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I thank the judiciary

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I thank the judiciary I thank the judiciary Statements by a senior cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who praised xmas wreath the executions during the Friday Prayer sermons at Tehran University and called for more, have raised concerns.

“I thank the judiciary for executing these two men so quickly,” Ayatollah Jannati said #x in comments broadcast on state television, “but the judiciary needs to stand firmly. Otherwise, if it shows weakness, we will suffer more. There is no room for Islamic mercy.”

Mr. Rahmanipour and Mr. Ali-Zamani were arrested before the June 12 elections, but their cases became intertwined with those of protesters arrested in the demonstrations after the elections.

Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, Tehran’s chief prosecutor general,xmas wreath said in an interview on Thursday that the two men had been found guilty of “planning to assassinate officials and to carry out explosions.” He said they had confessed to their crimes and had been tried in the presence of their lawyers.

Nasrin Sotoodeh, Mr. Rahmanipour’s lawyer, said that the confessions had been extracted under duress, and that she had not been allowed to attend the trial.

Her client’s pregnant sister was arrested and held for more than two months, Ms. Sotoodeh said, to put pressure on Mr. Rahmanipour, and the woman ultimately had a miscarriage. And his father was handcuffed and carried away when he tried to attend the trial. He was told that his son needed to make confessions.

On Aug. 17, Mr. Rahmanipour was shown in a green striped sweater on Press TV, a state-run,DVD Ripper, English-language channel, confessing to plans to bomb shrines. Mr. Ali-Zamani was shown confessing to having ties to American, Israeli and royalist agents.

On Saturday, the authorities#x held a trial for 16 protesters who were arrested xmas wreathin mass demonstrations on Dec. 27, the Shiite holy day of Ashura, during which at least eight protesters were killed. The prosecutor asked for the death sentence for five of them. 相关的主题文章：