Watch the European dhimmis quail over this one. "Rights group urges EU to pressure Iran to stop execution," from Iran Focus, with thanks to Mackie:
London, May 13 – A Tehran-based human rights group has called on the European Union to pressure Iran to suspend the imminent execution of a long-time political prisoner.In a letter to the Austrian embassy in Tehran, a copy of which was emailed to Iran Focus, the group calling itself Human Rights Activists in Iran said that the lives of seven political prisoners were in danger after they were issued death sentences. Austria currently holds the EU’s rotating Presidency.
The letter highlighted the case of Valiollah Feyz-Mahdavi, a 28-year-old member of Iran’s main opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI).
Feyz-Mahdavi was arrested in 2001 for sympathising with the PMOI and has endured torture in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran.
“In the last measure of the mullahs' regime, prisoner Vali Ollah Feiz Mahdavi, was forced to sign the commandment to his execution in Gohar Dasht Prison in Karaj, which was put into place by the Judgment Enforcement of the Court of Justice and brought to him by Ali Mohammadi, the director of the Gohar Dasht, Karaj Prison”, the group said, adding that Feyz-Mahdavi had been scheduled to be executed on May 15.
The group called on the EU Presidency to refer the case to the European Parliament so that pressure could be put on Tehran to prevent the execution.
The Peoples Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI causes a problem for many a Jihad Watcher, especially those of rightist (conservative) predilections as it is Marxist, and I think that it is the reformulation Mojahedin e-Khalq, a Marxist - Islamist organization that ran it's own terror campaign against the Mullahs until it was driven out of Iran, given refuge in Baghdad by Saddam, and since the invasion and the new Shi'a/Iranian government of Iran, it has become a target of assassination and official persecution by the Ministry of the Interior and it's right wing death squads (the Badr Brigade).
Click on the link, and check out it's Hammer and Sickle Symbol in the upper right. I don't have a problem with the PMOI, but I suspect that many a "conservative" Jihad Watcher or LGF'er will, as it poses a dilemna.
I am reposting something I posted yesterday.
The Great Betrayal:
Calling it a War on Terror. There is no such thing as a War on Nouns, because Nouns can't surrender or be defeated.
It is a defensive war against Islam whose warriors are mujihadeen.
Mujihadeen: n. Arabic. One who struggles/fights for the faith.
They aren't terrorists (though they use terror as a psychological weapon), but warriors for the faith, and the faith is Islam, who stand ready to become "martyrs" (Shaheeds or witnesses)for the faith They have no central command, and no organizational chart or command structure, but they have a headquarters and the headquarters is Dar al Islam.
Time to abandon the misleading verbage "War on Terror" and call it what it is..A defensive war against the depredations of Islam.
Final note: The life sentence for Moussai is absolutely great, he demanded, he begged for the death sentence so he could be a "shaheed" and a symbol and hero to the Muslim world, he was denied that "honor", and has nothing but a lifetime of rot and isolation to look forward to. His attempt to get a retrial is, I suspect, not to be let off, but to be given his wish of "martyrdom".
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
Perhaps an Islamic organization the west can live with?
Another Iranian resistance organization of interest to Jihad Watchers
National Council of Resistance of Iran
Jihad Watchers will like their site and stories.
ILOVEHUGH-
Experientia docet stultos.