Executions in Iran

You mentioned the executions that have gone there, and human rights groups are saying there have been a couple of dozen, and you mentioned 8 of those are MEK members. Why do you think the regime, the Iranian regime as it exists now, is carrying these out? But more importantly, what’s the message that that sends to the rest of the world? 

The regime’s objective in carrying out these executions is to prevent an uprising and also to instill fear in the people who rose up in January for freedom and the overthrow of the regime. It knows that the war will eventually end, and that the already explosive conditions in society will become even more intense, with larger uprisings on the horizon. Therefore, on the one hand, it seeks—by its own calculation—to instill fear and terror among the public, especially the youth, to deter them from pursuing protest and rebellion.

On the other hand, it aims to prevent young people from joining resistance units and to halt their expansion, because these units play a significant role in organizing, spreading, and sustaining uprisings.

However, what the regime fails to grasp is that it is confronting a generation that is in no way willing to tolerate the mullahs’ crackdown and suppression. This is a generation that has found its path in organized resistance and is prepared to pay whatever price it takes.

As Thomas Paine said, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

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