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Iran’s Regime Ranks First for Executions per Capita Written by  Hamideh Taati  on  09 October 2019 . Iran’s regime holds the infamous record of the world’s top executioner per capita. It also ranks first for the most number of juvenile executions in the world. Women are also victims of the death penalty in Iran, with at least nine women having been executed since mi-June alone. Since Hassan Rouhani took office as President, Iran’s regime has executed at least 3,800 people. In fact, as early as 1980, Rouhani, as a lawmaker, had called for dissidents to be made an example of by being hanged in public. “ Conspirators should be hanged in Friday prayers for people to see them and to have more of an impact ,” Rouhani  told  a Parliament session on July 13, 1980. Executions have continued unabated in Iran all throughout 2019.  Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran-HRM)  reports that at least 199 people have been executed in Iran thus far this year. ...

1988 Massacre Memory Haunts Iran's Regime, UN Action Needed Published on  20 August 2019 . After 31 years, Iran’s 1988 massacre that sent over 30,000 political prisoners to the gallows over a few months based on a fatwa by Khomeini, has again become a live issue in Iranian society. Khomeini’s decree called for the execution of all political prisoners affiliated to the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK ) who remained loyal to the organization. ‘Death Commissions’ were formed across Iran sending political prisoners who refused to abandon their beliefs to execution. Political prisoners affiliated to other groups were executed in a second wave about a month later. The victims were buried secretly in mass graves. Relatives of victims testified in a live satellite television program last week about the event and revealed new secrets on how families had been, and continue to be, harassed by the regime to cover the massacre. They feel ...

UN: Iran Regime Hanged at Least 7 Child Offenders Last Year Written by  Mahmoud Hakamian  on  19 August 2019 . Iran's regime executed at least seven child offenders last year, while another 90 minors are on death row, according to a new report to the United Nations General Assembly by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran. The report by Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman, "A/74/188", circulated to the UN Member States on August 16, stated: "In 2018, there were seven reported cases of executions of child offenders. There are currently an estimated 90 individuals on death row who were all under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged offenses. Among the most recent cases, on 25 April 2019, two 17-year-old children, Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat, were executed" in Adilabad prison in Shiraz for an alleged crime that they reportedly were forced to confess to under torture. Mr. Rehman pointed out that the position of UN rapp...

Ministry of Intelligence's "head of hangman" concern over the collapse of the regime's foreign showcase by Bahar Mehr 03 Aug 2019 Saeed Hajjarian: Suspending Iran's UN mission may be the next decision by the US government. Hijarian wrote in the Iranian newspaper: "On the issue of the boycott of the Iranian Foreign Minister, instead of inanimate and purely propaganda arguments, measures should be taken to invite Mohammad Javad Zarif as a peacemaker and a symbol of repeated UN negotiations and to invite more Americans to the United States. finally, thought's Pompeo, Bolton, and Trump go to the sidelines.  "For this purpose, we need strong negotiations with Mr. Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, and the current US government may move to suspend the Iranian representative office in the next step." The common concern for Zarif and the closing of negotiations with the regime is that delicate listing is a huge blow to the regime...

Giuliani: U.S. 'Sympathizes' With Attempt to Overthrow Iran's Government Lawyer for United States President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, arrives prior to a funeral service for late Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 1, 2018.   REX/Shutterstock By  VERENA DOBNIK / AP   September 23, 2018 (NEW YORK) — Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, told members of Iran’s self-declared government in exile on Saturday that the U.S. sympathizes with their efforts to overthrow that country’s official government. The former New York mayor spoke to members and supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the biggest opposition group to Iran’s Islamic regime. Two U.S.-based members who joined the gathering have been targeted for assassination by alleged Iranian agents named last month in criminal complaints issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “So I say to ...

West has a chance to bring Iranian regime to heel at UN Security Council DR. MAJID RAFIZADEH September 16, 2018  this Article  the first published in Arab News The this Islamic Republic of Iran is mired in crises, few of which stem from US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and the subsequent renewed economic sanctions. Those actions only serve to help the US, and hopefully the international community as a whole, in putting pressure on Iran’s clerical regime at a time when it is most vulnerable and least likely to conceal the misdeeds that make such pressure necessary. Iran’s national currency, the rial, plumbed new depths this month,  trading  at more than 150,000 to the US dollar. The new figures provoked further economic protests in various Iranian cities, in what has become the status quo in recent months. The Iranian people view the economic catastrophe as part of the broader failings of the Iranian ...

A top U.N. expert is taking aim at the Trump administration’s efforts to tighten the screws on Iran’s theocratic regime, saying that U.S. sanctions are “illegitimate” and are driving Iranians into poverty. First of all, I must thank my colleague and my brother Heshmat Alavi for his unique work in collecting information about this person who helped me with this article. this article published in Herald Report under this title:" A Call for Western Politicians and UN officials to Stop Supporting Iran’s Genocidal Regime   " Fox News  in a report  by   Ben Evansky, Adam Shaw  wrote: A top U.N. expert is taking aim at the Trump administration’s efforts to tighten the screws on Iran’s theocratic regime, saying that U.S. sanctions are “illegitimate” and are driving Iranians into poverty. Wait a minute! what he said?  continue on fox article:  "The Trump administration has been criticized by members of both the U.N. and E.U. leaders for its decis...