Iranian protesters executed and journalist arrested amid crackdown following protests
Source: CNN
Iran executed two men Saturday, according to state-affiliated Fars News, bringing to four the total number of people executed in relation to the protests that have swept the country since September.
Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini were hanged early Saturday morning, Fars News reported. The pair, who allegedly took part in anti-regime protests last year, were convicted of killing Seyed Ruhollah Ajamian, a member of the countrys Basij paramilitary force, in Karaj on November 3, according to the Irans judiciary news agency Mizan.
Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, a lawyer advocating for Karami, posted to Twitter Saturday saying that Karami was not given final rights to speak to his family before his execution. The lawyer added that Karami had begun a dry food hunger strike Wednesday as a form of protest against officials for not allowing Aghasi to represent him.
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As many as 41 more protesters have been sentenced to death in Iran, according to statements from both Iranian officials and in Iranian media reviewed by CNN and 1500Tasvir, but the number could be much higher.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/07/middleeast/iran-protesters-executed-intl-hnk/index.html
edhopper
(33,606 posts)is looking on with jealousy.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Maybe did not hear about it, what with the chaos on purpose in politics last week
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israeli-missile-strikes-put-damascus-airport-service-96061761
Also out of service are four human lives, but the airport
is ok after a few repairs
mission not accomplished at all
again.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)They did a airstrike on Iranian weapons being sent to terrorists and no Syrian airport workers were killed, 2 Syrian soldiers were and two were wounded during the strike according to your link.
Behind the Aegis
(53,976 posts)There are those who never miss an opportunity, or make one, to bash Israel. Doesn't matter it isn't relevant to the OP, the article, or even logical...it can only be said: " Forget it, he's rolling."
Elessar Zappa
(14,033 posts)Israel is a functioning democracy that respects human rights while Iran is a brutal, theocratic dictatorship.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)We installed the Shah of Iran which the religious right overthrew in the late 70s giving the world a terrorist country with nuclear ambitions.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:26 PM - Edit history (1)
Also PM Mosaddegh was hardly a shinning beacon of Democracy that many seem to think and much more autocratic.
As early as August 1952, Mosaddegh began to rely on emergency powers to rule, generating controversy among his supporters.
After an assassination attempt upon one of his cabinet ministers and himself, he ordered the jailing of dozens of his political opponents. This act created widespread anger among the general public, and led to accusations that Mosaddegh was becoming a dictator.
The communist Tudeh party's unofficial alliance with Mosaddegh led to fears of communism, and increasingly it was the communists who were taking part in pro-Mosaddegh rallies and attacking opponents.
Mosaddegh's decision to dissolve Parliament was the official pretext for the start of the coup , giving himself and his cabinet complete power to rule, while effectively stripping the Shah of his powers.
On Saturday 15 August, Colonel Nematollah Nassiri, the commander of the Imperial Guard, delivered to Mosaddegh a firman from the Shah dismissing him. Mosaddegh, who had been warned of the plot, probably by the Communist Tudeh Party, rejected the firman and had Nassiri arrested.
Mosaddegh argued at his trial after the coup that under the Iranian constitutional monarchy, the Shah had no constitutional right to issue an order for the elected Prime Minister's dismissal without Parliament's consent. However, the constitution at the time did allow for such an action, which Mosaddegh considered unfair.
He was on bad terms with the religious leaders:
Mosaddegh appointed a series of secular ministers to his cabinet during his premiership, losing his support with the clergy. In 1953, Ayatollah Abol-Qasem Kashani and his followers organised a series of protests against Mosaddegh's liberal reforms - such as the extension of the vote to women. By July 1953 when Mosaddegh asked for a critical extension of his emergency powers, "... Clerical members of the Majles who supported Kashani left the National Front Coalition and set up their own Islamic Faction...". (Muslim Warriors). This faction then boycotted the 1953 referendum about the dissolution of parliament.
At 8am on 18 August Ayatollah Behbahan mobilised 3000 stick and club wielding anti-shah protestors formed a mob in Tehran. This was done in the hope that the removal of Mosaddegh would create a more religious government. Separate mobilisation was instigated by Ayatollah Kashani in the country at this time. There has been documentation that both Ayatollah Behbahani and Khomeini received funds from the CIA by some sources. The former's mob would lead Mosaddegh to abandon his residence, and ultimately his capture. Iranian Historian Michael Axworthy stated that "... [The clergy's] move to oppose Mossadeq was the decisive factor in his downfall..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,031 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Last edited Sun Jan 8, 2023, 01:42 PM - Edit history (1)
America once again has a radical government it must call friend. Or does it?
Excellent opportunity now exists to cut the cord from an increasingly radical violence embracing, uncompromising adverse religious based government.
Its never the people, the people are people.
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)EX500rider
(10,849 posts)Israel is a multiparty parliamentary democracy.
The thirty-sixth government of Israel, or the BennettLapid government, was the cabinet of Israel that was formed on 13 June 2021 after the 2021 Israeli legislative election. On 2 June 2021, a coalition agreement was signed between Yesh Atid, Blue and White, Yamina, the Labor Party, Yisrael Beiteinu, New Hope, Meretz, and the United Arab List.
The government was the first to include an independent Arab Israeli party as an official member of the governing coalition.
On the other hand the Iranian people have been subjugated by an oppressive theocracy called the Islamic Republic, with a religious Supreme Leader overseeing all aspects of Iranian life.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)And then why is Saudi Slaughter House a friend, given that rational?
EX500rider
(10,849 posts)The Islamic Republic of Iran holds elections regularly, but they fall short of democratic standards due in part to the influence of the hard-line Guardian Council, an unelected body that disqualifies all candidates it deems insufficiently loyal to the clerical establishment. Ultimate power rests in the hands of the countrys supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the unelected institutions under his control. These institutions, including the security forces and the judiciary, play a major role in the suppression of dissent and other restrictions on civil liberties.