeri with members of the committee of executioners (commonly known
by Iranians as death committee) was published by his son, which led to
his arrest and prosecution.
In the audio tape, Ayatollah Montazeri described this massacre as the
worst crime in the history of the Islamic Republic, and named Ibrahim
Raisi, Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, Hossein Ali Nayeri and other coordinators
as criminals. Read more
Lights of Liberty on the 30th Anniversary of 1988 Massacre
By Hassan Mahmoudi - July 27, 2017 In the summer of 1988,
30,000 Iranian political prisoners, supporters of the People’s
Mujahedin of Iran, were massacred. As the 30th-anniversary approaches,
the families of the victims and the citizens of Iran still await justice
and an international tribune.
Thousands of Iranian political prisoners were systematically executed
during a state-sponsored, five month-long killing spree in 1988. The
prisoners, some as young as 14 years old, were killed in groups—loaded
onto trucks and hanged from cranes. Over the past three decades, the
regime has blocked all attempts at investigating the extent of the
massacre. They have gone to great lengths to conceal the truth about
the murders, including damaging cemeteries with bulldozers and toppling
the headstones that mark the martyrs’ graves
There is neither a single government institution nor criminal justice
system to deter crime and enforce a penal code in Iran. The Supreme
Leader, Ali Khamenei, controls everything. He sets the tone and
direction of Iran’s domestic and foreign policies and has allowed many
former members of the “Death Commission” to remain in power. Figures
like Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi and cleric Ebrahim Raisi are heavily
involved in contemporary Iranian politics. The former is presently the
minister of justice under President Hassan Rouhani’s Administration and
the latter was the Supreme Leader’s in the 2017 presidential
election—both have defended the government’s actions starting on July
19, 1988. Read more
IRAN, 28 July 2017-- Mohammad Sadegh Kushki, an expert in political and
international issues from the Khamenei bands, emphasized that the
solution to the crisis of popular dissatisfaction and protests is the
use of criminal elements such as Assadollah Lajvardi (Chief of Evin
Prison known as the Evin executioner) in the 1980s and criminal judges
such as Mohammadi Gilani (a perpetrator of the 1988 massacre of 30,000
political prisoners) and Ahmad Jannati (Secretary of the Guardian
Council). Ofogh (Horizon) TV (a state-run TV station) – 24 July 2017:
Unveiling the secrets of Iran’s 1988 massacre
By Heshmat Alavi
Al Arabiya, 22 July 2017 - Ali Fallahian, Iran’s intelligence minister
during the tenure of Rafsanjani’s presidency back in the early 90s, is a
name most notoriously known for his role in a series of chain murders
across the country that saw the elimination of many dissidents.
Fallahian has recently been heard making shocking revelations in
reference to mass executions, especially targeting members and supporter
of the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran
(PMOI/MEK).
A German court raised charges against Fallahian for his direct
involvement in the September 1992 assassination of Iranian Kurdish
dissidents in Berlin. In 2007, Interpol placed Fallahian on its most
wanted list for his role in the 1994 bombing the AMIA in Buenos Aires
Jewish center that left 85 killed. Read more The nuclear deal and Iran’s 1988 massacre
The following is an article written by Karim Moradi, an Iranian human
rights activist and member of the Society of Iranian Political
Prisoners. His article was published in The Hill.
He speaks of his experienced while he was in Iran prison:
I am often asked by my American friends what I think about the Iran
deal. As someone who spent seven years of his life imprisoned in Iran,
it is difficult for me to give a simple answer. I have spent the past
few weeks reflecting not on the nuclear deal with Iran, but on the
summer of 1988, when Iran systematically massacred 30,000 political
prisoners in a matter of weeks.
I was born in 1958 in the beautiful city of Shiraz in southwestern Iran.
I was a student activist against the Shah’s dictatorship but after the
1979 uprising, I felt that my values stood in sharp contrast to the
clerics, who had usurped the popular revolution. I felt closer to the
People’s Mojahedin of Iran, (PMOI/MEK) an opposition organization that
espoused a democratic interpretation of Islam and stood for a secular
and democratic republic.
I was arrested by the clerical regime for selling opposition newspapers
in January 1982. I was 23 years old when after a sham trial I was
initially sentenced to 10 years in prison. I was then tortured and later
sentenced to death by a judge named Ramazani.
While in prison, I was whipped with cables on my feet and back, and was
routinely beaten. My cellmates, all political prisoners, were hung from
the ceiling, sometimes for hours, or had parts of their bodies gradually
burnt. I also heard about women, including two sisters of a family
friend, who were raped before they were executed.
Although our days were filled with isolation and torture, we would often
find time at night to whisper poems and revolutionary songs together,
both to stimulate our spirits and for momentary escape. Through these
small acts of defiance, we were able to strengthen our resistance and
maintain high spirits in what was living hell.
more than 30,000 women and men, of all ages, of all types, of all tastes,
united in a single goal; that of Iran’s liberation from the clutches of
fundamentalist tyranny. They perished in the massacre of 1988, when
the orders came to exterminate all political prisoners. The vast majority
of them were under thirty; most had been in jail for years, many since
they were only thirteen or fourteen years old. As they were being led
to execution dozens at a time, day after day, a short poem became
popular among prisoners:
Every dawn the storm comes
To mow the young red roses down
But this garden, where the water is blood,
Will for ever be full of red roses.
This book is dedicated to the countless red roses of the Iranian people’s
resistance against tyranny
Those who met their appointment with FREEDOM
80 percent of PMOI women detained in the Women's Ward 3 of Evin Prison
had been massacred by September 1988. They included Monireh Rajavi, who
had two small daughters and was executed only because she was the sister
of the Iranian Resistance's Leader Massoud Rajavi. There was also
Ashraf Ahmadi, a political prisoner from the Shah's time, with four
children. The victims also included a wide range of people from various
professions, including PMOI's female candidates for parliamentary
elections Fatemeh Zare'ii from Shiraz, and Zohreh Ainol-Yagheen from
Isfahan. Dr. Hamideh Sayyahi and Dr. Shourangiz Karimian, along with her
sister, and National Volleyball Team player Forouzan Abdi were among
those executed in the 1988 massacre.
Brave student in Tabriz Uni denounces Iran’s 1988massacre
By
callforjustice | July 15, 2017 | News Update | No CommentsOn 22 April
2017, a brave student in Tabriz University, north-west Iran, publicly
denounced human rights abuses by the authorities in Iran, highlighting
in particular the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. Addressing on
the stage Hassan Abbasi, a former senior Revolutionary Guards officer,
the Iranian student also condemned the IRGC’s role in the murder of the
people of Syria. Transcript:
By Christina Lamb, CHILDREN as young as 13 were hanged from cranes, six at a time, in a
barbaric two-month purge of Iran's prisons on the direct orders of
Ayatollah Khomeini, according to a new book by his former deputy.
More than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in the 1988 massacre -
a far larger number than previously suspected. Secret documents
smuggled out of Iran reveal that, because of the large numbers of necks
to be broken, prisoners were loaded onto forklift trucks in groups of
six and hanged from cranes in half-hourly intervals.
Gruesome details are contained in the memoirs of Grand Ayatollah
Hossein-Ali Montazeri, The Memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali
Montazeri, one of the founders of the Islamic regime. He was once
considered Khomeini's anointed successor, but was deposed for his
outspokenness, and is now under house arrest in the holy city of Qom.
Published privately last month after attempts by the regime to suppress
it, the revelations have prompted demands from Iranian exiles for those
involved to be tried for crimes against humanity. The most damning of
the letters and documents published in the book is Khomeini's fatwa
decree calling for all Mojahedin (as opponents of the Iranian regime are
known) to be killed. Read more
Lights of Liberty on the 30th Anniversary of 1988 Massacre
By callforjustice | July 31, 2017
In the summer of 1988, 30,000 Iranian political prisoners
supporters of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, were massacred. As the
30th-anniversary approaches, the families of the victims and the
citizens of Iran still await justice and an international tribune. Read more Iran and Massacre of 30,000 MEK and Other Political Prisoners By Jubin Katiraie
The US Senate voted almost unanimously last Thursday to impose new
sanctions on Iran. The legislation cracks down on Iran’s activities
including their missile development programs and human rights abuses.
This is the first time that Iran has been targeted for violation of
Human Rights.
“Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and
annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a list of each person the Secretary
determines, based on credible evidence, on or after the date of the
enactment of this Act (1) is responsible for extrajudicial killings,
torture, or other gross violations of internationally recognized human
rights committed against individuals in Iran who seek (A) to expose
illegal activity carried out by officials of the Government of Iran; or
(B) to obtain, exercise, defend, or promote internationally recognized
human rights and freedoms, such as the freedoms of religion, expression,
association, and assembly, and the rights to a fair trial and
democratic elections; or … “ Reads part of the bill
For the past 4 decades Iran has been one of the worst violators of Human
Rights in the world. Since the 1979 revolution Iranian regime has been
condemned 63 times by the UN bodies for violation of Human Rights.
Given the articles of the new bill about violation of human rights, and
based on the actions of Iranian authorities in the past 4 decades, all
the Iranian officials must be sanctioned. Read more Mehdi Khazali interview about Iran 1988 massacre
Mahdi Khazali is a publisher, physician, blogger and son of a leading
right-wing cleric and former Counsel of Guardians member, Ayatollah
Khazali. He is also an Islamic scholar and the director of the Hayyan
Cultural Institute in Tehran. He was at Rafsanjani and Khatami
The untold story of the 1988 Massacre in Iran
In the summer of 1988, the Iranian regime summarily and extra-judicially
executed tens of thousands of political prisoners held in jails across
Iran. The massacre was carried out on the basis of a fatwa by the
regime’s then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
How blood of innocents has become an endless nightmare for Iranian regime
By F. Mahmoudi Special to Al Arabiya EnglishThursday, 27 July 2017
In Iran, 1980s is known as a bloody decade as thousands of political opponents were executed in brutal mass murder.
In the summer of 1988, a massive slaughter took place in Iran’s prisons.
Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, the successor of Khomeini, was
dismissed as a result of his objection to this massacre.
In September 2016, an audio tape from a meeting of the late Ayatollah
Montazeri with members of the committee of executioners (commonly known
by Iranians as death committee) was published by his son, which led to
his arrest and prosecution.
In the audio tape, Ayatollah Montazeri described this massacre as the
worst crime in the history of the Islamic Republic, and named Ibrahim
Raisi, Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, Hossein Ali Nayeri and other coordinators
as criminals. Read more
Lights of Liberty on the 30th Anniversary of 1988 Massacre
By Hassan Mahmoudi - July 27, 2017 In the summer of 1988,
30,000 Iranian political prisoners, supporters of the People’s
Mujahedin of Iran, were massacred. As the 30th-anniversary approaches,
the families of the victims and the citizens of Iran still await justice
and an international tribune.
Thousands of Iranian political prisoners were systematically executed
during a state-sponsored, five month-long killing spree in 1988. The
prisoners, some as young as 14 years old, were killed in groups—loaded
onto trucks and hanged from cranes. Over the past three decades, the
regime has blocked all attempts at investigating the extent of the
massacre. They have gone to great lengths to conceal the truth about
the murders, including damaging cemeteries with bulldozers and toppling
the headstones that mark the martyrs’ graves
There is neither a single government institution nor criminal justice
system to deter crime and enforce a penal code in Iran. The Supreme
Leader, Ali Khamenei, controls everything. He sets the tone and
direction of Iran’s domestic and foreign policies and has allowed many
former members of the “Death Commission” to remain in power. Figures
like Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi and cleric Ebrahim Raisi are heavily
involved in contemporary Iranian politics. The former is presently the
minister of justice under President Hassan Rouhani’s Administration and
the latter was the Supreme Leader’s in the 2017 presidential
election—both have defended the government’s actions starting on July
19, 1988. Read more
IRAN, 28 July 2017-- Mohammad Sadegh Kushki, an expert in political and
international issues from the Khamenei bands, emphasized that the
solution to the crisis of popular dissatisfaction and protests is the
use of criminal elements such as Assadollah Lajvardi (Chief of Evin
Prison known as the Evin executioner) in the 1980s and criminal judges
such as Mohammadi Gilani (a perpetrator of the 1988 massacre of 30,000
political prisoners) and Ahmad Jannati (Secretary of the Guardian
Council). Ofogh (Horizon) TV (a state-run TV station) – 24 July 2017:
Unveiling the secrets of Iran’s 1988 massacre
By Heshmat Alavi
Al Arabiya, 22 July 2017 - Ali Fallahian, Iran’s intelligence minister
during the tenure of Rafsanjani’s presidency back in the early 90s, is a
name most notoriously known for his role in a series of chain murders
across the country that saw the elimination of many dissidents.
Fallahian has recently been heard making shocking revelations in
reference to mass executions, especially targeting members and supporter
of the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran
(PMOI/MEK).
A German court raised charges against Fallahian for his direct
involvement in the September 1992 assassination of Iranian Kurdish
dissidents in Berlin. In 2007, Interpol placed Fallahian on its most
wanted list for his role in the 1994 bombing the AMIA in Buenos Aires
Jewish center that left 85 killed. Read more The nuclear deal and Iran’s 1988 massacre
The following is an article written by Karim Moradi, an Iranian human
rights activist and member of the Society of Iranian Political
Prisoners. His article was published in The Hill.
He speaks of his experienced while he was in Iran prison:
I am often asked by my American friends what I think about the Iran
deal. As someone who spent seven years of his life imprisoned in Iran,
it is difficult for me to give a simple answer. I have spent the past
few weeks reflecting not on the nuclear deal with Iran, but on the
summer of 1988, when Iran systematically massacred 30,000 political
prisoners in a matter of weeks.
I was born in 1958 in the beautiful city of Shiraz in southwestern Iran.
I was a student activist against the Shah’s dictatorship but after the
1979 uprising, I felt that my values stood in sharp contrast to the
clerics, who had usurped the popular revolution. I felt closer to the
People’s Mojahedin of Iran, (PMOI/MEK) an opposition organization that
espoused a democratic interpretation of Islam and stood for a secular
and democratic republic.
I was arrested by the clerical regime for selling opposition newspapers
in January 1982. I was 23 years old when after a sham trial I was
initially sentenced to 10 years in prison. I was then tortured and later
sentenced to death by a judge named Ramazani.
While in prison, I was whipped with cables on my feet and back, and was
routinely beaten. My cellmates, all political prisoners, were hung from
the ceiling, sometimes for hours, or had parts of their bodies gradually
burnt. I also heard about women, including two sisters of a family
friend, who were raped before they were executed.
Although our days were filled with isolation and torture, we would often
find time at night to whisper poems and revolutionary songs together,
both to stimulate our spirits and for momentary escape. Through these
small acts of defiance, we were able to strengthen our resistance and
maintain high spirits in what was living hell.
مقامات ایران هفته پیش هیأتی متشکل از دیپلمات های خارجی را به بازدیدی از زندان اوین در تهران دعوت کردند.
بنا به مقاله ای در نشریه ایندیپندنت نوشته رها بحرینی، محقق سازمان عفو بین الملل، ایران هفته گذشته از یک هیأت دیپلماتیک خارجی متشکل از ۴۵ نماینده از اروپا، آسیا، آفریقا، و آمریکای جنوبی دعوت به دیدار از بخش هایی از زندان اوین در تهران کرد.
رها بحرینی در مقاله ای در ایندیپندنت با عنوان «ایران لوکسترین بخش یکی از مخوفترین زندانهای کشور را برای هیأتی خارجی به نمایش گذاشت» می نویسد این دیدار برای کارشناسان زندان و یا فعالان حقوق بشری صورت نگرفته بود.
بنا به نشریه ایندیپندنت، هیأت خارجی تنها از بخش هایی از اوین دیدار کردند که در بهترین شرایط ممکن بسر می برد و میزگردی که برای بحث و گفتوگو برگزار شده بود نیز در باغ سرسبز این زندان صورت گرفت که به نقل از خانم بحرینی، چیزی بیش از یک مانور روابط عمومی رژیم نبوده است.
اما تنها چند روز پس از ملاقات هیأت خارجی از زندان اوین، رسانه های دولتی ایران مطالب متعددی درباره سیستم بسیار پیشرفته زندان اوین منتشر کردند که گویا تحسین مقاماتی از هند، اندونزی، و کره جنوبی را به دنبال داشته است.
اما بنا به ایندیپندنت، آنچه در این روایت ها به آن اشاره نشده این است که زندان اوین محوطه ای بسیار بزرگ دارد و از ساختمان های متعددی تشکیل که شرایط آنها با یکدیگر فرق دارد.
هیأت خارجی تنها از بخش هایی از ساختمان های شماره ۴ و ۷ اولین دیدار کردند که محل نگهداری زندانیان دارای تمکن مالی و متهم به جرایم مالی است، بخش هایی با هزینه خود این زندانیان توسعه و بهبود یافته تا شرایط بهتری برای آنها فراهم سازد. آرایشگاه، ورزشگاه، کتابخانه، و رستوران هایی که این هیأت از آنها دیدار کرده اند تنها در دسترس زندانیان ساختمان شماره ۷ اوین است.
اما بنا به تحقیقاتی که ایندیپندنت به آن اشاره دارد، شرایط بیشتر بخش های اوین غیرانسانی و آلوده است.[1] ازدیاد جمعیت، محدودیت دسترسی به آب گرم، عدم تهویه مناسب هوا، و رخنه سوسک و موش در زندان از جمله معضلات بیشتر بخش های زندان اوین محسوب می شود که از دید هیأت خارجی پنهان مانده است.
از سوی دیگر، در دیدار هفته گذشته، ورود هیأت دیپلماتیک خارجی به بخش هایی از زندان اوین که تحت کنترل وزارت اطلاعات و سپاه پاسداران قرار دارد منع شده بود، بخش هایی که در آن زندانی ها زمان طولانی در سلول انفرادی بسر برده و تحت شکنجه قرار می گیرند.
پس از دیدار هفته گذشته هیأت خارجی از زندان اوین، کاظم غریب آبادی، معاون امور بین الملل ستاد حقوق بشر قوه قضاییه ایران، اعلام کرد شرایط زندان اوین با بالاترین استانداردهای زندانها در کشور ساخته شده و زندانیان به «تسهیلات پزشکی دسترسی کامل» دارند، ادعایی که با گزارش سال گذشته مبنی بر اینکه زندانیان سیاسی اوین به خدمات پزشکی دسترسی ندارند مغایرت دارد.
به گفته رها بحرینی، دیدار هیأت خارجی از زندان اوین تنها یک «نمایش سیاسی» به منظور تبلیغات برای رژیم بوده که در آن از دیپلمات های خارجی استفاده شده است.
به نوشته خانم بحرینی، این مقام های خارجی باید به شکنجه و بدرفتاری با زندانیان در زندان های ایران، و همچنین حبس توجیهناپذیر فعالان حقوق بشری و منتقدان صلحطلب نظام اعتراض کرده و از ایران بخواهند تا درهای اوین و دیگر زندان های کشور را برای تحقیقات بیشتر از سوی گروه های بین المللی ناظر باز کنند.
مو بروکس عضو کمیته روابط خارجی مجلس نمایندگان آمریکا معتقد است تهدید رژیم ایران برای آمریکا بزرگتر از خط کره شمالی است.
تنشها بین کره شمالی و آمریکا در حال افزایش است. رئیس حکومت کره شمالی غیر قابل پیش بینی و غیرقابل کنترل است همین باعث نگرانی است.
مو بروکس عضو کمیته روابط خارجی مجلس نمایندگان آمریکا میگوید رهبری کره شمالی یک فریبکار است. او مانند دیوانه ها عمل می کند. او اضافه کرد «رهبران کره شمالی میدانند که هیچ سیستم دفاع موشکی ندارند، آنها میدانند ما میتوانیم این کشور را کاملا نابود کنیم...». از طرف دیگر بروکس اظهار داشت که رژیم ایران تهدید بیشتری است... مو بروکس افزود: «خطر بزرگتر کره شمالی نیست بلکه رژیم ایران است. در ایران شما افرادی را دارید که انگیزه مذهبی دارند و در مواردی پیشنهاد کرده اند اقدام به عمل انتحاری کنند».
عاصمه جهانگیر، گزارشگر ویژة سازمان ملل برای وضعیت حقوق بشر در ایران، اعدام وحشیانه علیرضا تاجیکی توسط دژخیمان خامنه ای را محکوم کرد.
در بیانیه گزارشگر ویژه ملل متحد آمده است: علیرضا تاجیکی در ۱۰ اوت، بهرغم مداخلات مکرر کارشناسان حقوق بشر ملل متحد اعدام شد؛ آنها گفتند، مجازات مرگ هرگز نباید علیه یک کودک اعمال شود و افزودند که طبق گزارشها، تاجیکی شکنجه شده و از یک محاکمة عادلانه برخوردار نبوده است. گزارشگر ویژه میافزاید: «دادگاه رژیم بر استفاده از «اعترافات» اجباری تکیه کرده که طبق گزارشها با اعمال شکنجه، از جمله کتکزدن، شلاقزدن و آویزانکردن از دست و پا، بهدست آمده....
This week marks the beginning of Hassan Rouhani’s second presidential term, which is vital for the existence of the ruling theocracy in Iran.
In his inauguration speech, Rouhani described his plans to have high level relationships with world. However after the speech, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei called for standing against America.
At first glance, there seems to be a significant conflict of priority, but in reality this is just a political deception directed by these two clerics.
On the face of it, president Rouhani claims that he is pursuing a detente policy with US and Arab countries. However, in reality, his government allocates billions of dollars, which was gained from the nuclear deal, towards the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its ballistic missile program development.
Rohani’s actions reminds one of the English proverb, “Do as I say, not as I Do”.
The experience over the span of almost four decades has shown clearly that there are no moderates within the clerical regime. The policies of the so-called reformists have consistently been based on abusing the international trust.
Politically, considering the growing debate about a US policy of regime change, it is safe to say that all regime factions are alarmed over the new, effective American sanctions on Tehran. Thus, Rouhani, as president, immediately met senior IRGC commanders to discuss the crisis and hammer out solutions.
The IRGC dominates Iran’s economy and plays a key role in Tehran’s destabilizing activities, support for terrorism and domestic crackdown. That is why any action aimed weakening it will leave the regime in a perilous condition and facing an existential threat.
Consequently, when President Trump signed the “mother of all sanctions” into law, which effectively opened new doors to end the clerical rule in Iran, Tehran’s deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, announced that Rouhani’s government will increase its backing of the IRGC and its Quds Force.
In international relations, a president or a head of government is known as the official representative of a country while voices of parallel institutions are not taken as the official policy.
In the case of Iran, contrary to existing facts, public opinion sees a ‘smile diplomacy’ from president Rouhani, which is appropriate to divert attention from the quagmire his regime is stuck in.
Unfortunately, some EU governments still insist on pursuing a clearly outdated policy on Iran in hopes of lucrative economic relations. They choose to close their eyes on realities and ignore facts on the ground for the purpose of appeasing the clerical regime.
Overall, Iran’s smile policy has specific purposes, buying time and bypassing sanctions through deception.
In this regard, the Iranian opposition coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) welcomed the legislation imposing new sanctions against the mullahs and called for this law to be implemented immediately, meticulously and without exception.
The NCRI went on in its statement to urge the EU and its member states to “join these sanctions.”
According to the Iranian people’s opinion in social media, a majority of them welcome the new US policy that targets the entirety of IRGC and its ability to wage war on the Iranian society and the region.
Consequently, the US should ask its allies in the EU to join these efforts and impose similar sanctions.
EU governments should notice that the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Khamenei, who has the ultimate say on all foreign and domestic issues, and the president, Hasan Rouhani, both agree on the IRGC’s strategic role for the theocracy’s survival and the need to boost and strengthen its abilities both at home and abroad.
عدت لجنة الشؤون الخارجية بالمجلس الوطني للمقاومة الإيرانية، زيارة الممثل الأعلى لسياسة الأمن والشؤون الخارجية في الاتحاد الأوروبي فيديريكا موغيريني، ومسؤولين أوروبيين الي طهران، لحفل تنصيب رئيس غير شرعي، في ظل إعدام نظام الملالي لأكثر من 101 سجين بإيران خلال يوليو، استهتار بالقيم الكونية لحقوق الإنسان التي يعتبر الاتحاد الأوروبي نفسه حافظا ومدافعا عنها.
واعتبرت المراهنة على نظام الملالي، الذي تدل كل العلامات على دخوله المرحلة النهائية من عمره، محكوم عليها بالفشل ولا تنتج سوى الخسارة، وتُصوّر أوروبا في أذهان الشعب الإيراني بأنها تمد النظام بطوق النجاة له.
وذكرت لجنة الشؤون الخارجية، أن الواقع يُثبت أن الملا روحاني الذي يغطي وجهه بنقاب الاعتدال، لا مهمة له سوى حفظ نظام ولاية الفقيه وتأجيل موعد إسقاطه.
من جهته، عبر الشعب الإيراني بشعارهم (لا للجلاد ولا للمحتال، صوتي إسقاط النظام)، عن كراهيتهم حيال المسرحية الانتخابية الأخيرة وما يسمى بـ(المرشحين) الذين كانوا من أزلام الولي الفقيه.
وسجلت في الولاية الأولى لرئاسة روحاني أكثر من 3000 عملية إعدام، والتي وصفها روحاني بأنها (قانون إلهي أو قانون أقره البرلمان)، وهو من طالب خلال العام 1980 في برلمان النظام جهارا بإعدام المعارضين في صلاة الجمعة، ويُعتبر من المسؤولين الكبار في القمع وصناعة القنبلة النووية وتأجيج الحروب والقتل بالمنطقة.
ورأت المقاومة، أن الرهان على الوسطية في نظام ولاية الفقيه مع 120 ألف إعدام سياسي، ما هو إلا تعزيز لأشرس أجنحة النظام تعاملا مع الشعب الإيراني والسلام والأمن بالمنطقة، وأنه لا يمكن تصور أي تغيير في إيران بدون وضع حد لأعمال القمع والإعدام والتعذيب، وتدخلات النظام الإجرامية في سوريا والعراق واليمن ووقف مشاريعه النووية والصاروخية.
وطالبت بأن تكون العلاقات مع نظام طهران على أساس وقف الإعدامات وتحسين واقع حقوق الإنسان بالبلاد باعتباره مطلب الشعب الإيراني ويُعد أمراً ضرورياً للسلام والأمن في المنطقة والعالم.
London, 2 Aug - Mere hours before the Iranian Resistance’s annual Free Iran gathering began in Paris, the Iranian Regime’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, visited France in order to ban the gathering.
He failed. Over 100,000 people turned up to support the Iranian people’s call for freedom.
Three weeks later, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sent his close relative and advisor, Kamal Kharrazi, who was involved in a failed 2003 plot to discredit the resistance group the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK/PMOI), to denounce the MEK/PMOI as "a terrorist group that murdered thousands of ordinary citizens in Iran".
This is, of course, a complete lie, but when your daily activities include running a terrorist training camp, murdering political prisoners, and illegally continuing work on your nuclear programme, what’s a little lying?
These are clear attempts to discredit the MEK/PMOI because the Regime doesn’t like that the MEK/PMOI is providing evidence about the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988. However, while the MEK/PMOI is well respected in France and around the world, the Regime should be grateful not to be on trial for crimes against humanity yet.
The Regime is angry because the PMOI/MEK and other resistance groups have called for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to blacklist for their clear links to terrorism, criticised the treatment of political prisoners along with Amnesty International and the UN, and called for the Regime to stop interfering in the affairs of other states in the Middle East.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has released a statement advising the French Government and the international community to see these fabricated claims are merely the actions of a despotic regime that is losing power.
The NCRI wrote: “According to reports obtained from inside the regime, the Supreme National Security Council of the mullahs discussed, in the presence of the Foreign and Intelligence Ministers (MOIS), new schemes to fabricate new files against PMOI and handing them over to the French judiciary.”
The NCRI detailed 12 instances in which the Regime has tried to pull off this same type of attack in the past.
The statement read: “The Iranian Resistance warns against new machinations and new conspiracies of the mullahs' crisis-ridden regime against the Iranian people and the Resistance, and calls on the French government and the French judiciary to be vigilant in staying firm in the face of these illegal acts and not to allow French judiciary to be once again instrumentalised by the religious fascism ruling Iran.”
The Iranian Regime is terrified of its own people and their organised, democratic, resistance and for good reason. Tides are turning on Iran and the appeasement policy is waning; soon the people will take control.
