OFFICIAL STATEMENT — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Toronto, Canada | 15 June 2025
The Islamic Republic of Iran must immediately cease targeting Iranian civilians and sites within Iran in a calculated effort to manufacture victimhood. ICHR has received credible reports that the regime has deliberately struck domestic targets, placing innocent lives in grave danger. This cynical tactic demands unequivocal condemnation by the international community.
At the same time, ICHR urges Israel to avoid strikes on civilians and public infrastructure as promised. While many Iranians support operations aimed at the regime’s military and security apparatus and officials who committed human rights abuses and terrors, they reject any harm to civilians or Iranian interests.
“The ongoing clash between the Islamic Republic and Israel does not represent the will of the Iranian people. It is the predictable outcome of more than four decades of systematic human-rights violations, state sponsored terrorism, and violent repression by the Islamic Republic and its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC),” said Ardeshir Zarezadeh, President of ICHR.
For nearly 45 years the regime has:
• Seized power through violence and fear;
• Executed and imprisoned citizens on fabricated charges;
• Crushed peaceful dissent with lethal force; and
• Exported terrorism and instability far beyond Iran’s borders.
The present escalation is merely the latest chapter in this history of brutality. Driven by an unquenchable lust for absolute power, and by resentment over sanctions imposed by the global community the regime again sacrifices innocent lives, Iranian and Israeli alike. Every civilian death in this conflict traces directly to the policies and operations of the Islamic Republic and the IRGC. The primary threat to regional and global stability is the regime itself, not the Iranian people, who remain its foremost victims.
“The Islamic Republic is not a legitimate government; it is a criminal enterprise sustained by brutality, deception, and systematic violations of international law and basic human rights”. Said Ardeshir Zarezadeh.
ICHR’s Urgent Call to the International Community
1. Hold the Islamic Republic legally accountable for its extensive and ongoing crimes against humanity.
2. Withdraw all diplomatic recognition of this terrorist regime as a legitimate government.
3. Stand with the people of Iran, who have long resisted tyranny and deserve unwavering international solidarity.
4. Take immediate and decisive action to prevent further loss of innocent life.
Silence is complicity. The cost of inaction is measured in human lives. The world must act now.