Iran’s regime has once again revealed its true nature in the form of an overt state-backed theft; this time by confiscating and seizing the assets of opponents and closing all legal avenues to defend private property.
Azam Ghoveydel, spokesperson for the State Organization for Registration of Deeds and Properties, announced that the assets of individuals seized by the judicial system of Iran’s regime cannot be transferred even with a power of attorney. In clearer terms, the regime has not only limited itself to suppressing individuals but has also designed an official and online mechanism to plunder their assets.
This official said that even if a power of attorney for selling a property has been issued before the seizure, as long as the official transfer has not been registered, the property remains under the ownership of the individual, and as soon as a judicial order is issued, the seizure is recorded in electronic records, making any official transfer impossible from that moment onward.
These remarks come as the judiciary of Iran’s regime had previously reported the seizure of assets belonging to hundreds of opponents of the regime under fabricated charges such as cooperation with the enemy—security-related and repressive accusations that for years have become a standard tool of the regime and its affiliated judiciary to take revenge on opponents.
The confiscation of assets belonging to Iranian activists abroad and restrictions on providing legal services constitute a clear violation of Iranians’ rights and a trampling even of the regime’s own existing laws. What is happening today is not the implementation of justice, but the continuation of a policy of extortion, intimidation, and organized looting that the regime employs to silence dissenting voices.
Iran’s regime has now clearly shown that for its survival, it targets both the lives and the property of the people. A regime incapable of accountability imposes theft on the people under the guise of judicial rulings instead of the rule of law.
