There are growing calls for the Iranian Regime to be prosecuted for the crimes against humanity they continue to commit to this day.
London, 6 September – Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the Iranian Resistance, made the speech at a seminar for Iranian Communities in Europe on September 3.
London, 6 September – In her message to the Iranian Demonstration in Germany on September 3, Maryam Rajavi spoke about the wave of recent protests against the ruling regime, and the peoples’ call for justice for the victims of the 1988 Massacre.
London, 4 September – In a September 2 article in PR Newswire, it’s reported that in a panel discussion organized by the U.S. Representative Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI-US), former U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain and State Department Spokesman Adam Ereli, Vice President Al Gore’s Communication Director and senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council Larry Haas, and NCRI-US Deputy Director Alireza Jafarzadeh, discussed the Iranian regime’s destructive role in the five-year-old Syrian Conflict. A new book, How Iran Fuels Syria War, was also made public.
London, 4 September – Struan Stevenson is the president of the European Iraqi Freedom Association, and also served as a conservative MEP representing Scotland in the European Parliament from 1999 until his retirement in 2014. He was the president of the Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq from 2009 to 2014, as well as serving as president of the Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup. In his article for UPI on September 2, Stevenson speaks about the execution of some 30,000 political prisoners by the Iranian regime in the summer of 1988.
London, 3 September – In an interview published on the Internet August 29, Dr. Mohammad Maleki, the first President of Tehran University after the anti-monarchic revolution in Iran, he spoke about the massacre of political prisoners in 1988, and its support by the Iranian regime’s Assembly of Experts, and Mullah Pour-Mohammadi, current Justice Minister in Rouhani’s government. Dr. Maleki stated, “The government cannot maintain its power with crime, massacre and murder.”
London, 3 September – An aspiring U.S. journalist urges the international community to help end the slaughter in Iran, where the government is at war with its own citizens, using death penalty even among minors, and breaching basic human rights.
In a recent article published on the Huffington Post’s Contributor platform, Lily Stewart, an aspiring journalist, outlines the struggle between an oppressive Iranian government and the oppressed – its own citizens, suggesting that this war has been going on since the 1979 revolution.
London, 3 September – The UK airline company British Airways have resumed regular flights to Iran, despite warnings from the Foreign Office, Metro reports.
British Airways have made the decision to re-open flights to Iran, flying from Heathrow London to Tehran six times a week, although they anticipate having daily flights in the near future. Opinion has been divided over this decision, with many international organisations, including Amnesty International, criticising British Airways for taking this step.
London, 2 September – US General Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, writing in The Washington Times yesterday, said that the “brutality” that lay behind the Iranian regime’s 1988 execution of 30,000 was “alive and well” in a government “now portrayed as being run by moderates.”
The killings, he said, in which members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) were the primary victims, represented, “the biggest massacre of political prisoners since World War II.”
London, 2 September – Raymond Tanter, who was on the senior staff of the U.S. National Security Council, 1981-82, and now heads Iran Policy Committee Publishing, and Paulo Casaca, a member of the European Parliament, 1999-2009, and now directs the South Asia Democratic Forum, had this to say in an article in The Hill on August 31.
“Hillary Clinton delivered her main speech on national security on June 2, 2016 Donald Trump gave his speech on national Security on August 15. These addresses began a conversation about national security between Trump and Clinton on the campaign trail, as both also received their respective intelligence briefings,” they began.
