Iranian Political Clout In Pressure From Within and Without

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An exiled Iranian group has sought help from the American judiciary to bring President Ebrahim Raisia to trial for his active participation in political massacre of 1988.

There is trouble brewing inside the power pockets of Iran as an exile group has now announced a New York lawsuit against the Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisia little before he is to attend the UN General Assembly.

There is a challenge been placed on the table for the US authorities. Only when things were looking as they were going to stabilize for the nuclear deal, skeletons from the closet are coming out to stall the process.

There are mixed opinions over whether the deal should at all go through. The exiled group is called the National Council of Resistance of Iran that has accused Raisia for having played a key role in the massacre and inhuman killing of about 30,000 political prisoners.

Under the Geneva Convention, political prisoners are to be treated fairly and they have the right to decent hygienic means of living, proper food, and medical treatment if need be. Most Iranian judicial system arbitrarily arrests individuals and refuses any judicial redressal too. Human rights are most violated.

The lawsuit is also alleging that Raisia was also a member of the ‘Death Commission,’ a group comprising four individuals who oversaw convictions and executions. This was functional when the massacre happened in 1988. These 30,000 individuals were killed because they opposed the Iranian regime in the notorious prisons of Evin and Gohardastht in Tehran.

In the summer of 1988, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering that all Mujahedin-e Khalq members and sympathizers who remained loyal to the organization be executed immediately. Thousands were hanged in the three months that followed. Neither Khomeini nor Raisia was ever brought to court of being a party to such atrocities.

There are plaintiffs who are willing to testify at the risk of their lives, once again. Most are survivors of the massacre, and some are relatives of some of the men and women who were killed. They include citizens of the US, Canada, the UK, Germany and Switzerland.

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