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The truth about the Iranian regime’s new president

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  By Sadegh Pashm-Foroush The day after the announcement of the results of Iran’s sham presidential election, Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei summoned the remaining members of the government of former regime president Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19. In his remarks to them—indirectly addressing new regime president Massoud Pezeshkian—he warned him and reminded him of the “model” of the president in the regime. The supreme leader repeatedly mentioned Raisi and said, “He is truly a model; we must all learn from him.” He then reiterated the concept of “heartfelt belief and practical commitment” to the regime, which Pezeshkian, like all the election candidates, had committed to. Khamenei stated, “Dear Raisi demonstrated as a model that one can possess these mental, heartfelt, and practical qualities as the president of a country and follow them in practice.” Of course, before the sham election, Pezeshkian repeatedly stated that he would continue Raisi...
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The mullahs’ regime’s failure to annihilate the Iranian Resistance through genocide and massacre

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  By Matin Karim A few weeks before the Free Iran 2024 Summit, Mr. Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, presented a  new report  describing the execution of political prisoners in the 1980s and the 1988 massacre as crimes against humanity and genocide. On July 1, the  third day of the Free Iran 2024 World Summit , titled “Iran: “Crimes Against Humanity and Accountability for Perpetrators,” many participants endorsed Mr. Javaid Rehman’s report and emphasized the need to pursue and punish the perpetrators of this “genocide.” Ambassador Joachim Rueker, President of the UN Human Rights Council until 2015, said, ” Professor Javaid Rehman published or talked about a new landmark report in which he, according to reports, concluded that the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners in Iran amounted to crimes against humanity, and it is reported that he also mentioned genocide. I think this report needs to be out there for the public to se...
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Iran's Morality Police in New Crackdown on Women

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  By Struan Stevenson Having learned no lessons from the nationwide uprising that exploded last September following the brutal killing in custody of the young Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini, the Iranian regime’s misogynist morality police are on the move again. Last week, the Tehran Criminal Court sentenced a woman to two months in prison for hijab violations. The judge, Ali Omidi, accused her of “anti-Iranian behavior.” In a more sinister outburst, he also ordered that she should be subjected to compulsory health checks, as her failure to wear the hijab was a clear display of “disease” symptoms that “must be treated.” Such claims are frighteningly reminiscent of judgements in the former Soviet Union, where people who were considered anti-communist were deemed to be insane and were sent for electric shock treatment in psychiatric hospitals.The morality police tracked her down using images from a ‘smart’ CCTV camera. Similar cameras have been installed in public places in towns and cities...
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independent: House forms new bipartisan caucus to support Iranian women’s protests

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  Capitol Hill is coalescing around a new bipartisan consensus towards Iran, as protests against the government in Tehran continue and a resumption of the 2015 nuclear accord seems further away than ever before. On Thursday, lawmakers from both parties led by Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee and Nancy Mace, a Democrat, and Republican, respectively, formed the Congressional Iranian Women Caucus, a group focused on the advancement of human rights in the conservative Muslim country at a time when women across Iran are fighting for greater freedoms from their government. The caucus leaders led the announcement of its formation on Thursday with a new bipartisan resolution, already cosponsored by more than a dozen Republicans and Democrats, that condemns a recent gas attack against schoolgirls in Iran. The resolution also calls on the State Department and United Nations to investigate the matter. “So many Iranian women are showing their bravery and resiliency in the face of challenges in...
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Int’l Community Must Not Embrace Raisi and a Regime Rejected by Iran’s People

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 Written by Mansoureh Galestan The Iranian people boycotted the regime’s sham presidential election. Nevertheless, the regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, pulled  Ebrahim Raisi  out of the ballot box despite the massive boycott of the Iranian people. Ebrahim Raisi’s designation as the next president was met with public protests which condemned him as the “ henchman of 1988 ” and also highlighted his more recent contribution to the regime’s record of human rights abuses when he served as head of the judiciary from March 2019 until after his presidential “selection.” Chief among those recent abuses was the crackdown on a nationwide uprising that broke out in  November 2019  and revived anti-regime slogans like “death to the dictator” which had defined a prior uprising in January 2018. Panicked by the persistent signs of popular support for regime change, Iranian authorities opened fire on crowds of protesters at the outset of the latter uprising. According to t...
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Iran: Whether International or Unilateral, Ebrahim Raisi Must Face Prosecution for Genocide

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 Written by Mahmoud Hakamia When Ebrahim Raisi was  inaugurated  as the next president on August 5, it was the culmination of more than 30 years of impunity for both him and the regime as a whole. In 1988, while serving as Tehran’s deputy prosecutor, Raisi became one of four figures in charge of a massacre of political prisoners that went on for three months and claimed at least 30,000 lives. Various legal scholars have called this massacre one of the late 20th century’s worst crimes against humanity, with many say that it fits the criteria to be prosecuted as an instance of genocide. Yet no one has ever faced accountability for the killings, and this has emboldened the regime to reward the perpetrators with ever more powerful and influential positions. With Raisi’s appointment to the presidency, that process has very nearly reached its apex. His June 18 “election” was orchestrated by the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who tasked the Guardian Council to exercise it...
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Iran: On Anniversary of Navid Afkari’s Execution, His Murderer Would Be Embraced by UN?

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 Written by Mahmoud Hakamian September 12 marks the first anniversary of the execution of Iran’s wrestling champion  Navid Afkari . Yet, on September 20, the world community would allow a man involved in his execution,  Ebrahim Raisi , to address the United Nations, General Assembly. Navid Afkari was arrested during the major Iran  protests in 2018  in Kazeroun along with his two brothers. Navid was falsely accused of killing a security guard based on a confession extracted under the month of torture. Navid had denied having killed the security guard and appealed to the Judiciary. Yet, Ebrahim Raisi, then-Judiciary Chief, declined the appeal. Navid was executed without receiving the due processes and despite international outcries against his execution. Now a year after Navid’s execution, all evidence suggests that his two brothers would have a harsh time. According to his lawyer, the regime’s Supreme court rejected a retrial requested by political prisoner Vahi...
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Iran: Ebrahim Raisi Is the Greatest Criminal in an Administration Full of Them

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 Written by Mohammad Sadat Khansari The Iranian regime’s new president,  Ebrahim Raisi , has now formally held office for over a month. His administration has fully taken shape with the appointment of notorious criminals to various cabinet positions. Among them are operatives from the Revolutionary Guards ( IRGC ), including some who are subject to Interpol arrest warrants stemming from their involvement in terrorist attacks on foreign soil in the  1990s . Many have also had sanctions imposed on them by both the United States and the European Union, over a variety of malign activities including terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and human rights violations against the Iranian people. Mrs.  Maryam Rajavi , the President-elect of the  National Council of Resistance  of Iran, described Raisi’s cabinet as “the embodiment of four decades of mullahs’ religious dictatorship and terrorism, whose primary mission is to confront the people’s uprising, and to plunder th...
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