Friday , 29 March 2024

Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery by the Security Apparatus of the Ruling Regime in Iran

Shabtabnews – According to recent reports the Iranian regime ranks amongst the worst offenders in human trafficking. As the annual TiP report which ranks countries in a three-tier system on their effectiveness in tackling human trafficking and other forms of slavery, placed Iran on its global list of worst offenders in human trafficking and forced labor.

In this regards the following article sheds light on the the Despicable Practices of Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery by the Security Apparatus of the Ruling Regime in Iran:

According to the reports from multiple international organizations, Iran is one of the primary sources and points of exchange – both in terms of import and export – of human trafficking and sex slaves in the world. The following constitutes a brief summary of some of the most appalling statistics regarding the Iranian regime’s engagement in these practices:

  • The non-profit organization “The Organization for Defending Victims of Violence” reported in 2003 that approximately 45 Iranian girls between the ages of 16-26 years old are sold each month in Karachi, Pakistan to wealthy individuals.
  • In August 2004, a high ranking cleric named Hojatoleslam Mojtaba Keshani, who served on the central council of the hardline Ansar-i Hizbullah political organization at the time, publicly announced that he had ample evidence that high-ranking members of the security apparatus in Iran, with ties to the regime’s ruling class, were the leaders of human trafficking and sex slavery rings, responsible for the abduction and sale of young Iranian girls (and some boys as well) to surrounding countries and even Europe. No one has seen or heard from Mr. Keshani since.
  • In an article published 14 years ago by the quarterly human rights publication “The Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peoples” (MRAP), the dire status of the children in Iran is discussed at length and described as a “Tragic Nightmare.” This article similarly reported that approximately 50 Iranian girls between the ages of 16-25 years old are sold daily in Karachi, Pakistan by the agents of high-ranking officials in Iran.
  • According to an official statement by the chief of INTERPOL in the fall of 2006, human trafficking and the sex slave trade are lucrative businesses for the clergy in Iran. As an example, he cited that after the devastating earthquake in Bam, Iran, authorities abducted the orphaned girls and auctioned them off to wealthy Iranian and foreign individuals in Tehran.
  • In an article published by the “Ham Mihan” news agency in April 2009, details of the lucrative business of selling Iranian girls in India were exposed.
  • In a report on December 13, 2010 by the “Al Arabia News,” based on documents published by WikiLeaks, an Iraqi official detailed the practice of Khamenei’s regime of exploiting Iranian women to provide sex for Iraqi and Arab high-ranking officials in order to expand Iran’s influence in the region.
  • In an interview in December 2013, the head of the police for the immigration and passport office in Iran confirmed the fact that Iranian girls are routinely smuggled to the surrounding Arab countries where they are sold as sex slaves, but brushed off the extent and severity of the issue as only a few random cases.
  • In a report by the U.S. State Department in 2017, Iran was identified as a non-signatory to and non-compliant with the U.N. TIP protocol. The same report details the trafficking and sale of young Iranian children aged 13-17, mostly girls, in Afghanistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Pakistan, UAE and Europe where the younger children are used as servants until they are old enough to be sex slaves.
  • This past April, the “Young Reporters” news agency (part of the official media of the regime) reported the arrest of a human trafficking ringleader named Shahrooz Sokhanvary, responsible for selling young Iranian girls in Malaysia. In his confession, he admits of his ties to several high-ranking officials of the regime who had protected him from legal pursuit over the years.
  • Mullahs are the primary operators of the brothel houses in Iran, where they provide temporary marriage services, sometimes as short as few minutes, to their patrons in order to give their abhorrent business a legal and legitimate appearance. But the other, more sinister side of the mullahs’ business is to identify their victims for abduction and sale overseas.
  • The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) routinely recruits agents from within the destitute ethnic minority communities, such as the Baluchis, to scout these communities for possible victims. In some cases, the IRGC even purchases these young girls from their parents (because of the abject poverty imposed on these ethnic groups) rather than abducting them.
  • The official social services agencies that are supposed to provide basic social and financial safety nets for the poor and the needy are another instrument of the regime to identify desperate families to prey upon.
  • Prison authorities routinely exploit the families of the prisoners who have lost their breadwinner and live in abject poverty by offering financial assistance and money in return for their young children.
  • The sale of infants by their parents has grown to a point that it has become an established business run by the people connected to the IRGC and high-ranking members of the security apparatus.
  • Another method used by these criminals is to formally adopt their victims with the aid of corrupt officials who facilitate and approve the adoptions in record time. Then, with proper legal documents and as the children’s legal adoptive parents, these human traffickers take their victims to the desired markets all over the world and sell them

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