USA:s sanktioner mot Iran, Den stora Iran-tråden[Mod]

War crimes trial could cast harsh light on Iran’s new president

Case before Swedish court may reveal further details about Ebrahim Raisi’s role in mass executions in 1988

could reveal further damaging details about the role played in the mass execution of prisoners 30 years ago by Iran’s president-elect, Ebrahim Raisi, barely a week after his inauguration.

Hamid Noury, 60, was charged last week with “war crimes and murder” over the killings of more than 100 armed opponents and political prisoners during the final year of the 1980-1988 war between Iran and Iraq.

Noury’s trial is due to start on 10 August. He was arrested in Sweden in 2019 while visiting relatives.

Raisi, an ultraconservative who is scheduled to be inaugurated as the Islamic republic’s president on Tuesday, was one of four judges who sat on a secret committee set up in 1988 to interrogate thousands of prisoners.

Swedish prosecutors said last week that in July and August 1988 Noury was assistant to the deputy prosecutor of Gohardasht prison, about 12 miles (20km) west of Tehran, where hundreds of prisoners linked to the People’s Mujahedin of Iran were executed.

The Swedish public prosecutor Kristina Lindhoff Carleson said the case was being brought under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows national courts to judge defendants in very serious crimes regardless of where they were committed.

First joint naval exercise by Israel and Gulf states signals Iran worries

In a move almost unthinkable only three years ago, Gulf Arab navies have held their first joint military exercise with Israeli warships, co-ordinated by the US Navy

Iranier häktad misstänkt för folkrättsbrott 1988 – greps på Arlanda

Iransk bödel greps på Arlanda – i dag börjar historiska rättegången

Hösten 2019 fick han information om att en man han säger att han kände igen från tiden i fängelset kunde vara på väg till Sverige.

Tillsammans med en av mannens närstående gjorde han och en grupp exiliranier vad de kunde för att locka honom att komma.

– Vi gillrade en fälla, säger Iraj Mesdaghi. Vi organiserade en resa för honom. Han trodde att han skulle komma hit, dricka alkohol och festa med kvinnor.

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De nya amerikanska sanktionerna mot Iran har bland annat som mål att omvandla landets oljeexport på 1,5 miljoner fat per dag till en rännil, enligt USA:s finansminister Scott Bessent