Yoohoooo….Obama?
Iran on Thursday executed two men accused of involvement in an armed anti-government group, as the public prosecutor announced that new death sentences have been issued against opposition activists involved in protests over June’s disputed presidential election.
The two men, who were hanged before dawn Tuesday, did not appear to be connected to the postelection protests — at least one of them was arrested before the election, according to his lawyer.
But state media depicted the two as part of the protest movement, a sign of how the government has lumped together many of its enemies with the political opposition amid its postelection crackdown. The media’s depiction of the executions may aim to intimidate the opposition ahead of new street demonstrations expected in February.
In a further move likely aimed at cowing protesters, Tehran’s prosecutor announced that five people have been sentenced to death for involvement in the most recent major demonstrations, on Dec. 27. That day saw the worst violence of postelection crackdown, with at least eight people killed in clashes between police and protesters and hundreds arrested.
The new verdicts raise to nine the number of people sentenced to death for involvement in protests, said the prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi.
The two men who were executed, Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour, were convicted by a Revolutionary Court of belonging to “counterrevolutionary and monarchist groups,” plotting to overthrow “the Islamic establishment” and planning assassinations and bombings, Dowlatabadi told state TV.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584126,00.html
The brutal crackdown on Mahmoud’s opponents isn’t getting much coverage in the MSM. Come to think of it, that’s another subject THE ONE avoided in his State of the Union speech.