Some 1,000 Iranian hard-liners demonstrated Friday to demand the death sentence for a dissident academic be carried out in a backlash against the biggest student pro-reform protests in the Islamic Republic for three years. "Aghajari should be hanged," the male worshipers shouted as they emerged from Friday prayers at Tehran University. A member of the conservative-dominated Expediency Council arbitration body said Iran's Western enemies were trying to sow discord in the country, branded part of an "axis of evil" by President Bush. "The enemies might have been discouraged from launching a military assault on us, but they are not discouraged from trying to topple the system from inside," Qorbanali Dorri Najafabadi told worshipers Friday. "The honorable Iranian nation, officials and pillars of the system should disappoint the enemy, so the enemy sees everyone in Islamic Iran is united," he said.
What good is a Islamic nation if we can't hang someone? |