{"id":27189,"date":"2021-10-11T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=27189"},"modified":"2021-10-11T14:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T12:51:01","slug":"the-time-is-now-to-hold-raisi-and-irans-regime-accountable-for-their-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/10\/the-time-is-now-to-hold-raisi-and-irans-regime-accountable-for-their-crimes\/27189\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time Is Now to Hold Raisi and Iran\u2019s Regime Accountable for Their Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Time Is Now to Hold Raisi and Iran\u2019s Regime Accountable for Their Crimes<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With the Iranian regime\u2019s president Ebrahim Raisi due to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland in a few weeks, calls have once again rang out to ban his participation and hold him accountable for his role in the 1988 massacre <\/a>of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Council of Resistance of Iran <\/a>(NCRI) said<\/a>, \u201cRaisi and his cabinet are \u201cthe embodiment of four decades of mullahs\u2019 religious dictatorship and terrorism,\u201d as the Iranian opposition leader, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi <\/a>has underlined.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allowing Raisi to use such a platform to address the world is nothing short of a disgrace for the memory of the thousands of prisoners who were executed in the summer of 1988, and a defiance in the face of those who have called for his prosecution ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with Raisi, a large number of the key ministers of his administration have just as appalling histories of crimes against humanity. Ahmad Vahidi, the Interior Minister, was involved in many of the regime\u2019s high-profile terrorist acts during his tenure in the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC<\/a>) Quds Force<\/a>, including the 1994 bombing in Argentina which killed 85 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, while affiliated with the Quds Force, was involved in domestic and international attacks on dissenters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCRI said<\/a>, \u201cRaisi<\/a>\u2019s choice to head the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, has virtually no scientific background that would qualify him for the position. But he does boast a history of support for the regime\u2019s proliferation activities dating back to the very founding of the Iranian nuclear program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raisi\u2019s involvement in the 1988 massacre<\/a> shows just how committed he was, and still is, for violently punishing those whose views go against those of the regime. Raisi served as a key figure on the \u2018death commission\u2019 in Tehran, a panel of judges who implemented a fatwa issued by then-supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini, which called for the deaths of supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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