The anti-human clerical regime, concurrent with increasing arbitrary executions and conducting acid and knife attacks on women, is planning to heighten oppression on Baha’is. Mullah Abbas Ramadani, the Friday Imam and the representative of Khamenei in Rafsanjan, speaking to mullahs’ regime criminal officials in this town, said: “The off course Baha’i sect is unclean and selling to and buying goods from them is haram [religiously forbidden]… they resorted to many things and programs in our town and it is the rightful demand of the people that they should not be in the town; this demand should be implemented… In Rafsanjan County, there are a number of these groups and sects and they are living in neighborhoods and amongst ordinary people since people are unaware of their presence. They conduct business and they can’t even be recognized.” (Fars News Agency, affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards – December 2, 2014)
These statements are clearly paving the way for the intensification of suppression and discrimination against our compatriots who are Baha’i and they are a replicate of criminal scenarios such as acid or knife attacks against women that began by orders from Khamenei and other leaders of this regime and in sermons by the criminal mullahs against “mal-veiled” women.
Suppression, torture and massacre, including against followers of various faiths, are necessary for the survival of this medieval regime and so long as this regime is in power, the condition of human rights in Iran will not improve.
In its legislation adopted on November 12, 1985, the National Council of Resistance of Iran stipulates that in the Iran of after the toppling of mullahs, “implementation of any kind of discrimination against followers of various religions and faiths in them benefiting from individual and social rights is prohibited. No citizen has any privilege or disadvantage in being elected, to elect, employment, receiving education, being judge, or other individual or social rights because of believing or not believing in an ideology, religion or faith” and adds that “the competence of judicial officials is not derived from their religious or ideological position; and laws that are not derived from the legislative body are not recognized and lack credibility”.
Once again, the Iranian Resistance brings the attention of the international community, especially the United Nations, the European Union and the United States to the barbaric and systematic violation of human rights in Iran, including the violation of rights of followers of various religions and beliefs and faiths, and calls for adoption of binding decisions against a medieval regime that persistently violates international conventions, laws and recognized standards.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 4, 2014