Iran Policy Should Prioritize Human Rights

Iran systematically interrogated, condemned, and executed 30,000 political prisoners in 1988 as part of an effort to stamp out organized opposition to the fledgling theocratic dictatorship.

Both the current and the former Ministers of Justice for the entire regime were previously members of the death commissions in 1988.

The former, Ebrahim Raisi, was confirmed as the new president of the Iranian regime on June 18, after a tightly controlled electoral process in which the vast majority of the Iranian population refused to participate