Ebrahim Raisi’s Position, Execution of Mahmoud Mousavi, and Mass Arrests in Behbahan, Signs of Regime’s Fear, and an Attempt to Compensate Its Forced Cessation of the Death Sentence of Three Arrested Young Protesters.
While unable to conceal his anger and despair over the forced cessation of the execution of three young protesters, this morning, Ebrahim Raisi, the head of the Iranian regime’s Judiciary, described the Iranian people’s massive social media campaign against the execution verdict as “propaganda and misinformation” carried out by online bots.
The brazen remarks are reminiscent of the remarks of General Azhari, the former Shah’s army strongman and prime minister, in December 1978, who described as “voices on tape” the voices of millions of Iranians chanting, “Death to the Shah,” which were heard all over Iran.
Terrified by the encouraging impact of the regime’s temporary retreat in the execution of three young protesters, the regime’s Judiciary Chief threatened: “Propaganda and assaults against the Judiciary’s decisions will have no impact at all. … Criticisms should be heard, and the reaction should be logical.
But riots, disruption, and insecurity is the system’s red line, the country’s red line, and no one should be allowed under any circumstances to cause disruptions and insecurity in the country.”
In order to boost the morale of henchmen who call themselves “judges,” Raisi urged them to “be vigilant against violent crimes and they must firmly deal with outlaws and defiant individuals to prevent them from entering into the legal field.”
On the other hand, Brig. Gen. Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, the regime’s Judiciary Spokesperson announced that a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, 34, who has been imprisoned since September 2018 on charges of spying, was executed this morning.
Mousavi, whose father worked with the regime’s embassy in Syria since the 1980s, has been in Syria from childhood, and since the outbreak of the criminal war against the people of Syria until his arrest he served the terrorist Qods Force.
For that reason, he received a ring as reward from the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. In September 2018, Mousavi was arrested by the Qods Force intelligence unit in Syria.
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