Posted on 06/26/2009 7:28:58 PM PDT by Son House
A hardline Iranian cleric called on Friday for the execution of leading rioters to teach a lesson to the thousands who have protested against the June 12 presidential election result.
I want the judiciary to ... punish leading rioters firmly and without showing any mercy to teach everyone a lesson, Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Tehran University.
Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts, said the judiciary should charge the leading rioters as being mohareb or one who wages war against God.
They should be punished ruthlessly and savagely, he said. Under Iran's Islamic law, punishment for people convicted as mohareb is execution.
Mousavi's supporters plan to release thousands of balloons on Friday with the message: Neda you will always remain in our hearts, in memory of Neda Agha Soltan, the young woman killed last week who has become an icon of the demonstrations.
Khatami said Neda was killed by government opponents for propaganda purposes. By watching the film, any wise person can understand that rioters killed her, he said.
Britain's Times newspaper quoted Dr. Arash Hejazi, an Iranian who appeared on Internet videos helping Neda, as echoing opposition charges the 26-year-old music student was killed by a government militiaman.
She was just a person in the street who was against the injustice going on in her country, and for that she was murdered, he said.
Russia, which along with China congratulated Ahmadinejad on his re-election earlier this month, said on Friday it was seriously concerned by the use of force in Iran.
Mousavi said he was determined to keep challenging the election results despite pressure to stop.
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We should have had this guy working security after the Laker’s game.
Are you really so naive to believe that Bozo doesn’t understand what is going on? Bozo is a muslim, and he is on the side of the Mullahs, that is why it took so long for him to actually say anything at all that remotely sounded like a rebuke to the leaders of Iran. Bozo is a total traitor to the USA, a quisling, a Manchurian Candidate, a man bent on the total destruction of freedom in the USA.
Khatamai is Rev. Wright with a gun and in power.
I think Øbama has had a sheltered life, a poor education because he wouldn’t pay attention in class, and in his narrow mind believes he has been suffering suppression all his life
I am sorry, Bozo’s aims are to take over America, it is obvious, and he proposes to do this by making the USA an economic wasteland so he can declare Martial law and impose his will on us. He is being used by others, but he believes in what he is doing. I do not think he is intelligent at all but he is till evil and is a perfect figure head for the News Media’s propaganda campaign.
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