Notice how the Regime has destroyed the wrestler’s entire family.  And notice the video response by Masih Alinejad, a well-known dissident journalist/activist and the organizer of the United for Navid campaign (about the wrester who was executed), and who has herself faced many death threats.  She made this video after the authorities executed dissident journalist Rouhollah Zam.  She makes the great point that the weak Regime can’t fight back against countries more powerful (and defending themselves) so it takes out is frustration on citizens and families of Iran.  See “Iran arrests father and brother of executed wrestler while cleaning grave,” Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, December 17, 2020.

“A United Nations resolution calling on the Islamic Republic of Iran to respect the rights of its citizens—and which refers to the violations faced by Iranian Baha’is—passed today at the General Assembly in New York.”  See “International support for Iran’s Baha’is highlights growing rights violations,” Iran Press Watch, December 17, 2020.

So then Iran said—“Iran Deplores Adoption of Human Rights Resolution at UNGA,” Iran Front Page, December 17, 2020.  The IRI’s position is that the resolution lacks legal credibility, and the countries who passed it were hypocrites.  Iran never addresses the specific allegations of these types of resolutions.  And rarely does anything about the claims.

“The details of the kidnapping and judicial murder of Ruhollah Zam reveal both the deep penetration by Iranian state agencies of exiled opposition circles and, no less gravely, the extent to which certain agencies of the official Iraqi state now appear to be openly doing the bidding of Tehran.”  See “Who betrayed Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam?,” Jonathan Spyer, Jerusalem Post  Middle East, December 17, 2020.

But will they dip into their sovereign fund to pay for the immunizations?  “Iran’s Aviation Organization Announces Readiness to Import Pfizer Vaccine,” Trend News Agency, Aviation Pros, December 17, 2020.

Despite the hardline repeated public statements against negotiations, the Leader really wants relief.  “Iranian press review: Supreme leader gives green light for new talks with US,” Middle East Eye, December 17, 2020.