Posted on 11/28/2021 4:10:26 AM PST by MtnClimber
During a rendezvous at the United Nations General Assembly, the Iranian regime's foreign minister lodged a formal complaint with his Swedish counterpart about the trial of Hamid Noury, a former Iranian official, in Stockholm. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told Sweden's Ann Linde that all the documents provided to the court are "fabricated." A month prior, a spokesman for the regime's Foreign Ministry had warned, "We will naturally use all our diplomatic means to obtain and enforce Hamid Noury's rights."
Who is Hamid Noury, and why is the regime clearly terrified of his trial in Sweden?
Hamid Noury was a low-ranking official in the 1980s, formally serving as the deputy prosecutor of a prison in Iran called Gohardasht. He was arrested during a family visit to Sweden in November 2019. He was charged with crimes against humanity for his involvement in the massacre of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.
The 1988 massacre remains a dark stain on the Iranian regime's past, the blood-drenched legacy of which is still haunting officials who continue to hold key positions, including the recently installed president, Ebrahim Raisi. At the time, Raisi was a member of the "death commissions" that perpetrated the murders.
In 1988, after realizing that its position was badly weakening in the face of growing domestic opposition, the mullahs decided to annihilate committed political opponents, starting with those in prisons. Then–supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a hand-written religious decree (later publicized by his former designated heir) ordering the immediate execution of the most committed opponents of the fundamentalist theocracy, members and supporters of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).
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So let’s give these people pallets of cash and trust them to “peacefully” develop nuclear power!
TBH, I doubt that Iran is concerned about their mid-level government official so much as their reputation and their freedom to romp around Europe unencumbered. And, I seriously doubt that any of the European countries would dare go after any of the bigger fish.
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