Stop executions in Iran

Iran is known to have the highest number of executions per capita, according to various international organizations.
Earlier this year, the United Nations described the numbers of executions in Iran as “deeply troubling,” with more than 320 executions carried out since the beginning of this year.
In 2014, Iran executed at least 721 people, according to the U.S.-based Iran Human Rights Documentation center. Although the number could be much higher.
Since the beginning of Hassan Rowhani’s two years in office, Iran has seen a record-breaking number of executions with more than 1,700 people hanged since 2013.
A report from the office of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the U.N. Human Rights Council said Iran had not kept its promise to “extend protection to all religious groups and to amend legislation that discriminates against minority groups.”
“The above-mentioned commitments have not … been translated into results,” the report said.
“Individuals seeking greater recognition for their cultural and linguistic rights risk facing harsh penalties, including capital punishment.”
The religious fascism ruling Iran, being incapable of confronting the escalating domestic and international crises and the expansion of popular protests, stops at no atrocity to intimidate the people and intensify the atmosphere of terror through barbaric public executions in front of hundreds of awestruck eyes.
In June 1st the antihuman regime of Iran hanged 19 prisoners in the cities of Karaj and Urumia.
Just a week before that, the clerical regime executed 31 other prisoners in the cities of Karaj, Tabriz, Kerman, Gachsaran, Mashhad and Ardebil from May 23 to 29; three of whom, including two men of 27 years old were hanged in public in Mashhad on May 27.
On May 24 and 25, twenty-two prisoners were hanged in Ghezel Hessar Prison, Karaj, 30 miles northwest of Tehran. A number of these prisoners were Baluchis.
International Business Times, IBT, May 28, 2015 cited France-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a political umbrella coalition of five Iranian opposition political organizations revealing that Iranian regime, in a matter of mere six days, secretly executed 59 ’activists’ in the country. Some of these executions were carried out in secret inside the country’s prisons.
The NCRI report noted that between 19 May and 21 May, the Iranian regime executed 37 people in prisons or on the streets of various cities.
The IBTimes added that while criticizing the increase in number of executions, the NCRI which is headed by Maryam Rajavi , a popular Iranian politician living in exile in France, noted in the report: ’The executions are aimed at raising the atmosphere of terror in the society in order to prevent any public expression of dissent in the country.’
The highly criticized execution reports have come at a time when Iran is inching towards reaching an agreement on the final nuclear deal. The United States, Iran, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China on 2 April reached a tentative agreement for a nuclear deal.
There were, however, several issues that were yet to be resolved and the countries had opted for a 30 June deadline to reach a comprehensive agreement.
Hanging and torturing prisoners in public aimed at ratcheting up the atmosphere of horror to contain social protests are carried out under the pretext of “villainy”, “disrupting security”, “theft” and “smuggling narcotics”. But the fact is that the greatest source of villainy, insecurity, distribution of drugs — not just in Iran, but in the Middle East and in large swathes of the world — is the religious fascism ruling Iran. Only with the uprooting of this regime will Iran, the region, and the world have peace and tranquility.
The sole way to remedy the growing economic and social problems in the dark era of mullahs’ rule is to uproot the thugs and hoodlums ruling Iran that have brought nothing but corruption and economic devastation to Iran.