Dismantling the Machinery of Fear: The Legal Rebirth of a Nation

The accountability process will also extend to the "lustration" of the Iranian bureaucracy and security apparatus. This involves the thorough vetting of all government employees to identify those who were complicit in human rights abuses. Those found to have blood on their hands will be permanently barred from public office and stripped of their military or judicial ranks. This cleansing of the state institutions is essential to restore public trust and to ensure that the new democracy is protected from internal subversion by remnants of the old guard who might seek to undermine the nascent civilian government.