Iran on ‘execution spree’ since begin of Israel-Hamas struggle, killing 107 anti-regime activists, ethnic minority

Iran has executed over 100 folks because the Hamas terrorist assault on Oct. 7 drew the world’s consideration to Israel and the Gaza Strip, with one report referring to Tehran’s “execution spree.” 

“On Wednesday, November 15, 2023, because the United Nations Normal Meeting’s Third Committee was contemplating a decision condemning the systematic and widespread violation of human rights in Iran, the henchmen of the Iranian regime executed six prisoners,” the secretariat of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) wrote this week after extra executions befell. 

The NCRI famous that the regime, which the United Nations has condemned dozens of instances for “systematic and widespread violation of human rights,” has continued to “perform brutal executions in an growing method” and referred to as for the worldwide group to “ostracize” Iran. 

“Appeasement with this regime, which has set unprecedented information in executions, terrorism, and warmongering, is a transparent violation of all worldwide and acknowledged human rights requirements,” the NCRI wrote. 

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Protesters carry a banner, which reveals portraits of the folks executed by the Iranian regime, in the course of the rally exterior the United Nation’s Palais des Nations. They have been protesting the appointment of Iran’s ambassador to chair the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Social Discussion board. (Siavosh Hosseini/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket through Getty Photographs)

Impartial information outlet Al-Monitor, which focuses on the Center East, reported this week that Iran had executed 114 folks since Oct. 7, committing an “execution spree” for “fabricated crimes,” together with allegedly obscure prices resembling “corruption on Earth,” “enmity towards God” and “membership in Salafi teams.” 

NCRI famous that the variety of executions is nearer to 107 to this point, however it’s prone to proceed rising within the coming days and weeks. 

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Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president, speaks in the course of the United Nations Normal Meeting in New York, on Sept. 19, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

Amnesty Worldwide cited Iran because the second-leading executioner on the earth behind China in 2022, and this 12 months alone has recorded 649 executions. The watchdog, which additionally referred to as Iran’s actions an “execution spree,” famous that in Could alone the Iranian authorities executed “three folks a day on common.” 

“This arbitrary deprivation of individuals’s lives should cease,” Amnesty Worldwide wrote in a press release that additionally claimed Iran has focused its Baluchi ethnic minority group, which accounts for 20% of the recorded executions whereas making up roughly 5% of the nation’s inhabitants. 

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, left, meets Syrian chief Bashar Al-Assad in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Nov. 11, 2023. (Iranian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu through Getty Photographs)

In a separate assertion, NCRI’s chief Maryam Rajavi blasted Iran’s authorities as a “regime that can’t survive with out suppression, killing at house, warmongering overseas.” 

She additional pressured that the regime “doesn’t accord any worth in any way to the acknowledged human rights rules and requirements, together with the precise to life, freedom of expression, freedom of meeting, the rights of ethnic and non secular minorities, ladies’s rights, and the precise to due course of, and constantly violates them in probably the most egregious means.” Iran chaired a one-day human rights council on the U.N. this month, drawing condemnation from watchdog teams. 

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has tried to take a number one function in responding to the Israel-Hamas struggle and the continued operations in Gaza, which the Hamas-controlled Well being Ministry claimed has killed over 11,000 folks, although they don’t distinguish between civilian and combatant deaths and a number of U.S. officers – together with President Biden – have solid doubts on the numbers.

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A gathering final week between Center Japanese and Muslim leaders in Riyadh included not solely Raisi but in addition Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who can also be liable for the deaths of 1000’s, together with alleged assaults with banned chemical weapons. French courts this week issued an arrest warrant for Assad associated to those assaults.