Behind the Headlines/December 10

tonight’s program we discuss the following news stories with our guest Mitra Jashni, who is a painter as well as a member of the opposition group Farashgard:

Two decades after the documented massacre of Iran’s political prisoners, cleric Ebrahim Raeesi who competed with Rouhani for presidency says he is “proud” of having been involved in ordering their execution.
We will look at forty years of bloody history of the Iranian regime and its human rights violations.

Also, the student movement in Iran has now declared its support for the striking truckers and workers in various industries across the country.

Mitra Jashni:

The executions of Iran’s political prisoners in the 80s has been recorded as crime against humanity and those responsible for it must be brought to justice.

Now Amnesty International are following the case and compared it with the Holocaust.

But the regime has been trying to remove all evidences of its crimes by bulldozing the mass graves of the victims.

Still worse, certain so-called activists who live in exile are part of the propaganda campaign of the regime to whitewash its crimes.

One such person is even calling for the Iranian regime to arm itself with nuclear bomb to deter the pressure from foreign powers.