{"id":17274,"date":"2020-09-02T18:33:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T16:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=17274"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:25:58","slug":"remarks-by-amb-ken-blackwell-call-for-justice-summit-july-19-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/annual-gathering\/grand-gathering-2020\/2020\/09\/remarks-by-amb-ken-blackwell-call-for-justice-summit-july-19-2020\/17274\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarks by Amb. Ken Blackwell\u2013Call for Justice Summit, July 19, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amb. Ken Blackwell, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations joined the Online Free Iran Global Summit<\/a>\u2014day 2. In his remarks, Amb. Blackwell said, \u201cWe must expose this regime and their reign of terror by doing what we can, with what we have, where we are.\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 1988, the Iranian religious fascism\u2019s founder and the first supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a\u00a0fatwa<\/em>\u00a0ordering the execution of imprisoned opponents, including those who had already been tried and were serving their prison terms. This was the beginning of what turned out to be the biggest massacre of political prisoners since World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the decree, some 30,000 political prisoners were extra-judicially executed within several months. Today, thanks to the initiative of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>), known as \u201cCall for Justice<\/a>\u201d many legal and international bodies have joined the families of victims in search of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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