Ahmad Vahidi
- member of the IRGC (1980 - 1984)
- Intelligence Deputy Joint Headquarters of the IRGC (1984 - 1988)
- Commander of the Quds Force of IRGC (1988 - 1997)
- Human Rights Violation: Participation in a terrorist attack on the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) (1994 - present) read more
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to life
- Description
Ahmad Vahidi, Commander of the Quds Force, is accused of being involved in the bombing of the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA). In October 2006, the Argentine Prosecutor’s Office presented an indictment against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and issued the international arrest warrants against Ahmad Vahidi and several Iranian officials. In November 2007, INTERPOL published red notices for Ahmad Vahidi and the Iranian officials. About 85 people were killed and more than 300 were injured in the AMIA bombing on July 18, 1994.
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- INTERPOL Executive Committee takes decision on AMIA Red Notice dispute
- Human Rights Violation: Participation in a terrorist attack on the Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) (1994 - present) read more
- military governor, Kermanshah (Kermanshah Province) (Jul 1988 - Jan 1989)
- Deputy Minister of Defense (2003 - 2005)
- Deputy Minister of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (2005 - 2009)
- Minister of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (3 Sep 2009 - 2013)
- Supreme National Defense University (2016 - 25 Aug 2021)
- Head of Defense Strategic Research Center (27 Sep 2013 - present)
- Minister of Interior (25 Aug 2021 - present)
- Human Rights Violation: Detaining and persecuting women to force them to wear compulsory hijab (25 Aug 2021 - present) read more
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Right to liberty and security of person, Right to privacy, Women's rights
- Description
As Minister of the Interior, Ahmad Vahidi is responsible for arresting, restricting, and threatening women for not complying with compulsory hijab. He supported the police crackdown on women who did not observe proper hijab.
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- Minister of Interior: The police are at the forefront of fighting against moral and social anomalies. Minister of Interior: the police and concerned agencies have to deal with outlaws Minister of Interior: It is a legal obligation to deal with those not complying with dress codes/ the concerned agencies must act according to their duties in this regard Minister of Interior’s response to the warning text messages sent to alleged hijab law violators
- Human Rights Violation: Killing and suppressing protesters (16 Sep 2022 - present) read more
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Children's rights, Right to freedom from torture, Right to freedom of assembly, Right to freedom of expression, Right to life
- Description
1. As Minister of the Interior, Ahmad Vahidi is responsible for ordering police and other armed forces under his command to use lethal and non-lethal weapons against people during the 2022 uprising.
The 2022-23 protests began following the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini on September 13, 2022, in the detention of the morality police of the Islamic Republic. These protests quickly spread across the country and are remembered as the largest revolutionary uprising against the government since the establishment of the Islamic Republic.
The Iranian government responded to these protests with deadly violence. According to human rights organizations, the security forces of the Islamic Republic have killed at least 551 people, with a minimum of 68 of them being children.
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Vahidi: Over 90% of those detained during recent riots expressed remorse for their actions
- Human Rights Violation: Preventing independent and transparent investigation into the poisoning of students (Nov 2022 - present) read more
- Location
- (National)
- Rights Violated
- Children's rights, Right to freedom from torture, Right to life
- Description
- As Accusing student’s parents of being traitors who gave poisonous substanceto their children to distribute in schools. Ahmad Vahidi, the Interior Minister, is responsible for preventing the discovery of truth as well as identification, trial, and punishment of the real perpetrators of widespread poisoning of students, especially schoolgirls. On 30 November 2022, the news of a poison attack at a girls’ school in Qom was published. Several videos and reports were published afterwards suggesting that the poisoning of students was spreading to schools in other cities of Iran. Ahmad Vahidi and other Iranian authorities have failed to identify and hold accountable the perpetrators of the chemical attacks on schools in Urmia and other cities. They continue to make contradictory statements and have blamed the enemies of the Islamic Republic for these incidents. In fact, many believe that these poisonings were a form of vengeance against the school girls who took part in the protests after the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022. Mahsa (Jina) Amini was killed on 16 September 2022 while being in custody of the Morality Police of the Islamic Republic. In protest of her death, a nationwide uprising broke out in Iran which is still ongoing in various forms in different cities. According to the reports of human rights organizations, the police and security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have killed at least 537 citizens, including 68 children, during the revolutionary uprising of the Iranian people.
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A number of people involved in these incidents were identified and arrested in 6 provinces
- Human Rights Violation: Detaining and persecuting women to force them to wear compulsory hijab (25 Aug 2021 - present) read more
- Member of Expediency Council (14 Mar 2912 - present)