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Iran: Inhuman and degrading act, by the clerical regime
July,9 2019 | Hassan Mahmoudi

Posted on 07/09/2019 1:14:36 PM PDT by hassan.mahmoud

By: Hassan.Mahmoudi

News from Iran stated that a court in the city of Shahreza, south of Isfahan, central Iran, condemned Hamid Rahmati, A member of the Isfahan Teachers Association, to three years in prison and 74 lashes. The court, issuing its sentence on Thursday, July 4th., for what the despotic ruling establishment describes as “disrupting the public order.”

Upon the court ruling, Mr. Rahmati is forced to spend ten months of his prison term in a prison in the city of Naeen, 150 kilometers east of Isfahan.

The flogging sentence will be carried out inside Shahreza prison in front of all other prisoners.

The regime uses this inhuman and the degrading tactic to intimidate other prisoners from protesting or speaking against the system.

In another inhuman and degrading act, the clerical regime ruling Iran condemned another prisoner in Ahwaz, southern Iran, to flogging in public. This vicious sentence was deliberately carried out on the streets of Ahwaz, and in public to install fear among locals and spread a sense of intimidation.

However, the people condemned this brutal act and refrained from going to the square to watch this barbaric punishment and not even one person showed up to watch the flogging.

The regime has invented more than 70 methods of torture, including severing hands and feet, gouging eyes, pressing prisoners’ heads with the vise, and rape (especially against women).

Ayatollah Montazeri, Khomeini’s heir apparent said on October 9, 1986: “Do you know many were killed under torture by interrogators? Do you know many prisoners were blinded, deafened, paralyzed or suffer chronic pains due to severe torture?”

The regime created cage-like cells, where prisoners were kept for as long as 7 months.

The regime executed 120,000 political prisoners, including even 13-year-old teenagers

Ayatollah Montazeri said: “Execution of 13- or 14-year-old girls is horrifying.”

Mollahassani, Khomeini’s representative in Urmia, said on December 23, 2000: “[Khomeini] said: If the prisoners are even one million, I will order to open fire on them and massacre them in one night.”

Under Khomeini’s orders, prison guard extracted prisoners’ blood before executing them.

Additionally, the health conditions of one of the targeted women, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe a British-Iranian dual citizen who has been detained in Iran since 3 April 2016., have deteriorated in prison. Meanwhile, Richard Ratcliffe, husband of another targeted Iranian woman.

Kidnapping and hostage-taking have been some of the main tools of the clerical regime to advance their policies.

The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran once again calls on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, and other defenders of human rights and women’s rights to condemn decisively the Iranian regime’s abduction and hostage-taking. It further calls for urgent action to free Mrs. Nazanin Zaghari.

In the meantime THE HILL, a political Website published in Washington DC. revealed few of the clerical regime’s methods to suppress Iranians on 07/06/19. The Hill wrote that Torture, which pervades the judicial process from beginning to end, serves many purposes for the Iranian regime. It deters Iranians from protesting for their rights in the first place. As one student who feared attending demonstrations remarked, “Before, you might be afraid that they would take you to jail for the day. Now, you are afraid that they will beat you and cut you.”

Additionally, Iranian courts routinely accept coerced confessions, incentivizing torture to secure convictions — and sometimes death sentences — for crimes real or imagined. Last September, the regime executed three young Kurdish Iranians. UN human rights monitors claimed the three were compelled to “confess” after being beaten, put in stress positions, and threatened with rape. Just two months ago, Tehran executed two 17-year-old boys after reportedly flogging them until they “confessed.”

Not content with using torture to aid prosecutions, the regime employs it to punish the convicted, including by executing them. Capital-punishment methods include stoning, throwing them from a height to their deaths, and even hanging from cranes — a punishment in which, as Vice reports, “the condemned is slowly lifted from the ground by his neck and left to dangle in the noose” and consequently “[i]t can take more than 20 minutes to die.” Punishments for lesser crimes include blinding, amputation, and flogging.

The U.S. and other Western countries should act against Iran’s use of torture not only out of the commitment to human rights but because the regime is using this tactic against Americans and other Westerners.

According to the international media, The Iranian communities in cities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean have gathered to condemn human rights violations in Iran. They hold a rally in Brussels, Washington DC and in Berlin. According to the news media, 15000 people participated in the Berlin Grand Rally.

Prominent politicians such as Patrick Kennedy, former US Congressman, Ingrid Betancourt, former Colombian presidential candidate, Thomas Nord, German Member of Parliament, Eduard Lintner, former German deputy Interior Minister, Stephan von Dassel, Mayor of Berlin-Mitte, Senator Jerry Horgan of Ireland, Michał Kamiński, Polish Member of Parliament, and Leo Dassenberg, chairman of Free Iran’s Committee in Germany and a former member of the federal parliament spoke at the rally.

They instead that any concession to this regime, with any justification, has only one consequence: increasing the prospect of a catastrophic war by the clerics. Each trade euro with the clerics is a euro for fueling the Khamenei repression and war machine.

The participants asked Mrs. Merkel to lead a special initiative against the Mullahs’ regime for human rights violations at the European level, including stopping persecution, execution and killing prisoners under torture and setting up an international delegation to visit Iranian prisons and political prisoners.


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1 posted on 07/09/2019 1:14:36 PM PDT by hassan.mahmoud
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To: hassan.mahmoud
However, the people condemned this brutal act and refrained from going to the square to watch this barbaric punishment and not even one person showed up to watch the flogging.

Lots of good decent Iranian people... with some of the most horrible 'leaders' in the world...

2 posted on 07/09/2019 1:22:35 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat Party: a group that "makes Americans feel like strangers in their own country. NYT)
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To: hassan.mahmoud

Today’s Nazi machine.


3 posted on 07/09/2019 1:23:06 PM PDT by Does so (A mysterious nuclear explosion would have the fingerprints of Uranium One!)
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To: hassan.mahmoud

Here we go again - getting ginned up for another war.

A modest suggestion: Rather than killing a bunch of kids (on both sides) has the brass forgotten that we have lotsa fancy technology? How about we conduct a surgical strike and blow the s*** out of 10-20 geezer-filled strategic spots? Then, drop a note: “Y’all want more? Hide ‘n watch or hands up. Your choice.”


4 posted on 07/09/2019 1:25:33 PM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: hassan.mahmoud

“The U.S. and other Western countries should act against Iran’s use of torture not only out of the commitment to human rights but because the regime is using this tactic against Americans and other Westerners.”

I sure want change in Iran, but at what cost.

Iran has 4 times the land, and 2 times the population.

The will of the American people to do what would be necessary to defeat the current regime just isn’t there.

Now if they decide to use a Nuke in Tel Aviv. Then we can talk.


5 posted on 07/09/2019 1:25:55 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: skinndogNN

Iran has 4 times the land, and 2 times the population as Iraq.


6 posted on 07/09/2019 1:26:59 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: hassan.mahmoud

The European political class acts like aliens from another planet bent on “transforming” the people of western Europe into a bunch of one-world political automatons. Wrapped up in that for some strange reason is their love affair with the Mullahs of Tehran. Wrapped up in that love affair is their hypocrisy towards Middle East regimes, where the dictatorial Saudis can do nothing right, while western European leaders remain willfully blind to all the sins of the equally dictatorial Mullahs of Tehran.

I sometimes think that if the U.S. really wanted western Europe to not support the Mullahs in Tehran, the U.S. should have been even much more favorably supportive of the regime in Iran, and then western Europe would have found its cause for not supporting them - it’s anti-U.S. bias.

There are numerous instances where the western European stance has seemed to be to merely try to stand in opposition to the U.S., as if THAT is reason enough for a “European” policy.


7 posted on 07/09/2019 1:32:17 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: QBFimi

Be logical, if we did perform some surgical strikes and took out the bad guys, how would this profit the industrial military complex?


8 posted on 07/09/2019 1:35:47 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: skinndogNN

Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria all despise the Kurds.
Before it’s all said and done, the Kurds will have their own country and there’s not a thing those 4 nations will be able to do about it.


9 posted on 07/09/2019 1:42:34 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: GOPJ

In all honesty, you wouldn’t be able to say that about our feral class... or even their leaders in congress.


10 posted on 07/09/2019 2:05:28 PM PDT by Track9
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To: skinndogNN

People generally prefer to be badly ruled by their own, than well by others.

The Iranians will have to accomplish their own regime change.


11 posted on 07/09/2019 3:31:32 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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