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PostPosted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:02 pm    Post subject: Mullahs Commit another Heinous Crime Reply with quote

Friday, August 27, 2004

Mullahs Commit another Heinous Crime

Source: http://iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2004&m=08&d=27&a=6

August 26, 2004
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The Iranian theocracy has been in power for more than two decades. Yet, there seems to be a dangerous misunderstanding as to how this brutal regime has survived so far. The on-again off-again loosening of some social restrictions notwithstanding, the mullahs have used sheer brutality to suppress political dissent. Sponsorship of terror and export of fundamentalism have complemented the domestic crackdown in keeping the mullahs in power.

The vast majority of the Iranian people despise the clerical regime, which explains why the clerics’ resort to repression cloaked under religion will not keep the regime viable in the long run. Nevertheless, Tehran’s barbaric justice helps it cling on to power on a day-to-day basis.

To be sure, this reign of terror is spread by a multitude of agencies and security forces to all aspects of life in Iran. These agencies include the Judiciary, the Revolutionary Guards Corps, State Security Forces, the Ministry of Intelligence and the paramilitary Bassij Force.

The Judiciary plays a crucial role in legitimizing this reign of terror. Notorious for its brutal torture of political prisoners and often lethal interrogation, such as in the case of the Canadian photojournalist, Zahra Kazemi, the Judiciary is as barbaric in its treatment of ordinary “offenders,” carrying out hanging, flogging, limb amputation, eye gouging and stoning in public.

The state-controlled dailies in Iran reported that three prisoners were hanged in public in the southern city of Kerman last Saturday. These executions brought to more than 100, the number of people executed since March 2004. But the execution last week of an under-aged Iranian girl stunned the world.

Iran Focus web site reported that on August 16, Ateqeh Sahaleh, a 16-year-old girl in the town of Neka, northern Iran, was hanged in public. Judiciary Chief Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi approved the hanging. The religious judge, who personally put the noose around Ateqeh’s neck, said brazenly that her punishment was not execution but he had her executed for her “sharp tongue.”

This inhuman killing is not only a testament to the misogynous nature of the regime in Iran, but reflects the immorality of the Europeans in promoting dialogue with the clerics and putting business before principles.

As shocking as this crime was, no one in Europe or in the United States even bothered to offer an expression of grief over, let alone condemnation of, the mullahs’ barbarity. When we turn a blind eye on this sort of savagery, we are seen as approving of such heinous atrocities and assure the turbaned tyrants in Iran that they can go about their ruthless practices with impunity.

“Direct dialogue” or striking a “grand bargain” with Tehran - the derivatives of the failed policy of engagement - only serve to perpetuate the Iranian tyranny. To end this sort of medieval brutality, Washington should take the lead in lending support to the millions in Iran who are demanding regime change. Practically speaking, it ought to reach out to the anti-fundamentalist opposition forces it has so far shunned in an attempt to accommodate Tehran.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 12:07 am    Post subject: d Reply with quote

Death and the maiden in Iran
By Alasdair Palmer
(Filed: 29/08/2004)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/08/29/do2903.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/08/29/ixportal.html

Atefeh Rajabi appears to have been a fairly normal 16-year-old: sulky, disobedient, and eager to have sex. In London, those attributes earn lectures from parents and teachers on the importance of acting responsibly and not being offensive. In the city of Neka in Iran, where Atefeh Rajabi comes from, they get you hauled up in front of a judge.


Atefeh's typical teenage behaviour meant that she was charged and found guilty of "acts incompatible with chastity". The judge in the Islamic court ruled that the appropriate penalty was death. That's right: death. Her sentence was confirmed by Iran's Supreme Court.

Two weeks ago, on August 15, the 16-year-old girl was hung from a crane in the main square of Neka, in full public view, in order to keep "society safe from acts against public morality".

Sharia law, the Islamic code which is supposed to govern punishments in Iran, states that unmarried people who have sex should be punished with 100 lashes. That was the chastisement meted out to the single man with whom Atefeh was accused of "committing acts incompatible with chastity".

Married women who have sexual relations with someone who is not their husband should, according to Sharia, be stoned to death - although Iran's chief justice, apparently revolted by the cruelty of pelting women with rocks, ruled two years ago that stonings should be abandoned.

Hanging is not prescribed for either category of transgressor. So what was the judge (one Haji Rezaie) doing sentencing an "unchaste" 16-year-old to hang? He said that she had a "sharp tongue" and had "undressed in court".

It seems that all she did was to take off her headscarf and insist that she was the victim of an older man's advances: but even if she had stripped naked and called the judge a fat ignorant bastard, those actions would hardly merit death, even under Islamic law. Nevertheless, the judge was so outraged that he decided he would personally put the noose round the child's neck.

That disgraceful and disgusting "punishment" has excited a great deal of condemnation in Iran among the reformists. As far as I can see, it has not produced any comment here. Amnesty International issued a statement expressing outrage at the execution (the tenth of a child in Iran since 1990) - but no British newspaper or television station has reported this.

Why not? The two extremes of pro- and anti-Muslim sentiment in Britain are now united in not expecting even the most minimal ethical standards from Islamic countries such as Iran: the pros because they think that Islamic laws should not be criticised for fear of giving offence; the antis because they think all Muslims are just a bunch of irredeemable barbarians.

Those two extreme views have infected media coverage. What would be headline news if it happened in America (can you imagine the response if a 16-year-old girl was executed for having sex in Texas?) is, because it happens in an Islamic state, apparently too banal to count.

That attitude guarantees that more children will suffer Atefeh's fate. Of course, it suits our Government - which is pushing for greater trade links with our new-found ally, Iran - just fine if people think that criticism of Islamic judges is inappropriate because standards are different. But respecting Islam does not require accepting the judicial murder of 16-year-olds (or indeed anyone, of any age) for having sex. That's wrong wherever it happens. We need a Government, and a press, that says so.


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 6:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The worst thing about the story of this young girl was that she was hanged from a CRANE. The regime is absolutely subhuman. They can't even show their victims enough respect to build a proper gallows.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brian - That's the regime's Modus Operandi - they hang most of the victims from cranes - many times they are hanging mroe than one person.

The bastards must be removed!!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:54 am    Post subject: S.O.S. Iran Condemning The Public Hanging of a 16 Year Old Reply with quote

S.O.S. Iran Condemning The Public Hanging of a 16 Year Old Girl in Iran

NEWS RELEASE
Iran of Tomorrow Movement (IOTM)
S.O.S. Iran
August 30, 2004


The heartbreaking news of a 16 year old girl's public execution by the Islamist regime of Mullahs in Iran on Sunday, August 15, 2004 in the town of Neka, Iran, has greatly angered S.O.S Iran and the Iran of Tomorrow Movement (IOTM) and we overwhelmingly condemn this outrageous and inhumane act of barbarism. The execution was carried out by the order of Neka's "judicial administrator" and was approved by both the Supreme Court of the Islamic Regime and the chief of the nation's "judiciary branch." We express our deepest sympathy for the family of Ms. Atefe Rajabi, who now lives in all of our hearts and will continue to fight with us in the struggle against the Clerical Regime. According to news reports, Ms. Atefe Rajabi's corpse has been stolen by the Mullah's judge, and so we ask the Ayatollahs in Iran for their justification and open statement regarding this barbaric crime against an innocent girl and the subsequent stealing of Ms. Atefe Rajabi from her resting place!

This is not the first time the terrorist regime in Iran has comitted such acts. It is well-documented that the Mullahs who hold Iran hostage have been murdering young children for the past twenty five years. The virgin girls are raped by these Islamic hooligans the night before their execution in order to "prevent them from going to heaven".

On June 23, 2003 Ms. Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian-Iranian photojournalist, was arrested, savagely raped, and beaten to death by Islamic regime officials. News agencies reported that Ms. Kazemi's body was buried on July 23, 2003, in Shiraz, Iran, contrary to the wishes of her son Mr. Stephan Hachemi who lives in Canada, and has repeatedly made formal requests for action to the Canadian government.

Stealing bodies from graves along with refusing to send bodies of murder victims to their respective countries of origin, especially when the victim's family demands such actions, are unjustifiable crimes.

Over the past 25 years the Islamic regime's Mullahs, agents, courts, judges and vigilantes have all committed acts of: murder, stoning, torture, assault, theft, destruction of property, arson, perjury, falsification of testimonials and material evidence, illegal surveillance, kidnapping, rape, blackmail, fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit all of the above crimes, cover-ups and every other form of butchery and depredation.

We the freedom loving Iranian people hold the E.U. and corporate sponsors of the terror regime in Iran responsible for the continuation of this theocracy and their ongoing tyranny in Iran. EU governments must discontinue acting in the way of old "colonialist Europe" and should instead truly and unequivocally support a future of universal freedom! We are fully aware of the historical facts regarding the destruction and tragedies inflicted on Africa by misguided European policies and we will not allow the EU governments of today to continue to destroy the hopes and dreams of the Iranian people and all people of the world in order to support the EU's welfare society!

If you are reading this document, please do your duty to humanity by forwarding this document to the media, multinational corporations and government officials in your country of residence. Please ask your media of choice or favorite talk-show(radio/tv) host to cover this most important news about what is really happening inside Iran and the hidden war between the brave Iranian people and the Mullahs who are no doubt the virus of Iranian society and planet Earth with over 1.4 million victims. Please demand that the media and government officials review the contracts between the Mullahs and the Big 3 EU countries, Japan, Russia and China, which will give the best indication of their extensive relations. The time has come for the good people of Europe and Japan to pressure their governments to stop supporting the barbaric regime before we have reached the point of no return. This is a non-partisan issue that undoutedly effects us all, and therefore all citizens of the world should work to support freedom in Iran regardless of their political leanings!


S.O.S Iran asks all G8 governments to support the freedom-loving Iranian people against the Terror Masters, and discontinue all business ties with the terrorist regime in Iran immediately. After all, the Iranian people have a proven record of fighting against Islamic Fanatics, long before Sept. 11 and despite the heavy losses they have incurred (500,000 + executions, imprisonment, rape and torture!), Iranians continue to fight against and resist the Islamofascists even as the EU, Russia and China support this regime.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 12:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sepasgozaram Cyrus jan,

i am putting all these articles on my blog.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great BLOG Stefania - DOWN WITH THE MULLAH REGIME WHO MURDER LITTLE GIRLS - MURDERS MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN. REGIME ARRESTS AND IMPRISONS ALL WHO ARE AGAINST THEM -

AMERICA MUST RISE UP AGAINST THESE FASCISTS - THIS IS OF GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN FIGHT AGAINST COMMUNISM!.....

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:29 pm    Post subject: sixteen-year-old Girl Hanging in Iran By VOA Reply with quote

Hanging in Iran

August 29, 2004
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The following is an editorial reflecting the views of the United States Government:

According to the human rights group Amnesty International, Iranian authorities have executed a sixteen-year-old girl for what were described as “acts incompatible with chastity.” Iranian officials said the girl, Ateqeh Rajabi, was twenty-two, but her national identity card reportedly said she was only sixteen. Amnesty International says she was publicly hanged on August 15th in the northern Iranian town of Neka.

Few details are available, but the charges against Miss Rajabi reportedly involved prostitution. And while she was given the death penalty for her alleged crimes, Amnesty International said that an unnamed man arrested with her was given one-hundred lashes and then released. Amnesty International also said that Ms. Rajabi was not believed to be mentally competent and that she had no access to a lawyer.

As the U.S. State Department’s human rights reports make clear, people in Iran do not receive fair trials. Those targeted by the radical Islamic regime are victims of “summary executions; disappearances; torture and other degrading treatment. . .poor prison conditions; arbitrary arrest. . .and prolonged and incommunicado detention.” Under Iran’s clerical regime, human rights abuses against women are even more severe. Among other injustices, in judicial proceedings, the testimony of a woman is worth only half that of a man.

The radical clerics who rule Iran have brought great misery and suffering to the country and its people. But as Iraq and Afghanistan move toward democracy and respect for human rights, the Iranian people will be watching closely. President George W. Bush says this is especially true of Iran’s young people:

“. . .young, vibrant, professional people who want to be free. And they’re wondering whether or not they’ll have the opportunity.”

In Iran, says Mr. Bush, “tired, discredited autocrats are trying to hold back the democratic will of a rising generation.” Many Iranians say that sooner or later, freedom and the rule of law will come to Iran. And Americans, says President Bush, “will do all in our power to help them find the blessings of liberty.”
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Question is: What part of the US Government do these views represent? If George Bush really means this:

“. . .young, vibrant, professional people who want to be free. And they’re wondering whether or not they’ll have the opportunity.”

In Iran, says Mr. Bush, “tired, discredited autocrats are trying to hold back the democratic will of a rising generation.” Many Iranians say that sooner or later, freedom and the rule of law will come to Iran. And Americans, says President Bush, “will do all in our power to help them find the blessings of liberty.”


Then tomorrow night he will KICK SOME MULLAH ASS!, other wise I think we can expect the US to pursue a lowsy European/John Kerry-type policy in which we allow the Mullahs to stay in power, fund terrorism, destroy the Middle East economy, murder Iranians, try to break the march of democracy, etc... Bush has the opportunity tomorrow night to say and do things that will put him as one of the greatest presidents ever - IF WE DON'T GO AFTER THE MULLAHS THEN WE CANNOT WIN THE BLASTED WAR ON TERROR! GET IT STRAIGHT!!!!

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:56 pm    Post subject: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Mullahs Let Off Too Easy Reply with quote

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Iran Let Off Too Easy

September 01, 2004
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Masoud Dolati


Source: http://iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2004&m=09&d=01&a=6

On Sunday, Aug. 15, a 16-year-old girl in the town of Neka, Iran, was executed by hanging.

During her trial for charges of "engaging in acts incompatible with chastity," the teenage victim did not have a lawyer. She defended herself. She told the religious judge that he should punish the main perpetrators of moral corruption, not the victims. After her execution, the judge said he had her executed for her "sharp tongue."


In summer 1988, the Iranian regime massacred about 30,000 political prisoners in the course of a few months. According to a report by Amnesty International at the time, a mass grave was discovered when the rain washed away the soil in one of the shallower graves. People started digging up the graves in the middle of the night to recover the bodies of their loved ones.

The Iranian regime is now more than a local tyranny. It is a global threat that has to be dealt with urgently. Yet, it seems that policy-makers cannot come to a solid conclusion regarding Iran, perhaps because the stakes are too high. However, without an objective and firm policy, the next global disaster could be a nuclear Iran.

The wave of global terrorism started in 1979, with the assault on the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Iran then started sponsoring satellite terrorist groups around the world. Hostage taking in Lebanon marked the 1980s. In 1987, Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a "fatwa" (decree) to murder the British author Salman Rushdie. During 1980s and 1990s, 450 terrorist operations were carried out by Iran's terror squads in Europe and the Middle East.

Amazingly, despite the mounting evidence, Iran was never held accountable. Several European countries, including France, Germany and Britain, promoted engagement in return for lucrative trade deals. France has emerged as Iran's leading trading partner. In return, last year, the French launched a raid on the headquarters of the principal Iranian opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran. In an attempt to curry favor with Tehran, the Clinton administration blacklisted a council member organization, the People's Mojahedin, in 1997.

The United States went a step further, bombing the Mojahedin camps in Iraq in return for Tehran not meddling in Iraq during and after the 2003 invasion. Not surprisingly, the clerics did not keep their side of the bargain and sent thousands of troops and millions of dollars to Iraq to fuel the insurgency.

Appeasing the mullahs might have had short-term economic benefits, but it caused great perils for the rest of the world in the long run because it emboldened the mullahs to persist in their terrorist ambitions. Tehran's traditional apologists in Washington, including former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Council of Foreign Affairs, recommended dialogue with Iran.

Without question, another round of dialogue with Iran would give the clerics more time in their efforts to procure nuclear weapons.

The option before the world community is not one of appeasement vs. military action. Both options completely ignore the crucial role Iranians have to play in their country's future. There is a resilient pro-democracy movement in Iran that has been demanding regime change. Last February, Iranians overwhelmingly boycotted the parliamentary elections. In addition, Iran has a very strong and well-organized opposition movement.

Supporting the Iranian people's demands for regime change and reaching out to the Iranian opposition movement is a wise and prudent approach. This has to be augmented by firm and clear action, including the removal of the terror tag against the opposition movement and sending Tehran's nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:08 pm    Post subject: Neka / Nekka , Iran ? Reply with quote

Neka / Nekka , Iran
N36°39' E53°17'
Neka is reportedly an important nuclear weapons research facility. In April 1996 London's Sunday Express reported that Iran was building a large nuclear reactor in the Nekka region, near the Caspian sea. According to one report, it is claimed that two 400 MW Russian nuclear reactors were to be installed in an underground bunker at this location, although the absence of corroborating reports strongly suggested that claims to this effect are unfounded.
As of 11 April 2000 Russian 2-meter resolution KVR-1000 imagery coverage was not available via the SPIN-2 service on TerraServer, nor was archived Space Imaging IKONOS 1-meter imagery of this facility available on the CARTERRA™ Archive.



Source: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/facility/neka.htm
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.iranian.com/Namazie/2004/August/16/index.html



No, she was not mad
Requiem for Ateqeh Rajabi


August 25, 2004
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Sixteen-year-old Ateqeh Rajabi was publicly hanged in the city centre in Neka in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran on 15 August for "acts incompatible with chastity" after having been arrested a few months earlier for having sexual relations [Amnesty International]. She had no attorney at any stage of the farce.

During the "trial", she expressed her outrage at the misogyny and injustice in society and "judicial" system and even removed some of her clothing. The lower court "judge" was so incensed by her protestations that he personally put the noose around her neck after his decision had been upheld by the "Supreme Court".

In some reports on her execution, Ateqah has been labelled "mentally incompetent".

I suppose it could be nothing but madness that drives a 16 year old to rage against the system. That drives Zahra Kazemi to take photographs in front of Evin prison. That drives Shahla Jahed to scream out in "court" against the torture she had faced and her execution order. That drives Maryam Ayoubi to rage against her stoning order.

I suppose it must be madness that brings hundreds of women to the streets of Iran on International Women"s Day to burn the hejab, that makes tens of thousands "improperly" veil despite the arrests and fines and harassment.

Pure madness?

Reading that Ateqeh was mad reminds me of the innumerable protesting women deemed mad for their centuries. But dear readers, there is one difference.

It is not sweet 16 Ateqah who is mad for her century but the regime that has just brutally ended her life.
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Death and the maiden in Iran
By Alasdair Palmer
(Filed: 29/08/2004)

Atefeh Rajabi appears to have been a fairly normal 16-year-old: sulky, disobedient, and eager to have sex. In London, those attributes earn lectures from parents and teachers on the importance of acting responsibly and not being offensive. In the city of Neka in Iran, where Atefeh Rajabi comes from, they get you hauled up in front of a judge.

Atefeh's typical teenage behaviour meant that she was charged and found guilty of "acts incompatible with chastity". The judge in the Islamic court ruled that the appropriate penalty was death. That's right: death. Her sentence was confirmed by Iran's Supreme Court.

Two weeks ago, on August 15, the 16-year-old girl was hung from a crane in the main square of Neka, in full public view, in order to keep "society safe from acts against public morality".

Sharia law, the Islamic code which is supposed to govern punishments in Iran, states that unmarried people who have sex should be punished with 100 lashes. That was the chastisement meted out to the single man with whom Atefeh was accused of "committing acts incompatible with chastity".

Married women who have sexual relations with someone who is not their husband should, according to Sharia, be stoned to death - although Iran's chief justice, apparently revolted by the cruelty of pelting women with rocks, ruled two years ago that stonings should be abandoned.

Hanging is not prescribed for either category of transgressor. So what was the judge (one Haji Rezaie) doing sentencing an "unchaste" 16-year-old to hang? He said that she had a "sharp tongue" and had "undressed in court".

It seems that all she did was to take off her headscarf and insist that she was the victim of an older man's advances: but even if she had stripped naked and called the judge a fat ignorant bastard, those actions would hardly merit death, even under Islamic law. Nevertheless, the judge was so outraged that he decided he would personally put the noose round the child's neck.

That disgraceful and disgusting "punishment" has excited a great deal of condemnation in Iran among the reformists. As far as I can see, it has not produced any comment here. Amnesty International issued a statement expressing outrage at the execution (the tenth of a child in Iran since 1990) - but no British newspaper or television station has reported this.

Why not? The two extremes of pro- and anti-Muslim sentiment in Britain are now united in not expecting even the most minimal ethical standards from Islamic countries such as Iran: the pros because they think that Islamic laws should not be criticised for fear of giving offence; the antis because they think all Muslims are just a bunch of irredeemable barbarians.

Those two extreme views have infected media coverage. What would be headline news if it happened in America (can you imagine the response if a 16-year-old girl was executed for having sex in Texas?) is, because it happens in an Islamic state, apparently too banal to count.

That attitude guarantees that more children will suffer Atefeh's fate. Of course, it suits our Government - which is pushing for greater trade links with our new-found ally, Iran - just fine if people think that criticism of Islamic judges is inappropriate because standards are different. But respecting Islam does not require accepting the judicial murder of 16-year-olds (or indeed anyone, of any age) for having sex. That's wrong wherever it happens. We need a Government, and a press, that says so.


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:48 pm    Post subject: Four forced to watch their father’s hanging Reply with quote

Four forced to watch their father’s hanging
Iran Focus-News Section
Sep 3, 2004



Tehran, Sep. 3 - A man by the name of Mohammad N. was hanged in public in the city of Arak, (central Iran) on Sunday, August 29.

Mohammad’s four young children were brought to the scene to watch the execution of their father.

As he was being taken to the gallows, the children pleaded for mercy for their father, who was accused of killing his wife. Reacting to the outcries of his children, the crowd also called for the victim to be spared.

Officials, however, went ahead with the hanging. As the victim was being lifted on the crane, his 15-year-old girl, Mahdiyeh, ran up to her father’s feet. While in tears, she attempted to force him on her own shoulders so that he would be able to breathe. Officials, however, prevented her from doing so and forced the children watch their father die.

The fate of Mohammad’s two daughters and two sons remains undetermined.

In the past week alone, seven people have been executed or sentenced to death, including an afghan boy, 16. On August 15, the Iranian regime executed Atefeh Rajabi, also 16, in the city of Neka, northern Iran.

International human rights organizations consistently censure Iran as the world’s leading violator of human rights.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is the horror that the EU's economic rewards have brought about.

The Shameful, Immoral, Filthy Greedy Europeans have consistantly rewarded the Murderous Mullah$ with more trade deals even after the rash of severe oppression since last February.

They haven't even objected to any of this barbarism!

The EU's financial rewards for the Mullah$' Barbarism is disgusting and an affront to humanity and decency!

Ban all EU products and services!

Shame on the EU!!!


What is even more shocking is the compliance and obediance of a nation that has witnessed these horrors for 25 years, and is still putting up with this filth of the earth, the Mullah$! And they wonder why life in Iran is h.e.l.l., what do you expect when you refuse to put a stop to the worst atrocities imaginable!

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The fate of Mohammad’s two daughters and two sons remains undetermined.


the daughters will be sold into prostitution in Pakistan, and the boys will be sold into prostitution at the Qom seminaries, this is the way of the Islamic Republic of Great Britain, run by the Murderou$ Filthy Mullah$ !!!


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