{"id":19081,"date":"2020-10-19T17:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=19081"},"modified":"2020-10-22T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:18:25","slug":"struan-stevenson-former-mep-calls-out-irans-human-rights-abuses-in-webinar-on-october-7-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/2020\/10\/struan-stevenson-former-mep-calls-out-irans-human-rights-abuses-in-webinar-on-october-7-2020\/19081\/","title":{"rendered":"Struan Stevenson, Former MEP Calls Out Iran&#8217;s Human Rights Abuses in Webinar on October 7, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<!--?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"--><html><body><p>Struan Stevenson, former MEP, president of the Parliament\u2019s Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14) and chairman of the EP Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup (2004-14), addressed <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2020\/10\/07\/online-conference-irans-ongoing-crimes-against-humanity-iranians-demand-for-eus-political-and-moral-obligations\/\" target=\"_blank\">a webinar <\/a>by European lawmakers on October 7, 2020, on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/human-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">human rights<\/a> situation in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Online Conference held under title, \u201cIran\u2019s Ongoing Crimes Against Humanity, EU\u2019s political and moral obligations\u201d. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/live-report-iran-regimes-ongoing-crimes-against-humanity-time-for-europe-to-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online event<\/a>\u00a0was on October 7, 2020. Dozens of members of the European Parliament attended and spoke at the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MEPs made their remarks in order to condemn the horrific human rights violations witnessed on a daily basis across Iran. In addition, MEPs called on the European Union to fulfill its moral and political obligations in the face of human rights violations in Iran. They called for a firm policy by the European Union against the mullah regime in Iran. Also, they pointed out, It is high time to stand alongside the Iranian people and support their justified aspirations for a free, democratic, and non-nuclear Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/maryam-rajavi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran(<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/national-council-of-resistance-of-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NCRI<\/a>), was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e13yWTkCi9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">keynote speaker<\/a> at this conference. Her message welcomed as a democratic solution to Iran\u2019s future.\u00a0Mrs. Rajavi\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryam-rajavi.com\/en\/viewpoints\/tomorrow-s-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ten-point plan<\/a>\u00a0has widespread support from the majority of MEPs for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Struan Stevenson, former MEP, president of the Parliament\u2019s Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14) and chairman of the EP Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup (2004-14)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Struan Stevenson, former MEP calls out Iran's human rights abuses in webinar on October 7, 2020\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kIMpHTP_vM4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sixty million Iranians are now living below the international poverty line. The grinding privation and penury has driven people to sell their livers, kidneys and even their corneas for cash. Sick organ traders are exploiting the poor to rake in huge profits. The Iranian currency \u2013 the rial \u2013 is in freefall. It has lost 49% of its value so far this year, as the US ramps up economic pressure with renewed sanctions. Iran, as one of the world\u2019s leading oil and gas producers, now has one of the world\u2019s most worthless currencies, with hyper-inflation topping 34.4% annually. Forty-one years of venal corruption, dim-witted incompetence and brutal oppression by the fascist Iranian government has brought this once prosperous and successful nation to its knees. Revolution is in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the theocratic regime announced a massive threefold hike in gasoline prices in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-protests-2019-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0November 2019<\/a>, millions of poor Iranians took to the streets in protest. The mullahs\u2019 predictable reaction was to order their Gestapo, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards corps (<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/look-irans-revolutionary-guards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IRGC<\/a>) and their internal security thugs \u2013 the Basij \u2013 to brutally suppress the nationwide uprising. Black-clad and masked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/the-iranian-regimes-irgc-quds-force-1980s-present\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IRGC\u00a0<\/a>snipers gunned down unarmed protesters from the rooftops of government buildings, shooting to kill. Basij goons beat young demonstrators with batons. 1,500 protesters were killed, thousands more were wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/the-iranian-regimes-irgc-quds-force-1980s-present\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IRGC<\/a>\u00a0dragged injured protesters from their hospital beds. They were taken to specially prepared torture centers where many perished. Over 12,000 were arrested and thrown into the regime\u2019s medieval prisons. Dozens have been sentenced to death for daring to challenge the authority of the fascist dictatorship. The execution of political prisoners has become almost a daily event, as the \u2018so-called\u2019 moderate President Hassan Rouhani, in his absurd speech to the UN General Assembly, proclaimed that \u201cPolitical freedom at home is very important to us, and as the most ancient democracy in the Middle East, we are proud of our democracy, and we will not compromise our freedoms with foreign intervention.\u201d His pathological lies have fooled no-one inside Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seething resentment and antipathy to the clerical regime has begun to boil over. Poverty-stricken Iranians are appalled that their government continues to pour money and military personnel into Syria in support of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s bloody civil war. They are horrified that the mullahs are funneling endless Iranian cash to the Houthi rebels in Yemen,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2019\/02\/03\/hezbollah-mek-pmoi-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hezbollah\u00a0<\/a>in Lebanon and the vicious Shi\u2019ia militias in Iraq. They are shocked to learn that vast resources are being channelled into the secret production of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, despite Rouhani\u2019s international denials. And they are dismayed that corruption and incompetence has seen the death toll from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/coronavirus-in-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0soar to over 116,000 nationwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Resistance units of the main, democratic opposition movement, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/peoples-mojahedin-pmoi-mek-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PMOI\/MEK<\/a>) have been formed in every town and city in the country. Sporadic outbursts of anger and protests against the regime have occurred daily, with defiant youths torching and vandalizing regime-affiliated sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The execution of the young wrestling champion\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/t\/navid-afkari\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Navid Afkari<\/a>, despite a global campaign to stop his judicial murder, has sparked renewed fury across the nation. His hanging outraged young Iranians who regarded Afkari as a sporting hero. Young resistance fighters have attacked courthouses, government buildings and IRGC and Basij bases in towns and cities throughout Iran. A centre for promoting fundamentalist Islam was torched in the city of Karaj. Banners, posters and images of Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and of the terrorist IRGC<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/the-iranian-regimes-irgc-quds-force-1980s-present\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Quds Force<\/a> General\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/27175-who-was-the-vicious-criminal-qassem-soleimani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Qassem Soleimani<\/a>, killed by a drone strike in January, have been repeatedly targeted and set on fire by protesters. Marchers in street protests routinely chant slogans such as \u201cThe Supreme Leader\u2019s end is near,\u201d and \u201cRise up to avenge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2020\/09\/12\/supporters-of-the-iranian-resistance-protest-against-the-brutal-execution-of-the-young-champion-navid-afkari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Navid<\/a>\u2019s execution.\u201d Anti-regime slogans and messages from the Iranian Resistance leader\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/massoud-rajavi-mek-pmoi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Massoud Rajavi<\/a>, and President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/i\/the-national-council-resistance-iran-ncri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NCRI<\/a>)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/c\/maryam-rajavi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maryam Rajavi<\/a>\u00a0regularly appear on walls and hoardings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As resistance to the mullahs continues to grow across Iran, there are increasing demands for the international community to end their policy of appeasement and show their support for the Iranian people. The ongoing torture and execution of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranfocus.com\/en\/component\/tags\/tag\/iran-political-prisoners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0political prisoners<\/a>\u00a0is a crime against humanity and continues because the United Nations has singularly failed to hold the mullahs\u2019 regime to account for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/t\/1988-massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners<\/a>, mostly supporters of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/about-iranian-opposition-pmoi-mek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PMOI\/MEK<\/a>, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/category\/1988-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1988<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although there is irrefutable evidence of this horrendous crime, which even senior figures in the regime openly admit and boast about, no-one has yet been indicted for this horror, one of the worst cases of genocide of the late twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The revolution is coming and when it does, the mullahs will face justice and those in the international community who have sought to appease them will be held answerable and shamed in the court of public opinion.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struan Stevenson, former MEP, president of the Parliament\u2019s Delegation for Relations with Iraq (2009-14) and chairman of the EP Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup (2004-14), addressed a webinar by European lawmakers on October 7, 2020, on the human rights situation in Iran. 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