US state department calls for the release of all detained healthcare workers as at least one arrested surgeon reported to be at risk of execution

US state department calls for the release of all detained healthcare workers as at least one arrested surgeon reported to be at risk of execution

Doctors are being arrested in Iran for helping save the lives of some of the tens of thousands injured during Iran’s brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests, with at least one surgeon now at risk of being sentenced to death.

The arrests and death sentence are part of a campaign of “revenge”, say human rights groups, after healthcare workers and doctors refused to ignore the plight of badly injured protesters shot or stabbed at close range, and in some cases set up makeshift treatment centres.

An Iranian surgeon, Alireza Golchini, 52, from the central city of Qazvin, has been charged with “moharebeh” (waging war against God), which can carry the death penalty, according to the Norway-based rights group Hengaw. The US state department yesterday called for his release.

  • perestroika@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m not one of his downvoters, but I think he vastly overestimates the capability of a psyop to produce articles in The Guardian. These people know various ways of checking a claim, and they don’t typically hurry, but lag behind other news outlets.

    And I think he’s not well informed about what life in Iran has been like since 1979.

    As for manufacturing consent: Trump has shown well that he doesn’t care about consent. It may eventually become a reason for his downfall, but rational arguments and credible evidence are not things the current US administration deals in.

    As for the matter of whether military intervention could help someone in Iran, or help more than hurt - I don’t know. Military interventions haven’t previously revived the dead. If the majority of protersters were killed, they cannot be helped. If the majority went into hiding, they can be helped, but it may not work as intended.

    There is also no reason to suspect Trump of genuinely wanting to help them. He has other motivations. If he was a humanitarian, he’d have ordered an immediate strike at Iran’s government communications and unmanned weapons drops for protesters when the massacre was ongoing. He considered something and intelligence indicators were in the red, but did nothing.

    • Mrkawfee@feddit.ukEnglish
      11·
      17 hours ago

      If you do some background reading you will quickly realize Trump is effectly the Manchurian candidate for Netanyahu. Bankrolled by arch Zionists like the Adelsons. Since he came into office in 2016 he has been climbing the escalation ladder for regime change with Iran.

      • JCPOA exit
      • “maximum pressure”. Massive economic sanctions that have wiped out roughly 50% of GDP, making Iran the most sanctioned nation on Earth
      • assassinations (Qassem Soleimani, nuclear scientists), sabotage
      • coordinated protest narratives
      • constant threat of military escalation, and of course
      • a decapitation strike by Israel last June

      Even before then Bush II labeled Iran part of the “axis of evil” and primed for regime change after Iraq.

      Look into Israeli and US policy papers like the Oded Plan (1982) the “Clean Break” (1996) and the Brookings Institute Paper “Which Path to Persia?” in 2009. These deal with the dismemberment of states in the Middle East along sectarian lines to strengthen Israel. The last one deals.explicitly with pathways to regime change in Iran.

      If you dont understand the context you will only ever take these flashpoints at face value when they are being used to manufacture consent for wars of aggression.