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Posted on 04/02/2026 12:42:02 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
Iranian authorities Thursday executed a teenager convicted over January protests after a fast-track trial rights groups labelled as "grossly unfair", as the country ramps up executions during the war with the US and Israel.
Amir Hossein Hatami, 18, was sentenced to death in February along with six others by a Tehran revolutionary court and was hanged at dawn in the notorious Ghezel Hesar prison outside the capital, according to Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights.
The Iranian judiciary's Mizan Online website said he acted "against national security" on behalf of Israel and the United States by breaking into "a military center and destroying it in order to seize the weapons stored there" during the protests.
But Amnesty International said it was "outraged by the arbitrary execution of the teenage protester", adding the trial was "grossly unfair" and that he had been sentenced to death less than a month after his arrest.
Hatami is the fourth man to be executed over protests that broke out in Iran in late December against the rising cost of living before evolving into nationwide anti-government demonstrations. The protests peaked on January 8 and 9 and were met with a crackdown that activists say left thousands dead.
On March 19, authorities executed three men convicted of killing police in the protests, including 19-year-old Saleh Mohammadi, a wrestler who took part in international competitions.
This week, authorities have hanged four men convicted on charges of rebellion for membership in the banned People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) after their sentences were upheld by the supreme court.
Hatami "was subjected to torture and sentenced based on forced confessions in a grossly unfair trial before the revolutionary Court," said IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.
"In the past two weeks alone, three protesters and four political prisoners have been executed, and hundreds more remain at imminent risk," he added. IHR said that just 84 days had elapsed between his arrest and execution.
- 'Tool of repression' -
The seven were accused of setting fire to a base belonging to the Basij militia -- a volunteer force of the Revolutionary Guards -- in Tehran during the protests.
But defense lawyers accused plainclothes forces of trapping protesters inside a building, locking the doors, and themselves starting the fire.
Amnesty International said that the execution showed the judiciary is "a tool of repression sending individuals to the gallows to spread fear and exacting revenge on those demanding fundamental political change".
IHR said the seven men had been convicted in the fast track-trial -- just a month after their arrest -- by the court presided over by the notorious judge Abolqasem Salavati.
Salavati was sanctioned in 2019 by the United States, which said he is known as the "Judge of Death" for his frequent death sentences.
The executions came amid Iran's war with Israel and the United States which erupted on February 28 with strikes that killed the Islamic republic's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
"Hundreds more now face imminent executions in the coming days and weeks," warned Amiry-Moghaddam.
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and the commie media says NOTHING
What a bunch of sweeties the Iranians in power are.
“and the commie media says NOTHING”
I literally get twice the real news by reading Arabic papers — generally not US friendly — than all the US media combined.
Even the conservative press does very little besides read the leftists rags and repeat their stories with a different spin.
I was just about to say we need to start targetting the judges for missiles.
Wipe them all out - the regime that is.
We should be bombing Iran’s police enforcement buildings.
I believe that is ongoing.
Let more bombings commence. This was a message to Trump
Find all the judges on this court and execute every single one of them by airstrike. Tonight.
If their whole families get it too for being close to them....tough chit.
They are exhausted from defending Iranian rulers for being innocent victims of sudden surprise bombings by Trump’s orders when they didn’t really do anything to deserve the American and Israeli aggression. /S
That should be our next target...
From the article: "...hanged four men convicted on charges of rebellion."
Let the families of the deceased take it up with those who fomented the rebellion.
President Jao Bai-din threatened U.S. citizens with the use of F-15s against them, but he's as free as a bird.
Based on Trump’s agenda, this matters not.
Once again, the US Administration has encouraged people without the means to fight an oppressive overlord…and left the to, literally, hang.
Iran sucks. I am glad they are killing the leadership. But a few truckloads of small arms would be nice too. There isn’t going to be any opposition left.
There was a solution mentioned several times in the Old Testament, and that is when dealing with an enemy to kill everything that “pisseth against the wall”.
Their necks are next. The wise villains will be moving to China right now.
” But a few truckloads of small arms would be nice too.”
We do have a base right next to the Kurds, you know.
And massive smuggling routes from Iraq.
Do you really think the Mossad didn’t think of this?
They are waiting for the best and most vulnerable time. Lots of things have to line up.
But, but ... it was just a No Kings (style) protest!
Where are the blue hair union retirees screaming about this???
We should also target the prison where this sham “justice “ is taking place. I’m sure we could determine targets there to inflict maximum damage while targeting the inmates. It would serve the mullah right to free all of the opposition they have been arresting.
HA! As if.
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