; and disregard for the physical integrity of persons, whom authorities arbitrarily and unlawfully detained, tortured, or killed. . (5) Over a 4-month period in 1988, the Iranian regime carried out the barbaric mass executions of thousands of political prisoners. (6) In 1999, the Iranian regime brutally suppressed a student revolt that was one of the largest mass uprisings up until that point in Iran since 1979. (7) Following voting irregularities that resulted in the 2009 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian regime brutally suppressed peaceful political dissent from wide segments of civil society during the Green Revolution in a cynical attempt to retain its undemocratic grip on power. (8) Since February 2011 the leaders of Iran’s Green Movement, former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, his wife Dr. Zahra Rahnavard, and former Speaker of the Majles (parliament) Mehdi Karroubi, have lived under strict house arrest, ordered by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. (9) In response to anti-government demonstrations by citizens of Iran that began in the city of Mashhad on December 28, 2017, and rapidly spread throughout urban and rural populations across Iran in the following weeks, the Iranian regime arrested many hundreds of Iranians and killed dozens more. (10) The Iranian regime, in addition to using lethal force and widespread detentions, shut down mobile Internet access and worked to block access to social media applications, including Telegram, Instagram, and Twitter, that citizens of Iran used to share information and to organize and publicize the protests. (11) In those demonstrations, which constitute the most significant anti-government demonstrations in Iran since June 2009, citizens of Iran protested against the system of entrenched corruption and impoverishment in Iran, as well as the Iranian regime’s foreign policy of supporting terrorism. (12) Senior governmental, military, and public security officials in Iran have continued ordering, controlling, and committing egregious