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2020-07-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Iran passes death sentence, upholds jail term in French-linked cases
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 [Rudaw] 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 spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on Tuesday sentenced to death an opposition figure who had lived in exile in La Belle France before his arrest last year, and separately upheld a five-year jail term for a French-Iranian academic.
Although they are both parties to a landmark 2015 nuclear deal, Tehran and Gay Paree have seen their relations deteriorate in the past year.
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La Belle France was among the countries that passed a resolution last week at the UN's nuclear watchdog calling on Iran to clarify whether it had undertaken undeclared nuclear activities in the early 2000s, a move condemned by the Islamic republic.
The 2015 accord gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear programme, but the agreement has been on life-support since 2018, when the United States unilaterally withdrew.
Opposition figure Ruhollah Zam — who had reportedly been living in Gay Paree before Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced his arrest in October — was accused of playing an active role in anti-government protests sparked by economic hardship during the winter of 2017-18.
Authorities said he incited unrest through a channel on the Telegram messaging application called Amadnews.
"The court has considered 13 counts of charges together as instance of 'corruption on earth' and therefore passed the death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
," said judiciary front man Gholamhossein Esmaili.
Corruption on earth is one of the most serious offences under Iranian law.
Zam was also sentenced to time served over other charges, Esmaili added, noting that the sentences can be appealed.
The Revolutionary Guards described him as a "counter-revolutionary" who was "directed by La Belle France's intelligence service".
The Guards did not specify when or where Zam had been apprehended.
Zam left Iran in 2009 after the election of hard-line former president Mahmud Ahmedinejad, said Gay Paree-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
He lived in Malaysia and then in La Belle France, where his family still resides.
According to the non-governmental organization, Zam had made a trip to Iraq last autumn for a media project and never returned.
ACADEMIC LOSES APPEAL
Esmaili also announced that a five-year sentence for Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah had been upheld.
She was sentenced in May over "security charges including conspiring against national security", and will "serve five years" including time served since her arrest, Esmaili told a news conference.
A research director at Sciences Po university in Gay Paree, Adelkhah was detained in June last year and has been in jug since.
She is a dual national, a status Iran does not recognise.
Her French colleague and partner Roland Marchal, who was detained around the same time while visiting her in Tehran, was freed in March in an apparent prisoner swap.
Marchal is also a researcher at the Center for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po.
He was freed after La Belle France released Iranian engineer Jallal Rohollahnejad, who faced extradition to the United States over accusations he violated US sanctions against Iran.
Adelkhah and Marchal's cases have been a thorn in relations between Tehran and Gay Paree for months.
"We condemn this decision by the Iranian authorities who persist in holding Mrs Fariba Adelkhah only for political aims, in the absence of any serious evidence or fact," La Belle France's foreign ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
"We remain determined to secure the release of our compatriot," it added.
Adelkhah's support committee has expressed concern over her vulnerability to any outbreak of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
 ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
in prison, following a 49-day hunger strike she mounted between late December and February.
Iran is battling the Middle East's deadliest COVID-19 outbreak, which has claimed more than 10,800 lives.
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