Iran: regime officials terrified of consequences of public lashes

Iran: Inhumane lashing in public

Exposing regime crimes more important than ever before

Lashing by the repressive apparatus is nothing new in Iran, existing from day one of the mullahs’ regime. The question is why has the lashing of Ghazvin University students, and the deprived Agh Darre miners of Takkab, gained so much attention and sparked such domestic abhorrence and international condemnation?

The truth is that oppression, including lashing, has been one of the main pillars of the mullahs’ regime in Iran seen across the country ever since this regime rose to power. However, in these recent measures, the mullahs have expanded lashing against other walks of life as a systematic method. This includes lashing hardworking miners, continuously arresting and lashing youths, college students and women.

While this Mid-evil method of punishment has been used for decades in Iran, it has now become an ongoing current and in a short period we have witnessed numerous cases of mass lashing in Iran. For example:

May 23: 70 youths in Neishabour (northeast Iran) arrested for taking part in a party.

May 25: lashing of 17 deprived workers of the Agh Darre gold mine

May 27: arrest and 99 lashes each for over 30 youths in Ghazvin, northwest Iran

May 31: arresting 62 youths in Bandar Abbas (southern Iran) for taking part in a party.

This composes of 4 cases in less than 10 days.

Therefore, we can conclude that these measures are pre-planned and become a new method to pursue the regime’s crackdown machine. It is natural that when these criminal methods become systematic practices, of course they will raise widespread reaction, especially since the mullahs’ regime is currently very weak and has become the target of international pressure and isolation.

Following the vicious lashing of the Agh Dare gold miners in Takkab and Ghazvin University students, and the wave of domestic and foreign hatred of such measures, the state ISNA news agency reacted on the possible consequences of such actions for the regime and cited a parliament member from Takkab by the name of Mohebi Nia.

“Using lashing, especially in public, is a method of the barbaric ages, and unfortunately in the past few days we have witnessed this cruel being imposed against a number of hardworking miners in Agh Darre,” he said.

However, Mullah Eje’i, Iran’s public prosecutor supported such practices such as lashing 35 youths in Ghazvin. “The ruling issued in this regard was according to judicial regulations,” he said.