It has been a month of shame and humiliation for the West. First, the UN General Assembly held a memorial service to honor ‘The Butcher of Tehran’ – Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran who was killed in a helicopter crash on May 19. Raisi was a bloodstained executioner who boasted of his involvement in the hanging of over 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, mostly members or supporters of the Iranian democratic opposition movement the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK). For the UN, as the last bastion of the struggle to end human rights abuse and the last redoubt of fighting crimes against humanity, to commemorate such a monster was the ultimate disgrace.

Then on June 15, in a shameful act of appeasement, the Swedish government announced the release of Hamid Noury, the blood-soaked executioner also involved directly in the 1988 massacre. He was detained in Stockholm in 2019 when visiting friends in Sweden and sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity, following an extensive trial, when survivors of the 1988 massacre and families of some of the victims, gave evidence of his key role in the hanging of thousands of men and women from the MEK. Noury’s release, in a so-called ‘prisoner-swap’ for two innocent Swedish citizens taken hostage by the mullahs’ regime and jailed on trumped-up espionage charges, is a disgrace and completely undermines the EU’s system of justice, effectively rewarding the Iranian regime for their gangster tactics of blackmail and hostage-taking, emboldening them to........

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