Austria, Vienna, 7 May 2021: Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran Organization(PMOI/MEK) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran(NCRI) demonstrated in Vienna Simultaneously (JCPOA) Joint Commission’s meeting.
They called for the nuclear case, human rights violations, and terrorism of the clerical regime to be referred to the UN Security Council.
The Iranian regime’s record in human rights violations, terrorism and nuclear activities
In November 2019, the regime cracked down on a nationwide uprising by killing 1,500 peaceful protesters. In February 2021, four of the regime’s operatives were found guilty of attempting to set off explosives at the NCRI’s annual gathering in France.
These and other incidents have, by all accounts, gone unmentioned at the Vienna talks. But it is naïve to think that matters of terrorism and human rights can be entirely separated from Iran’s nuclear provocations when all of these stem from the same belligerent ideology.
The JCPOA’s European signatories should increase pressure on the regime to curb its malign activities.
They should live up to their claims of being human rights defenders by clarifying that the nuclear agreement cannot lead Tehran to adopt a greater sense of impunity in other areas of its policy and behavior.
