Posted on 08/20/2007 11:45:44 AM PDT by mojito
Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged US-backed plots to topple the regime, The Observer can reveal.
Many executions have been carried out in public in an apparent bid to create a climate of intimidation while sending out uncompromising signals to the West. Opposition sources say at least three of the dead were political activists, contradicting government insistence that it is targeting 'thugs' and dangerous criminals. The executions have coincided with a crackdown on student activists and academics accused of trying to foment a 'soft revolution' with US support.
The most high-profile recent executions involved Majid Kavousifar, 28, and his nephew, Hossein Kavousifar, 24, hanged for the murder of a hardline judge, Hassan Moghaddas, a man notorious for jailing political dissidents. They were hanged from cranes and hoisted high above one of Tehran's busiest thoroughfares.
The spectacle, the first public executions in Tehran for five years, took place outside the judiciary department headquarters where Moghaddas was murdered. But the location, near many office blocks and the Australian and Japanese embassies, meant they were seen by many middle-class Iranians who would not normally witness such events.
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< /leftist insanity >
Isn't that what Ron Paul advocates?
Where are the apologists? Isn’t it time for some article about Iran and how this regime is misunderstood?
CNN’s own Iranian, Christiane Amanpour will be along shortly......to help us to “understand”.
Don’t worry, the Beast will be rushing over there as soon as she’s elected (despite what she says) to give him a big hug. She loves to give Jihadist dictators a BIG hug!
Osamabama will be there too, shining the dictator’s shoes. He might also have time to shine the shoes of Ahmadinejad.
Rush said today that he loves how Edwards refuses to talk to Fox News but wants to talk to Amajihadnut.
The hangings will continue until morale improves.
I'm betting this doesn't work in their favor.
US plots? Does that mean that a woman dared show her earlobe?
Edwards’ solution? wrongful death suits!
Majid Kavousifar, 28, and his nephew, Hossein Kavousifar, 24, hanged for the murder of a hardline judge, Hassan Moghaddas, a man notorious for jailing political dissidents.
If one tries to find true Martyrdom in the Islamic world, he has found it.
Ron Paul is great in that he’s an obstructionist for the centralist thinker in Washington. Anything that expands federal powers, controls, regulations, taxes etc he will be against. He’s about state rights and individual liberties/freedom. Great stuff, but at a national level and in international politics/policies some of his views are let’s just call them, “odd.”
This will only piss off the true Iranian patriots that must despise the nuts in charge.
It seems that anything could or would qualify as "apostasy", so basically anyone can be executed at any time by those in power for no reason whatsoever.
All of the liberals would tell us that they would stand against Hitler if he were alive today, but where are they here on this except for accusing "neocons" of "war mongering" with Iran?
Now if every Iranian dissident had a gun...
Remember the people living in totalitarian system anywhere anytime whent the gun-grabbers want you to disarm. The first thing the despots do is disarming the citizens.
The squirrels must have talked.
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