We, the comrades of Unit 1012: The
VFFDP, who are murdered victims’ families ourselves, strongly agree with these
two Iranian Christian women. Your article debunks the argument that the death
penalty or any death of the killers will not help victims’ families at all.
Good to see murderers pay with their lives, this is justice and not revenge at
all.
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Maryam Rostampour (right)
and Marziyeh Amirizadeh (left) are the authors of “Captive in Iran.”
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The Lord has
made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. –
Proverbs 16:4 (ESV)
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Iran Sentenced Us to Death. Here’s How Iranians Really View the Regime.
Maryam Rostampour / Marziyeh Amirizaeh / January 11, 2020
Commentary By
Maryam
Rostampour
Maryam
Rostampour is an Iranian Christian who survived eight months in Iran's Evin
Prison.
Marziyeh
Amirizaeh
Marziyeh
Amirizaeh is an Iranian Christian who survived persecution and a death sentence
from the Iranian government.
In 2009, the
Iranian government arrested and imprisoned us and sentenced us to death by
hanging because of our evangelical Christian faith. We recounted that
experience in the book “Captive in Iran.”
We have
experienced firsthand the cruelty of the Iranian regime, including the
intelligence officers and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who were
responsible for brutally torturing our best friend, Shirin Alam Hooli, a
Kurdish activist, and her execution by hanging, among many of their other cruel
actions.
The
Revolutionary Guard is notorious in Iran as a force behind all suppressions,
arrests, tortures, and mass killings of many Iranians, including in the most
recent protests last November, in which well over a thousand (and likely more)
were killed, and many more were arrested. Also, the force is responsible for
terrorist actions across the Middle East in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and
beyond.
For many
Iranians, including us, it was a relief to hear that Maj. Gen. Qassim
Suleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force,
was killed last week in a U.S.-led strike. Suleimani has blood on his hands of
not only Iranians, but also U.S. service members, Iraqis, Afghanis, and
Syrians.
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Most people
in Iran are celebrating the death of a man who murdered innocent Iranians as
recently as the November protests. Unlike what is shown in the Western media,
people inside Iran are sending out videos through social media that show they
are privately dancing at their homes, celebrating the death of Suleimani. Some
even bake and give each other cookies to show their happiness.
In November,
thousands of Iranians were brutally killed by the regime’s agents, particularly
by the Revolutionary Guard forces under the leadership of Suleimani.
Many families
lost their loved ones, including young children, during the suppression of the
protests. Some could not even get the bodies of their children released or were
forced to pay the price of the bullet (thousands of dollars) to get their
bodies returned.
Other
families, including that of Pouya Bakhtiari, were not even allowed to mourn or
have a funeral for their children because the regime was afraid many Iranians
would join and that would lead to another protest against the regime.
If the people
of Iran had the freedom to attend the funerals of those who were killed during
the recent protests, we would likely see millions of Iranians show up and
support the anti-regime movement.
It is
important to understand that the crowd that gathered for Suleimani’s funeral
does not represent the Iranian people at large. Supporters of the regime and
those who truly mourn the death of terrorist Suleimani are in the minority.
Most of those
shown on state television are either paid by the regime—such as Basijis—or
forced to attend by regime security forces. On Monday, four people were arrested
because they expressed their happiness at Suleimani’s death on social media,
according to Iran International.
Since the
death of Suleimani, the regime has shut down schools, bazaars (shops and places
of business), and public offices and forced people to attend the funeral. It
bused school children to the funeral and even forced them to cry for the TV
cameras.
The regime
also ordered all traffic to be directed to the location of the funeral so that
even those who didn’t want to participate had no choice but to join the crowd.
It stopped all subways and trains and forced riders to leave the stations and
join the crowd in the streets.
The funeral
was just a big show orchestrated by the Iranian regime to make it appear that
Suleimani was beloved by the Iranian people, and that they want revenge for his
death—which is not what we’re hearing from firsthand sources and Persian news
sources.
We know from
our time in Iran that the regime uses threats and force to make people attend
ceremonies like this to show massive support for the government. In school, our
principals forced us to say, “Death to America and death to Israel” every day
before class and to attend speeches whenever the president or other government
authorities came to our city—and we would be expelled if we didn’t attend. The
same was true for high school and university students.
In general,
if people do not attend such gatherings, they will lose their jobs, public
benefits, and even risk their lives and security.
Meanwhile,
much of the Western media seems to be partnering with the Iranian government in
spreading the propaganda that there is massive popular support for the regime.
Western media focused on the huge crowds mourning the death of Suleimani and
tried to show that people in Iran are angry about his death and want revenge.
The reality
is that most Iranians love the United States and Americans, and would like to
establish a friendly relationship with Israel and the U.S. and live in peace
with other nations.
Iran has been
captured by this hostile regime and the mullahs (religious leaders) for more
than 40 years. Many Iranians who have been suppressed by the regime have shown,
through their protests, that they oppose the regime and want to see it
replaced.
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| Protests at Tehran's Hafez Street, 11 January 2020 |
Most
Iranians, including us, thank President Donald Trump and his administration for
standing with the Iranian people and adopting policies that are weakening the
regime’s power within Iran and in the region. We also thank Trump for putting
an end to Suleimani, a monster terrorist, and other terrorist leaders who
accompanied him.
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