The criminal regime of the Islamic Republic, in another criminal act, hastily and silently murdered (hanged) the young revolutionary Mohammad Qobadlo in revenge for the revolutionary movement of the Women of Freedom, at dawn on February 2nd. Like Milad Zohrevand, they murdered him silently to take the breath away from society and prevent anyone from daring to protest and take to the streets to overthrow this criminal regime.
The Islamic Republic executed (hanged) Kurdish cleric Farhad Salimi in Qezel Hesar prison on the same day as Mohammad Qobadlo. He was one of seven Kurdish prisoners who were arrested in 2009 on charges of “war on terror,” “corruption on earth,” “supporting Salafi groups,” and “murdering the Imam of the mosque of the Rightly Guided Caliphs of Mahabad,” and sentenced to death in 2018. Of these seven, Ayoub Karimi, Qasim Abste, Davud Abdollahi, and Farhad Salimi have been hanged so far, and the risk of execution for the remaining three: Anwar Khezri, Kamran Sheikheh, and Khosrow Basharat has increased significantly.
The criminals of the Islamic Republic silently executed two of the young people who rose up in November 2019: Kamran Rezaei, accused of murdering a Basij member in Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, and Hani Shahbazi, accused of murdering a Revolutionary Guard and a police officer, in Ahvaz Prison in December of this year.
The criminal Islamic Republic still wants to take revenge on the Iranian people for the revolutionary movement of women living in freedom. It has sentenced Mujahid Korkor to death for killing 7 people – including Kian Pirfalak – and Reza Karaseh for killing the head of the IRGC in Sahneh County, and has put these two young revolutionaries on the brink of execution.
In the so-called Ekbatan case, eight young revolutionary activists were arrested on the false charge of killing a Basij student member of the Revolutionary Guards. Milad Armon, Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini, and Mehdi Imani have been charged with “moharebeh” and “participation in murder,” and Alireza Kafaei, Amir Mohammad Khosh-ekhbal, Alireza Barmez Pournak, and Hossein Nemati have been charged with charges including “participation in premeditated murder” and “disturbing public order and peace.” According to the laws of the criminal regime of the Islamic Republic, the punishment for “moharebeh” and “participation in murder” is death.
The ruling criminals have sentenced four Kurdish political prisoners, Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad (Hejir) Faramarzi, Vafa Azarbar, and Pejman Fatehi, four members of the Iranian Kurdistan Komala Party, to death on the alleged charge of collaborating with Israel, and their lives are in serious danger.
All of these prisoners denied the charges against them and, even if they were not forced to confess to the crime during interrogation and torture, they did not accept the charges against them in court.
In another case, the Islamic Republic recently sentenced Ali Obaidavi (Batraei), who was arrested along with his brother during the November 1998 uprising on the alleged charge of “attacking a Basij base in Mahshahr,” to death.
The Islamic Republic also recently sentenced Yousef Ahmadi, a political prisoner from Sanandaj, to death after four years on charges of “rebellion” and “collaboration with a Kurdish party.”
In another case, the Islamic Republic sentenced Mohammad Zein al-Din, who was 18 years old when he was arrested in October 2020, and Adham Naroui, who was 20 years old when he was arrested in June 2011, to death for killing several IRGC members. The verdict was issued despite the fact that the two men were not present at the scene of the conflict and have repeatedly asserted their innocence and lack of involvement in the conflict in their defenses.
The Islamic Republic uses executions as a tool for repression, intimidation in society, and for political purposes, to confront its internal and external crises, and to distort public opinion. In most cases of social protests, there have been many cases where the Islamic Republic has used its agents, especially during the revolutionary movement of women living in freedom, as a bait for death, and has itself caused their deaths, to advance its dirty and criminal goals. In none of these cases was the real murderer found, and forced confessions were used to prove the crime. Forced confessions in the Islamic Republic have a long history, as long as its calamitous life. The slogan “No to executions” has no meaning for criminal regimes like the Islamic Republic, which built its foundations on the bodies of thousands of revolutionaries in the sixties and a sea of their blood, and in the following decades has pursued the same policy for its survival.
Executions, murders, and massacres are inextricable from the Islamic Republic. If you take them away from it, there will be nothing left called the Islamic Republic. The appropriate slogan for ending any kind of government violence, including executions, murders, and massacres, is “overthrow.” As long as the criminal regime of the Islamic Republic continues its wretched existence, executions, murders, massacres, torture, and repression will continue.
May the memory of all the warriors, revolutionaries, and youth whose lives and right to life were stolen by the criminals of the Islamic Republic be eternal.
Iranian Political Prisoners Association (in exile)
January 24, 2024 equals 5 Bahman 1402
