{"id":6318,"date":"2016-07-06T16:13:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2018-08-11T21:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T19:27:04","slug":"iranian-regime-current-theocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/annual-gathering\/grand-gathering-2016\/2016\/07\/iranian-regime-current-theocracy\/6318\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes: Don&#8217;t Ignore Iranian regime&#8217; s current theocracy"},"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>Forbes: Don\u2019t Ignore Iranian reg<span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">im<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">e \u2018<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">s current theocracy<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">by Sir David Amess MP 6\u00a0July 2016<strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>In Iran, punishment for breaking the law is brutal. In May, 30 college students were sentenced to 99 lashes for having a co-ed party\u2014but consider them lucky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Over the past three years alone the Iranian regime has carried out over 2,400 executions, more than at any period since the revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6322\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecutionexs-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Ianian Regime\" width=\"389\" height=\"244\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecutionexs-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecutionexs-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ecutionexs.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">This startling rate of <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-transform: initial;\">\u00a0was enough to give the country the title of top executioner per capita in the world. And Iran\u2019s current and supposedly \u201creformist\u201d President Hassan Rouhani, described these executions publicly in 2014 as \u201cGod\u2019s commandments\u201d and \u201claws of the parliament that belongs to the people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Yet this rate of executions, which disproportionately targets opposition figures and ethnic minorities, and the barbaric punishments inflicted on its own citizens, which also includes forced amputations, has elicited little more than a shrug from the West. Especially in Washington D.C. there has only been lip service and no action. This type of \u201cconcern\u201d over \u201caction\u201d approach is good for short-term political gains, but the people of Iran, the Middle East and those across the globe will continue to pay a high price in real terms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">We can\u2019t ignore Iran<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Our history books are littered with examples. The decision to not get involved in Rwanda enabled genocide, the decision to not act decisively on North Korea left a growing nuclear threat and the decision to ignore Syria helped the Assad regime on one end and extremist groups on the other, including ISIS. We must not ignore Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The Iranian regime\u2019s ideology, combined with their continued push towards nuclear weapons [via public ballistic missile tests], their unabated sewing of turmoil and sponsorship of terrorism in the region, along with their domestic abuses make them a particularly worrying case vis-\u00e0-vis inaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2016\/07\/13\/iran-10\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">So what\u2019s next?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">We can certainly agree what Iran should not be and that is another Iraq war. A simply militaristic approach with a top-down aim of imposing democracy from the outside, combined with a long military occupation is a very bad idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Luckily, there are many avenues of involvement, all of which involve empowering the Iranian people themselves to embrace a democratic system<a href=\"http:\/\/ran%20Regime%E2%80%99s%20Confession%20to%20Economic%20Corruption,%20Denying%20the%20Roots%20of%20Uprising\"> we already know they support.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/2016\/07\/13\/iranian-opposition-rally-3\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">An alternative to Iranian regime\u2019 s current theocracy<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6327\" src=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Iranian-Regime-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"Iranian Regime\" width=\"408\" height=\"234\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';this.srcset='https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/themes\/hello-elementor\/images\/broken-image-placeholder.gif';\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Iranian-Regime-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Iranian-Regime.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) is the largest organized opposition to Iran\u2019s current theocracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"> They are led by Maryam Rajavi who espouses the idea of a free and democratic Iran that fosters separation of church and state, a moderate and progressive Islam, friendly ties with neighbors and the international community, and an embrace of international norms including abolition of capital punishment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The NCRI had advocated for real-world solutions in order for the international community to help the Iranian people achieve this goal, solutions that include heightened economic sanctions on the theocratic leaders and those responsible for human rights abuses in Iran, a recognition of Iran\u2019s human rights record and violent foreign policy, along with approaches vis-\u00e0-vis the nuclear program that are more well adapted to an Iran that has time and again deceived the international community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The People\u2019s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI or MeK), the principal Iranian resistance movement, is at the core of the NCRI. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Actually it was PMOI activists who exposed the Iranian regime\u2019s clandestine nuclear sites, alarming the world about the threat of Iran\u2019s secret program to acquire nuclear weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Let the Iranian voice for democracy be heard<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">On July 9 the Iranian\u00a0 will hold an important international event aimed at making Iranian voice for democracy heard. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The event, entitled \u201cFree Iran\u201d will be attended by hundreds of international dignitaries, including a stellar bipartisan list of American dignitaries, a unique phenomenon given the polarized election season in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\"> As the U.S. is moving towards choosing a new president, having the right policy on Iran will be a daunting challenge for whoever will be at the Oval Office this time next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 8.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; 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In May, 30 college students were sentenced to 99 lashes for having a co-ed party\u2014but consider them lucky. 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