Sentence confirmed, timing to be carried out for maximum effect.
[Rudaw] Iran’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
for a German national accused of heading a pro-monarchist group responsible for a deadly bombing in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
in 2008.
Jamshid Sharmahd is a German journalist of Iranian descent who was kidnapped from Dubai in July 2020 by agents of the ministry of intelligence and was taken to Iran after being accused of being involved in a 2008 bombing in Shiraz which killed 14 people.
He was sentenced to death in February, with his supporters calling on Germany to save the journalist, as they claimed his innocence.
"According to the latest reports, the sentence of the person in question [Sharmahd] has been confirmed in the Supreme Court," Iran’s judiciary's spokesperson Masoud Setayeshi told news hounds during a presser on Wednesday.
Setayeshi added that legal measures will be taken against the journalist once the court decides to do so.
Germany in February said that it was expelling two Iranian diplomats, asking them to leave the country immediately, in reaction to the Islamic republic’s sentencing of Sharmahd, which Berlin referred to as a "massive violation of the rights of a German national."
Iran responded the following week by expelling two German diplomats, declaring them personae non grata.
There are a number of dual and foreign nationals being held in Iranian prisons on charges of spying for foreign governments with rights groups accusing Tehran of using them as bargaining chips to gain concessions from world powers.
Concessions, ransom... all sorts of possibilities when the party of the first part is venal and the party of the second part is sentimental and/or lacking Marines and gunboats.
Iranian-British dual national Alireza Akbari was executed by Iran in January on charges of spying for the United Kingdom’s intelligence agency and threatening the Islamic republic’s internal and external security.The execution rate in Iran increased by over 50 percent in 2022, with the regime carrying out the death sentence against at least 500 people during that year, compared to 2021’s 330, according to a UN report from February.
The country executed at least 94 people in January and February. Nearly a third of them were minorities, according to research from
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
monitor.
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