Saturday, June 19, 2021

 Mass-Murderer Becomes President of Iran

The new president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, is suspected by many human rights organizations, Iranian exiles, the United States, and the European Union for committing mass-murder, enforced disappearance, torture, and other crimes against humanity.

The international human rights group, Amnesty International, has documented that Raisi, as the previous head of the government judicial body, was responsible for the executions and disappearance of thousands of protestors and people suspected of being opposed to Iran's dictator regime. 

Raisi's crimes go back to as far as 1988 when he was a member of commission responsible for executing thousands of people after the Iran-Iraq war. Iranian exiles who fled the country have exposed the regime, have said that during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988, the Tehran regime executed from 20,000 to 30,000 political prisoners and that the late dictator Khomeini issued a fatwa in 1988 to execute another 5,000 additional political prisoners of which Raisi was part of, according to Amnesty International.

The Amnesty statement can found here:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/iran-ebrahim-raisi-must-be-investigated-for-crimes-against-humanity/

The Amnesty report can be read here:

https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1343142021ENGLISH.PDF

The United States Treasury placed sanctions on Riasi in 2019 for killing and amputating child/juvenile prisoners, among other crimes.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm824

More detail can be found about Raisi's dark past:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/world/ebrahim-raisi-iran-president.html

With Iran now headed by another mass-murderer, the government can continue its crimes against the Iranian people, in additional to the crimes its militia proxies commit in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.