{"id":76617,"date":"2025-07-24T01:51:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=76617"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:52:36","slug":"international-experts-warn-of-looming-atrocity-in-iran-call-for-urgent-un-action-to-prevent-a-repeat-of-the-1988-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/human-rights\/2025\/07\/international-experts-warn-of-looming-atrocity-in-iran-call-for-urgent-un-action-to-prevent-a-repeat-of-the-1988-massacre\/76617\/","title":{"rendered":"International Experts Warn of Looming Atrocity in Iran, Call for Urgent UN Action to Prevent a Repeat of the 1988 Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Prominent — Prominent signatories of the joint statement\u2014including Nobel laureates, former UN officials, and global human rights leaders\u2014urge urgent UN action to prevent a repeat of Iran\u2019s 1988 massacre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
In a powerful and urgent appeal published<\/a> on July 23, 2025, by *Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran<\/em> (*JVMI<\/a>), a coalition of 301 leading international figures\u2014including Nobel laureates, former UN officials, human rights experts, and political leaders from over 60 countries\u2014has called on the United Nations to take immediate action to prevent what they describe as a dangerously real risk of another mass atrocity in Iran.<\/p>\n
This high-profile statement follows a deeply troubling editorial published on July 7 by *Fars News<\/em>, a media outlet affiliated with Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards (*IRGC<\/a>), which hailed the 1988 mass execution of over 30,000 political prisoners as a \u201csuccessful historical experience\u201d and openly encouraged a repeat of such killings targeting current political detainees. The statement\u2019s signatories warn that this rhetoric, combined with a spike in executions and systematic repression of dissent, suggests the early stages of another state-sponsored campaign of mass murder.<\/p>\n
*The JVMI statement serves as both a reminder of the silence that surrounded the 1988 massacre and a call to the global community to ensure that history does not repeat itself.<\/p>\n*
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Joint statement by international experts, Nobel laureates and political leaders urging immediate UN action to save the lives of Iranian political prisoners & to prevent a repeat of Iran's #1988Massacre<\/a><\/p>\n
\ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/t.co\/Xt8WCEq7Zw<\/a><\/p>\n
CC: @drmaisato<\/a> @volker_turk<\/a> #StopExecutionsInIran<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/1jfSFQpPiX<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 Justice for the Victims of 1988 Massacre in Iran (@jvmifoundation) July 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n