Iran's New President: A Mass Murderer Mullah
by Majid Rafizadeh • June 26th
Many people boycotted the elections and protesters called on US President Joe Biden to stop trying to return to the nuclear deal.
"The government is telling people to vote... We are not going to vote in order to show the world that we Iranians are frustrated with this clerical establishment. We do not support a government that shoots down a passenger plane... that lies repeatedly, and that kills and tortures its own citizens." — Soraya, a student at Tehran University, to Gatestone Institute, three days before the election.
At the age of 24, Raisi was appointed as deputy of the Revolutionary Court Prosecutor's Office. There, as a member of the "Death Commission", he would be known for, and implicated in, one of the world's largest mass executions, in which more than 30,000 people were executed, including children....
The Biden administration -- instead of enriching and empowering these tyrants -- need to stand with the Iranian people, who for decades have been suffering under Iran's brutal and predatory regime.
The Iranian regime ran a sham election to make its favorite mullah candidate, Ebrahim Raisi, linked with mass executions, become the next President of the Islamic Republic. Will the European Union and the Biden administration at least condemn the Iranian regime and stop the West's appeasement policies with the ruling mullahs?
In Iran, the regime urged people to vote, most likely to show that it enjoys legitimacy; however, what it faced was widespread voter apathy and a record low voter turnout. Many people boycotted the elections and protesters called on US President Joe Biden to stop trying to return to the nuclear deal. Anahita, an Iranian teacher from Tehran, told Gatestone, "I did not go to vote. Like many people, I did not have a candidate. So, why should I vote? The mullahs had a candidate: Raisi".
Three days before the election, Soraya, a student at Tehran University, also told Gatestone:
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