Significance of human rights sanctions against Iran 

June 5, 2018 - In noteworthy measures imposed on May 30^th, the U.S. Treasury Department blacklisted Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, along with a number of other individuals and entities involved in the regimes’ crackdown machine.

The Iranian people and their organized resistance movement, symbolized in the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), have long called for such action. Senior Iranian regime officials comprehend the importance of sanctioning Evin Prison more than all other parties.

The following is a list of those blacklisted alongside Evin Prison:

Hossein Alakaram, head of the repressive Ansar-e Hezbollah, joined the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) back in the early years of the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s and promoted to a brigadier general.

Ansar-e Hezbollah was established in 1991 by Alakaram, a mullah by the name of Parvazi, IRGC members Naqadi, Zolqadr, Abdulhamid Mohtasham and others.

Alakaram played a significant role in a 1995 attack on a “Quds Cinema,” attempting to prevent a movie broadcast showing the regime’s repressive measures. The 1999 attack on college campuses to quell that years’ student uprising and other such quelling also saw Alakaram’s highly involved role.

In 2005 he was dispatched as a military advisor to a Balkan country and continued his activities in the Quds Force.