Ahmadinejad Reelection Protests Resonate 10 Years Later

UANI Resources Detail Continued Brutality of Iranian Regime

(New York, N.Y.) -- June 12, 2019 marks the 10th anniversary of the disputed reelection of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. During the protests that followed the declaration of Ahmadinejad’s victory, dozens of Iranians were killed and thousands more beaten by regime forces. As United Against Nuclear Iran’s (UANI) Moderation Mythbuster resource demonstrates, in the years following Ahmadinejad’s departure, the authoritarian nature of the Iranian regime remains unchanged and protests continue to be met with brutal violence.

Since the allegedly pragmatic Hassan Rouhani has been president, there have been protests over economic mismanagement, corruption, and human rights that have been met by brutal crackdowns, arrests, and death. Iranian security forces, especially the Basij, a volunteer paramilitary organization subordinate to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), have been accused of human rights abuses against these protesters. UANI has documented this activity in its reports Death, Detention and Darkness, Iran’s War on Protestors and War on Workers and Middle Class.

Iran also systematically enables violence against women and sexual exploitation of girls, harasses, jails, and flogs women for appearing in public without covering their hair and bodies, and cracks down on activists for women’s rights. UANI’s report, War on Women, details Iran’s repression. 

To read UANI’s Moderation Mythbuster, please click here.

To explore the UANI report, Death, Detention and Darkness, Iran’s War on Protestors, please click here.

To read UANI’s report, War on Workers and Middle Class, please click here.

To view UANI’s report, War on Women, please click here.