Ebrahim Raisi is likely to attend next month’s United Nations General Assembly in New York. His presence at that event would afford him undue legitimacy that his “election” last year involved the lowest voter turnout in the history of the mullahs’ regime.
The phrase reflects a legacy that dates back to the massacre of political prisoners. This incident took place in the months immediately preceding his ascension to the presidency. He was designated to sit on the “death commission” in the summer of 1988.
In November 2019, that interpretation of Khamenei’s decision was seemingly proven accurate, as Raisi oversaw major aspects of a crackdown on nationwide protests, in which security forces killed 1,500 people and landed thousands of others in jail.
It is vital that the US refuse any visa request from the Iranian regime’s president and bar him from setting foot on US soil unless federal law enforcement intends to arrest him for crimes against humanity.
International community with regard to the 1988 massacre. And in recent years, the purveyors of that silence have been confronted with evidence that Tehran has not only declined to ever take responsibility for the killings but has continued to justify it.
Raises presence at that event would afford him undue legitimacy where his “election” last year involved the lowest voter turnout in the history of…
