{"id":24089,"date":"2021-07-23T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=24089"},"modified":"2021-07-22T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:01:55","slug":"the-world-must-investigate-1988-massacre-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/07\/the-world-must-investigate-1988-massacre-in-iran\/24089\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Must Investigate 1988 Massacre in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>, one of the henchmen of the 1988 massacre<\/a> of 30,000 political prisoners, set to become Iranian president next month, the international community should take this as a warning sign that immediate action is needed to investigate the massacre and other human rights abuses in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all, given Raisi<\/a>\u2019s personal history with the suppression of dissidents, it seems obvious that this will exacerbate when he takes the second-highest office in the land. He\u2019s been a loyal servant of the regime since 1979 and the massacre is far from his only crime. In fact, the most recent mass atrocity was the crackdown on the November 2019<\/a> uprising, when he oversaw regime forces shooting dead 1,500 people<\/a> in the streets and arresting 12,000 more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n