The execution machine of the IRI taking lives relentlessly
In another criminal act, the Islamic Republic of Iran, hastily and silently executed (hanged) the revolutionary young man Mohammad Qobadlou on the dawn of the 23 January 2024, in revenge for the Revolutionary Movement of Woman, Life, Freedom. They killed him in silence just as they killed Milad Zahravand, in order to take the breath of the society and no one any more would dare to go to the streets to protest against this criminal Regime.
On the same day, in Ghezelhessar Prison, the Kurdish cleric Farhad Salimi was executed (hanged)at the same time as Mohammad Qobadlou. Farhad Salimi was one of seven Kurdish prisoners who, in 2009, were arrested under the accusations of “Moharebeh” (enmity against God), “Corruption on Earth,” “Supporting Salafi groups,” and “killing the Imam of the Khalifa Rashidin Mosque in Mahabad” in 2018 and sentenced to death. Four of them; Ayoub Karimi, Qassem Abasteh, Davood Abdollahi and Farhad Salimi are already executed (hanged), and the risk of execution of the remaining three; Anwar Khazari, Kamran Sheikh, and Khosrow Basharat is imminent to be carried out.
The Islamic Regime executed two young revolutionaries, who participated in the November uprising of 2019: Kamran Rezaei was accused of “killing a Basiji”. He denied the killing but they executed him in Adilabad Prison in Shiraz. Hani Shahbazi, accused of killing an “Islamic Revolutionary Guard” and “a police officer”. He denied the killings but was executed in Ahvaz Prison in December of this year.
The Islamic Regime of Iran continues to seek revenge on the people of Iran for their involvement in the Woman, Life, Freedom revolutionary movement. They have sentenced Mujahed Korkor to death for allegedly killing seven individuals, including Kian Pirfalak, and have placed another revolutionary youth man, Reza Rasai, under the threat of execution for allegedly killing the head of the Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guard) in the Sahneh county. They forced them to confess under severe torture. Later, both of them in separate voice messages, rejected any involvement in the killings and told they were forced to confess something that they never knew about it.
Ninety nine percent of political prisoners are forced to make false confessions against themselves.
In a case known as “Ekbatan”, eight young revolutionaries were arrested under the false charge of killing a Basiji: Milad Arman, Mohammad Mehdi Hosseini, and Mehdi Imani were charged with “moharebeh” (enmity against God) and “participation in murder,” while Alireza Kafai, Amir Mohammad Khosh-eqbal, Alireza Barmaz Pournak, and Hossein Nemati faced accusations, including “participation in premeditated murder” and “disrupting public order.” According to the laws of the criminal Regime of Iran, the punishment for “moharebeh” and “participation in murder” is death penalty.
The ruling criminals of the regime have sentenced four Kurdish political prisoners, Mohsen Mazloom, Mohammad (Hozhir) Faramarzi, Vafa Azarbar, and Pezhman Fatehi, all members of Komala Party of Kurdistan, to death on false charges of collaborating with Israel, putting their lives in grave danger.
All of these prisoners have rejected the charges and did not accept them. Even if they were coerced into confessing during interrogation and torture, they did not accept the accusations in court.
The Islamic Regime has recently sentenced Ali Obaidavi (Betraei) to death. He was arrested together with his brother, during the uprising of November 2019 for allegedly attacking a Basiji base in Mahshahr. The regime has also sentenced Youssef Ahmadi, a political prisoner from Sanandaj to death, after four years of being in prison, accusing him of “Baghy” (rebellion) and “collaborating with one of the Kurdish parties.”
In another case, the Iranian Islamic Regime, sentenced Mohammad Zeynoddini, who was 18 years old at the time of his arrest in October 2020, and Adham Naroui, who was 20 at the time of his arrest in June 2021, to death for allegedly killing several members of IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards). These sentences have been issued while it has been said they were not present at the scene of the fighting. They have also repeatedly said they are innocent and denied any involvement in the fighting.
The Islamic Republic uses executions as a tool for repression, instilling fear in society, and for political purposes, particularly in response to internal and external crises, as well as for deviation of public opinion.
In most cases of social protests, it has happened that the Islamic Regime has killed its agents, especially during the” Revolutionary Movement of the Women Life Freedom”, in order to put the blame on people they arrest.
In none of these cases, the real killers have not been found, and forced confessions have been used as evidence of guilt. Forced confessions in the Islamic Republic have a long and notorious history.
The Islamic Regime do not care about the slogan of “No to execution”. This does not have any meaning for criminal regimes like the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has built its foundations on the corpses of thousands of revolutionaries in the 1980s and a sea of their blood, and followed the same policy in the following decades for its survival.
Execution, murder, and killings are inseparable from the Islamic Republic. If you take them away from it, nothing would remain of the Islamic Republic. The appropriate slogan to end all forms of the regime´s violence, including executions, killings, and repression, is “Overthrow.”
As long as IRI is in power, execution, murder, torture, and repression will persist.
May the memory of all freedom fighters, revolutionaries, and young people, whose lives and right to live were robbed by the criminal regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, will last forever.
Association of Iranian Political Prisoners (in exile)
January 24, 2024, equal to 5th of Bahman,140