How corruption is ingrained within the Iranian regime’s ruling system

The second scandal to shake the Iranian regime since the publication of Ayatollah Montazeri’s audio files in August 2016 is the accusation of Said Toosi, the regime’s top reciter of Quran, of raping 19 of his students. Toosi is a close friend of Khamenei, the regime’s Supreme Leader, and one of his favorite reciters. The scandal surrounding Toosi began when three of his victims shared written and audio evidence with the Persian edition of Voice of America, describing how they were sexually assaulted by Toosi. The victims informed the Voice of America they had filed legal charges against Toosi, but the regime’s justice system has dismissed their claims.

 As reported by WND, “in an audio recording, Toosi has stated that Khamenai knew of the sexual assaults and, together with the head of Iran’s judicial authority, had agreed to a cover-up to protect the reputation of the Nation’s Quranic Institution and the regime.” In a recent statement, Toosi has threatened to “bring down hundreds of others if he happens to go down.” In other words, Toosi states that there are hundreds of other rapists, child molesters, and pedophiles in the regime, and he is not the only one!

Since Toosi’s sexual scandal has involves top regime officials, Sadegh Larijani, the judicial authority, has described the scandal as a full-blown attack against the regime and its justice system. Last week, he stated that all the sexual assault accusations against Toosi are “absolute lies” and he has received an order from Khamenai to close the case completely. Larijani also threatened to file criminal charges against Toosi’s rape victims if they continue with the case. Larijani’s statements, in fact, indicate how regime officials are systematically supporting pedophilia and oppression against children. 

Toosi’s sexual scandal and the regime’s failed efforts to cover it up are not too surprising to those who are familiar with the history of this regime. In his religious decree regarding the massacre of political prisoners in 1988, Khomeini, the founder of the Mullahs regime ordered the virgin female prisoners—lot of whom were under 18 years of age—to be raped the night before their execution. It is important to mention here that rape as a mechanism of torture and control continues to be used to this day in the regime’s prisons and by its notorious intelligence service.  

The Mullahs regime is corrupt to its core and has a very long history of committing crimes against humanity, including the massacre of 120,000 political prisoners, mass executions, which still take place on a daily basis in Iran, religious inquisitions and persecutions, and all other forms of crimes. Despite being accused of violation of human rights for sixty five times by the United Nations General Assembly, this regime continues to oppress the Iranian people. 

The religious fascist ruling system in Iran was established by Khomeini, a psychopathic liar who had no regards for human life. In 1979, upon his return to Iran from exile, Khomeini assured the Iranian people that all their rights would be protected and respected, utilities would be free of costs for all citizens, and no one would be persecuted for expressing their ideas. After misleading the Iranian public and buying people’s hearts and minds, he began to systematically oppress them. Khomeini’s regime, in fact, is a criminal system by nature, which neither is nor will be reformable. It is a system that has been founded on deception and corruption and needs corrupt authorities to rule it, and also corrupt individuals to support it.

Neither sixty five, nor two hundred condemnation by the U.N. will stop Khamenei, Larijani, Said Toosi, and many other heartless individuals from committing crimes against humanity.  For about four decades the people of Iran have been subjected to torture, rape, murder, and mayhem, and nobody has done anything about it. Then, the only solution to stop all kinds of oppression in Iran is the complete destruction of the regime by the Iranian people, persecution of regime’s members and supporters, and establishment of a democratic national government, which protects the lives and the rights of its people.  

Iman Moridi, M.A.