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Position on Australian Trade Minister's trip to Ira |
"The planned trip to Iran by Australia’s Minister for Trade is taking place while the human rights situation in Iran is drastically deteriorating. There have been more than 2,700 executions during Rouhani’s tenure as President. Even though the mullahs’ regime remains the world’s top executioner per capita, this frightening figure represent a major increase in comparison to previous periods. The suppression of religious and ethnic minorities, women and other strata of society is getting far worse. Some 25 members of the minority Sunni population were collectively hanged in a single day in August. Several weeks ago, the regime’s Supreme Leader issued a fatwa banning women from cycling in public.
The trip take place after the emergence of an audio tape for the first time after 28 years of Mr. Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Khomeini’s former heir in 1988, revealing the massacre of political prisoners. In the summer of 1988, based on a fatwa by the regime’s founder Khomeini, some 30,000 political prisoners, primarily activists of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), were massacred in the space of a few months and secretly buried in mass graves. The tape contains the audio of Montazeri’s discussion with members of the “Death Commission” in Tehran who had been appointed by Khomeini. Based on corroborated and proven information, dozens of the main perpetrators of the massacre are today high office holders within the regime. Among them is Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, Rouhani’s Justice Minister, who on August 28 publicly defended his role in the massacre.
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