The Iranian terror

December 22 2022 (20:08 WET)

It is obligatory to show our rejection of the latest death sentences that the State of Iran has been imposing on people whose only "crime" has been to defend human rights. These death sentences are only motivated by the arrogance of an authoritarian regime in a country where the most elementary rights - especially those of women - are not guaranteed.

The latest cases, such as that of the Kurdish citizen Mohammad Mahdi Karami, who was arrested in one of the protests for the murder of the young twenty-year-old Hadis Najafi, and subjected to serious physical and psychological torture. Another example, more mediatic because he is a professional football player, has been that of Amir Nasr-Azadani. Azadani was present at the massive protests for the murder in September of this year of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was found dead after being arrested by the Moral Police only for wearing the veil badly placed. The footballer is the case that had the greatest impact in the context of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, but it is only one of the 11 detainees sentenced to death that are known these days, which are added to others already executed, such as the cases of two young people of 23 years who were publicly hanged as a threatening message for the whole of a protest movement that nevertheless does not stop.

In this sense, we have to remember that the Iranian regime is an Islamic Republic, a form of State whose institutional and normative body shares the norms of the Sharia (Islamic law) that has as one of its pillars the oppression of women, and where religious leaders can exert great power and control over citizens. In fact, many death sentences are based on the crime "moharebeh", which means "enmity against God". Until the recent protests, the term was only applied to armed activists and then this label is being distributed to anyone who questions, even peacefully, the interests of the military-clerical oligarchy.

In this strange landscape, the only objective of God's envoys - who control the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Powers - is to continue taking away Iran's immense wealth.

Our union, by means of a letter, has demanded that the Government of the Spanish State intercede, through the Ministry of the Interior, -department in charge of coordinating and executing the policies at international level on human rights-, with the objective of stopping the executions of these people, at the same time that it has made a call to the whole society to support all the protest actions in defense of life and human rights.

Manuel Plasencia. Member of the company committee of Canal Gestión representing the General Confederation of Labor (CGT)

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