Written By Daniel Bordman, Posted on November 20, 2022
November 19th 2022, as the revolution inside Iran has entered its third month the regime has gotten desperate and has decided to send in the army to try and quell the people in Mahabad, a city in the Kurdish region of the country.
Iranians are contacting me—potential massacre in #Mahabad. Video of women & children screaming, sounds of relentless gunfire & reports of regime shutting electricity. We will hold regime accountable for crimes against humanity! #مهسا_امینی
pic.twitter.com/96Y2CZrq9c— Ellie Cohanim (@elliecohanim) November 20, 2022
There are widespread reports of heavy fire being used and as the regime has cut the power in an attempt to shut down the internet to facilitate their massacre of the people.
— Zineb Riboua (@zriboua) November 19, 2022
It has been a common tactic of the Islamic Republic to push the bounds of what they can get away with if they perceive the international community to be weak. This is a key litmus test of the Biden presidency and other G20 countries when it comes to dealing with the Islamic Republic. Swift sanctions and a designation of the entire IRGC as a terrorist organization can go along way to deterring further massicares from the regime.
The Kurdish and Baloch provinces have faced the highest degrees of violence at the hands of the Islamic Republic since the start of the revolution and tonight is a massive escalation with a likely crime against humanity being committed currently.
Although the UN has a special session on Iran coming up on the 24th of November, that is too long to wait for the people inside Iran being slaughtered at the moment. This is not the first mass murder the Islamic Republic has committed and it will not be the last if the international community chooses flowery words and toothless sanction packages as it means of deterrence.
More updates to come as word continues to leak out of the city of Mahabad
Daniel is the host of political satire show Uninterrupted, runs multiple podcasts and has written for a variety of publications. Daniel is also the communications coordinator of the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation. You can find him on Twitter here. Uninterrupted on YouTube
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