UMAN RIGHTS IRAN REMEMBERS THE MURDEROUS SUMMER OF 1988

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IRAN REMEMBERS THE MURDEROUS SUMMER OF 1988IRAN REMEMBERS THE MURDEROUS SUMMER OF 1988

 
By :Shabnam Madadzadeh
When Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani speaks to the United Nations Wednesday, I will be thinking about the events of 1988, which the regime has tried to erase from history. In school our lessons contained no reference to that summer of blood. But I heard one firsthand story in 2012 from Maryam Akbari Monfared while we were both being held in Tehran’s Evin Prison for our political activities.

 
NCRI - The Iranian regime’s security forces arrested a Teacher's guild activist in Tehranand a Gonabadi dervish in Qom.Amir Ali Mohammadi Labaf, a dervish of Gonabad, was arrested by the security agents on Monday, September 18, in front of Judiciary department in Qom. In 2006 he was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment,

 
By INU Staff 
 Most often, human rights violations in Iran come as suppression of ethnic and religious minorities, restrictions on the freedom of the press, expression, or assembly, and crackdowns on human rights defenders and political activists.However, in terms of severity of punishment, the Islamic Republic is the world’s highest ranking country for executing its people. Tehran is also known as the leading state for the execution of minors.

 
By: NASSER SHARIF
 Orange County Register, September 18, 2017 - Amidst talk of Iran’s violations of the nuclear deal, a resolution was introduced in the U.S. Congress, censuring the Tehran regime for the mass murder of thousands of dissidents in 1988. The massacre claimed the lives of an estimated 30,000 prisoners of conscience
, mostly activists of the leading Iranian opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.

 

NCRI - American politician Ken Blackwell has written an op-ed for The Patriot Post, entitled Human Rights are the Key to Confronting Iran, in which he notes that change on US policy towards Iran is “imperative”.Blackwell writes that the 2015 nuclear agreement has provided far too many concessions to the Iranian Regime and has failed to achieve its objective of preventing the Regime from obtaining nuclear weapons.

 
Iran
Every year, hundreds of unarmed porters are killed or injured by Iranian security forces near the western borders of Iran mainly in the provinces of Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan and Kermanshah. The killing of porters has dramatically increased in recent months.

 

There is a correlation between the increasing rate of human rights violations and the rule of moderates in Iran’s presidential office. Whenever Iran’s “moderate” party has a president in office, the country’s human rights record deteriorates significantly.
Based on the latest statements from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zaid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, Iran’s human rights situation is, in fact, alarming. 

 

NCRI - According to the state-run IRNA News, the Spokesman of the Judicial System of Iran in a news conference on Sunday, September 17 responded to a question about the arrest of the teacher activist, Mahmoud Beheshti. Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'I claimed that people will not be arrested because of their union or religious activities in Iran. He added, "No one gets arrested due to his occupation or religion.

 
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Thank you very much for inviting me to this timing Conference in the United Nations in Geneva.I was comforted when I read the latest report of Ms. Asma Jahangir, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran. She issued a report on September 2nd for the first time referring to the massacre of over 30,000 political prisonersin summer of 1988 mostly members

 
|Commendably, the Trump administration is set to initiate a new Iran policy, which will be announced in October. Such change is imperative.The flawed nuclear agreement in 2015, provided too many concessions, including tens of billions of dollars to the Iranian regime, following decades of deceit and lying in pursuit of the nuclear bomb.Tehran’s nuclear program continues, and its military sites remain off limits to inspectors.
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