Execution

Trump would have us believe the people running Iran today are a different, new regime – that the architects of the January massacres are gone, replaced by new, more reasonable people. 

"They free a few hundred in every celebration, every festival, and it seems from outside that they are a kind and democratic and merciful regime…but they are taking hostages," said Sabti.

Lawmakers who sponsored the bill likened it to the Eichmann trials in 1961, which broadcast live and recorded testimonies of Holocaust survivors throughout the world before the execution.

Recent events, including the January demonstrations that were violently suppressed by the regime, have also seen Iran’s Kurdish community disproportionately affected by state violence.

Mehrdad Mohammadinia and Ashkan Maleki had allegedly been part of a group of demonstrators who targeted the Jafari Mosque in Tehran's Gisha neighborhood.

The new execution orders follow the state killing of Gholamreza Khani Shekarab, who was hanged on Tuesday after being accused of being “one of Mossad’s operational ringleaders abroad."

Radan also claimed that the regime’s security forces had killed “166 armed and professional thieves” who were taking advantage of wartime conditions and who resisted arrest.  

Eichmann was hanged at midnight on June 1, 1962; he was the only person in Israel’s history to be executed by the state.

Iran said it executed a 29-year-old aerospace engineer convicted of collaborating with Israel’s Mossad and the CIA by sharing classified information.

Mizan said the defendant confessed to assaulting the security officer. HRANA quoted an informed source as saying Abdollahzadeh was subject to torture to extract forced confessions.