Speaking at the first Sunday cabinet meeting he has headed as Israel’s new prime minister, Naftali Bennett noted the election of Iran’s new president, Ebrahim Raisi — who had formerly served as the head of Iran’s judiciary — and asserted that he was “the man infamous among Iranians and across the world for leading the death committees which executed thousands of innocent Iranian citizens throughout the years.”

Bennett continued that Raisi’s election represented “the last chance for the world powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement and to understand who they’re doing business with. These guys are murderers, mass murderers.”

Bennett stated:

This weekend, Iran chose a new president, Ebrahim Raisi. Of all the people that [Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei could have chosen, he chose the hangman of Tehran, the man infamous among Iranians and across the world for leading the death committees which executed thousands of innocent Iranian citizens throughout the years. Raisi’s election is, I would say, the last chance for the world powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement and to understand who they’re doing business with. These guys are murderers, mass murderers. A regime of brutal hangmen must never be allowed to have weapons of mass destruction that will enable to kill not thousands, but millions. Israel’s position will not change on this.

On Sunday, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was asked on ABC’s “This Week” about Bennett’s comments regarding Raisi. Host George Stephanopoulos asked Sullivan, “The new Israeli prime minister this morning, Naftali Bennett, called him the hangman of Tehran, called his election a wake-up call for the West. Do you agree with that reaction?”

Sullivan deflected:

Well, I think what we need to do in the United States is keep our eye on the ball. And that is our paramount priority right now is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. We believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve that, rather than military conflict. And so, we’re going to negotiate in a clear-eyed, firm way with the Iranians to see if we can arrive at an outcome that puts their nuclear program in the box.

And in that regard, whether the president is person A or person B is less relevant than whether their entire system is prepared to make verifiable commitments to constrain their nuclear program.

Meanwhile, the leftist newspaper The Guardian stated of Raisi’s history on Saturday:

The youngest member of the 1988 Tehran death committee, Raisi has been accused of systematically sending as many as 3,000 people to slaughter. When he was head of the judiciary floggings and executions flourished, yet many see this election as a staging post to his becoming supreme leader when Ayatollah Khamenei dies.

Acting under orders from the then supreme leader, an ailing Ayatollah Khomeini, and with the war against Iraq ending in a truculent truce, the committee agreed to eliminate jailed members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) resistance movement on the basis the MEK had self-evidently committed acts of treachery at the end of the war. Any that did not renounce their support for the MEK were doomed.

The scale of the butchery is set out in a 130-page report written by the London-based human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC. “They were hung from cranes four at a time or in groups of six with rope hanging from the front of the stage on an assembly hall.” Others were taken out at night and killed by firing squads.

The leftist site Slate chimed in:

Amnesty International called on Raisi to be investigated for crimes against humanity for his alleged role in the executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 and his role in granting impunity to other perpetrators of human rights abuses. “That Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency instead of being investigated for the crimes against humanity of murder, enforced disappearance and torture, is a grim reminder that impunity reigns supreme in Iran,” Amnesty’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said in a statement.

Human Rights Watch sent out a similar message. “As head of Iran’s repressive judiciary, Raisi oversaw some of the most heinous crimes in Iran’s recent history, which deserve investigation and accountability rather than election to high office,” Michael Page, deputy Middle East director at HRW, said in a statement.

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