Arrest

On November 9, 2019, Swedish police arrested Nouri at Arlanda Airport. Swedish police had been alerted to Noury's imminent arrival after a tip-off from his former son in law, Hirossch Sadeghi. Sadeghi, after unsuccessfully trying to alert two journalists at the BBC Persian and VOA Farsi, found a survivor of the executions, Iraj Mesdaghi, who immediately, in the presence of Sadeghi, telephoned Kaveh Moussavi, an Oxford based human rights lawyer in the UK. Moussavi immediately mobilised a legal team with colleagues Dr Rebecca Mooney and Matthew Jury. The legal team interviewed several witnesses, and drafted Representations setting out the factual and legal basis on which Noury was suspected of committing grave crimes during the 1988 Prison Massacres in Iran. Moussavi, Mooney and Jury, with Swedish Advokat Göran Hjalmarsson, submitted the Representations and evidence to the Swedish War Crimes Police on November 4 2019, alerting them to Noury's imminent arrival, and urging the authorities to arrest, investigate and prosecute Noury for crimes against international law. Nouri was arrested under the rules of universal jurisdiction, in which a national court can prosecute anyone for atrocities, regardless of where they were committed.

Kaveh Moussavi was instrumental in the arrest of Hamid Nouri, prosecuted and condemned to prison in life in Sweden. Crime: crimes against humanity. 

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KAmKAr 

Any kids? I am sure grown by now.  Remember the Animation movie “The Lion King”?  When Scar takes over?

That is what Islamic Republic reminds me of. 

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Yes KAmkAr, one Iranian scientist publicly mentioned that people of Tabriz are in great threats of health condition and may prompt migration due to salt storm.

While many governments address the environmental crises, Iran’s ruling theocracy accelerates them.  Now Iran’s Lake Urmia, the world’s second-largest salt lake, is steps away from drying up.  

Lake Urmia, one of the most hypersaline lakes and long counted among the world’s largest saltwater lakes, is now a triste shadow of its former self. It is now dubbed as “Urmia Desert.” 

Videos from Iran show salt storms resulting from the drying of Lake Urmia. Coupled with Iran’s high pollution rate, this means more Iranians, particularly in northwest Iran, will suffer.  

With almost 90 miles in length and stretching 34 miles at its widest point, Lake Urmia and its watershed are critical in the lives of millions of people and 226 species of birds and other animals. 

The regime could have saved this national treasure by transferring water to it or at least stopped digging wells, but it didn’t. The government of Hassan Rouhani made a fanfare about taking care of Lake Urmia, but it did nothing.  

The sad fate of Lake Urmia is part of a bigger tragedy in Iran under the mullahs’ regime: A wealthy country that has been drained of its resources by the ruling theocracy that prioritizes preserving its ominous rule above people’s well-being.  

Therefore, Iranians wrote on the dried basin of Lake Urmia: “We will avenge you! Even if it costs us our lives.”

What remain are piers that lead nowhere, the rusting carcasses of ships half-buried in the silt, and white, barren landscapes of exposed salt flats. Winds that whip across the lake bed blow salt dust to farm fields, slowly rendering the soil infertile. Noxious, salt-tinged dust storms inflame the eyes, skin, and lungs of people as far away as Tabriz, a city of more than 1.5 million about 60 miles away. And in recent years Urmia’s alluring turquoise waters were stained blood-red from algae and bacteria that flourish in these waters, which are eight times as salty as the ocean, and then turn color when sunlight penetrates the shallows.

Engineers and water experts point out that the lake in this semiarid region is suffering from thousands of illegal wells and a proliferation of dams and irrigation projects that are diverting water from tributary rivers to grow apples, wheat, and sunflowers. The experts have called on Iran’s government to change course before Urmia “falls victim to the Aral Sea syndrome,” the overexploitation of water that doomed its sister inland sea in Central Asia.

The voice of science seems to have reached Tehran. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has pledged to spend five billion dollars to revive Urmia by releasing more water from dams, improving the efficiency of irrigation systems, and switching to less thirsty crops. Yet some promised funding appears to have dried up too, thwarting progress and bringing petitions to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to renew efforts or to seek international assistance. The United Nations Development Programme is working with farmers on more sustainable practices to save water. Although U.S.-Iran relations have been strained for decades, the countries have permitted scientific exchanges to brainstorm on how to replenish the diminishing waters of Lake Urmia and Utah’s Great Salt Lake—which are close in size and configuration.