In this mailing: Majid Rafizadeh: The UN and EU's Silence on Iran's "Shocking Human Rights Violations" The UN and EU's Silence on Iran's "Shocking Human Rights Violations" by Majid Rafizadeh  •  September 7th  Last week, the Iranian regime's Supreme Court issued two death sentences to wrestling champion Navid Afkari, along with six-and-a-half years in prison and 74 lashes, according to Persian-language news broadcaster Iran International. His two brothers were also arrested; Vahid Afkari was given a prison sentence of 54 years and 74 lashes, and Habib Afkari received 27 years and 74 lashes. "For around 50 days I had to endure the most horrendous physical and psychological tortures... They would place a plastic bag on my head and torture me until I suffocated to the very brink of death. They also poured alcohol into my nose." — Navid Afkari, Iranian wrestling champion, in a letter. You would think that the EU or the UN would at least condemn the ruling mullahs of Iran for this brutality. Instead, they reward the regime. On August 14, the UN Security Council voted to allow the 13-year arms embargo on the Iranian regime to expire in October 2020. The ruling means that the ruling mullahs of Iran will be permitted to buy, sell and export as many conventional weapons they wish. The ruling mullahs now have enough enriched uranium to refine and build a nuclear bomb if they wish to do so. Approximately 1000 kg of uranium enriched at just 5% can be further refined to create one nuclear bomb. The UN and the EU need to hold the Iranian leaders accountable, or be discarded for irrelevance, where they appear to belong. According to Amnesty International, victims of the Iranian regime's systematic torture include children as young as 10 years old. "[V]ictims were frequently hooded... punched, kicked and flogged; beaten with sticks, rubber hosepipes, knives,... suspended or forced into holding painful stress positions for prolonged periods; deprived of sufficient food and potable water..." (Image source: iStock. Image is illustrative and does not represent any person in the article.) The Iranian regime has significantly ratcheted up its human rights violations. The United Nations and the European Union, which preach about human rights, completely turn a blind eye to the regime's abuses. According to a recent report by Amnesty International released on September 2, various branches of Iran's government, including the judiciary system, law enforcement and the Ministry of Intelligence, are involved in these abuses and crimes. The report stated: "Iran's police, intelligence and security forces, and prison officials have committed, with the complicity of judges and prosecutors, a catalogue of shocking human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, against those detained." Continue Reading Article