These “experts” either don’t know or don’t care that Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, said in November that it was a “misunderstanding” to think that Iran was “stepping back from goals and values of the Islamic regime.” In reality, he said, Iran was simply engaged in “an artistic maneuver and the use of different tactics to reach different goals and ideals of the Islamic regime.” And so now these vaunted “experts” are shocked that Iran is turning out to be insincere. But not to have taken Rouhani at his word would have been “Islamophobic.”
“Surge in Executions Worries Rights Experts,” by Nick Cumming-Brucejan for the New York Times, January 22:
United Nations human rights experts called on Wednesday for an urgent halt to a surge in executions in Iran in recent weeks, observing that the more moderate tone adopted on human rights since President Hassan Rouhani’s election last year has yet to yield any moderation in the country’s punitive practices. Iran reportedly hanged 40 people in the first two weeks of January, 33 of them in the last week, Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations expert monitoring human rights in Iran, and Christof Heyns, the organization’s expert dealing with summary executions, said in a joint statement released in Geneva. The hangings carried out by Iran since the start of the year follow the execution of 625 people, including 28 women, and a number of political detainees in 2013, an increase of more than 100 over the number of recorded executions the previous year, Mr. Shaheed said.
Iran, engaged in a long-running and violent battle with highly organized and often heavily armed narcotics traffickers, executed prisoners mainly for drug offenses and some for crimes against national security, the experts noted. However, these offenses do not meet the threshold for the application of the death penalty set by international law, which says it should be limited only to the most serious crimes, meaning intentional killings, Mr. Heyns said. The high rate of executions in Iran, second only to China in the number of people it puts to death, is in sharp contrast to the signs of political moderation that followed Mr. Rouhani’s inauguration in August.

Bettina says
If Iran’s number of executions is on the heels of China’s, then Iran is the master executioner of the world per capita.
Champ says
“And so now these vaunted ‘experts’ are shocked that Iran is turning out to be insincere.” — headline
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muslims lie: never trust a muslim.
GWhizz says
I would probably be a heroin addict too if my only fun in life was to bang my head on the ground 5 times a day groveling to god that demands that I hate 2/3 ‘s of mankind.
mortimer says
These are mainly political killings of opponents, then they kill minorities, the Zoroastrians, Christians, Bahai’is.
Reza Aslan is a conscienceless coward for not speaking out against the human rights violations. Anyone taken in by the kindness of the American people (as Aslan was) OWES THE WORLD to speak out against injustice like this.
Reza is scum.
Jay Boo says
A PILLAR & BEAM
A pillar of Islamic faith supports deception
Within the golden beam of sunlight
against sweat beads reflection
Its circle tightens ever after now
Revealed in sunlight this beams intention
Between the pillar and a rope stretching
Regime pretending justice then and now
NEVER FORGET
“Satanic Semantic Verses”
Iran’s regime, it’s not about what they say;
it’s always about what they mean.
ISLAM DISEASE in PERSIA
The Regime’s “Weaponized” Social Disease infects each FACE with pride.
When their HEARTS fill with wicked intentions their TONGUES swell with evil lies.
In the final stage their BRAINS are consumed by self-delusion and their HANDS spill innocent blood.
Yet, a new world waits, beyond this disease’s reach, beyond its ugly schemes;
simply MARK THE BEAST for the world to see and reveal its inherent misdeeds.
Salah says
Public hanging in Iran (graphic)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-public-hanging-in-iran-pendaisons.html
mariam rove says
last month alone they killed 31 people.m
Bettina says
Where’ve you been, Miriam? We missed you 🙂
JamesonRocks says
Interesting how the people in the background of the picture look like everyday regular folks. Just another normal day at the park. Pretty scary…
gravenimage says
UN human rights “experts” shocked that Rouhani’s “moderate” tone hasn’t led to moderation in execution rate
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These same witless tools are going shocked when they find that Iran is still working on nuclear weapons, as well…
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These “experts” either don’t know or don’t care that Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, said in November that it was a “misunderstanding” to think that Iran was “stepping back from goals and values of the Islamic regime.”
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Yup—only hopeful dhimmis believe that this is about anything beyond Iran getting us to back off sanctions.
Many Westerners are so hopeful over this that Iran doesn’t even have to lie to us—they can promise us *nothing*, and we’ll still interpret it favorably. What fools these dhimmis be!
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“Surge in Executions Worries Rights Experts”
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This is something Islam has been from the days of the “Prophet”—when Muhammed made his famous treaty with the Meccans, he used the time to consolidate his power and wipe out his other enemies.
It is just the same with Iran—using this period to liquidate a large number of their “enemies” at home.