Reported by PMOI/MEK
Iran, May 18, 2018 – In 2017 alone 507 individuals were executed across Iran.
It has been 39 years since the mullahs’ regime ruling Iran has been in power. During this period the world has witnessed a long slate of developments. What has remained unchanged is the Iranian regime’s ongoing domestic crackdown, seen in the most vicious shape and form through the mullahs’ practice of horrendous executions.
The goal of such a crackdown, as a main pillar of this regime, is to create a climate of fear throughout the society. It is crystal clear for the mullahs’ regime how their rule will not last if this fear is not spread continuously amongst the people.
Execution in Iran under the mullahs’ rule is not merely a means for punishment. Executions are in fact used as a medium by the mullahs’ regime to impose their power upon the people.
From May 5th to the 15th of this year, at least 15 prisoners have been executed in various Iranian cities.
On March 22nd, just one day after the Iranian calendar new year, alone 19 inmates of Gohardasht, Urmia, Hamedan, Tabriz, Kermanshah and Ilam prison were sent to the gallows. Eight of these individuals were mass executed in Gohardasht of Karaj, west of Tehran.
On the same day Bahman Varmaziyar, a young sports teacher, was executed in Hamedan Prison in western Iran.
Currently, political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi is on death row and numerous social media campaigns have called on international human rights organizations to save his life.
The mullahs are attempting to impose their use of executions to today’s world order. However, the Iranian people and their organized resistance are standing in the face of these measures.
The Iranian Resistance, symbolized in the National Council of Resistance of Iran and People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), is the first victim of the mullahs’ criminal executions. This movement has led a persistent freedom-loving effort to raise awareness regarding this issue throughout the international community, including the U.S. Congress.
House Resolution 4744 is one certain by-product of this global drive, under which the mullahs’ regime must be held accountable for its vicious executions. This resolution calls for justice in regards to the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners by the Iranian regime.
In the final phase of their atrocious rule the mullahs will not see to profit from increasing executions. Anger amongst the Iranian people is intensifying and this society, described as a powder keg, is ready to explode and bring down the entire mullahs’ apparatus.