Iran Begins Executing Protesters In Effort To Stop Protests

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Public Executions in Iran Are Possible Bid To Disorient Protesters - The Media Line

Iran has begun to publicly execute anti-government protesters. […]

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Iran has begun to publicly execute anti-government protesters. The second public execution of a protester took place on Monday morning in the northeast of the country. However, many Iranians believe that this development is a government strategy to cause the Iranian people to stop demanding a complete change in the government and to focus instead on asking for a halt to the executions.

A.S. (a pseudonym), an Iranian activist living in Teheran, told The Media Line that there is a very strong theory widely accepted among Iranians that the government started publicly executing protesters in order to change their focus from dismantling the current government to calling on the government to make the executions stop.

He explains that, in the eyes of the government – which feels that its power is in jeopardy, “if they stop the executions maybe people will give up on changing the government.”

However, he stresses that “what the Iranian people want is the absolute removal of the regime, there is no compromise, there’s no middle ground, this is it.”

The Iranian news agency Mizan, which is associated with the country’s judiciary, reported the second execution and identified the victim as Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, who was publicly hanged from a construction crane in the city of Mashhad. This followed the first public execution of an anti-government demonstrator on Thursday when Mohsen Shekari was hanged in Teheran.

Iranians have been protesting for close to three months, since 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian Mahsa Amini died in mid-September while in the custody of the morality police, who arrested her in Tehran for not wearing her hijab properly. The government is responding forcefully to the nationwide demonstrations bringing the death toll to at least 458 people, according to a report from an Iranian human rights organization on Wednesday.

Another reason for the executions, says A.S., is to cause fear among the protesters to stop them from attending the demonstrations. However, he said: “It’s not having the effect that the government is hoping for.” “Some people will feel more scared and will be more hesitant to go and protest, but some people would eventually actually become angrier and be more insistent on protesting and striking,” he said, adding that this was the case after the first public execution on Thursday.

 

[PGen98]

Stand up to them, Iranians! Fight for your rights!

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Go Iranians!

 

[MrDawn]

I agree, fight. Don't put up with how they treat you!

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Meanwhile, the left here is trying really hard to disarm people so they can dream about doing this one day.

 

[Webster]

Meanwhile, the left here is trying really hard to disarm people so they can dream about doing this one day.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Pretty easy to understand when starting from Brandon a good number of the democrats are paid off by china. They love everything china stands for.

 

[MrDawn]

Pretty easy to understand when starting from Brandon a good number of the democrats are paid off by china. They love everything china stands for.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

So, when you're having a hard time in your country, for whatever reason (unless of course it's worse than), just remember that Iran is killing people in the public for protesting against their flawed government system. They are a country that will throw rocks at a woman until she is deceased for minor crimes and imprison men for worse unless of course you speak up against their corruption.

Of course they executed people who murdered. But they murdered people who murder for way less crimes.

I hope the people overthrow their government and something better comes in. Sadly, it will likely be Civil War because different groups will want control.

The Taliban is pretty bad. So is ISIS/ISIL but they kill each other for power. Two bad groups that are threat to democratic nations killing each other for power.

I don't really do these politically driven posts but I think it's important for all of us to watch.

 

[~ True Legend ~]

Oh no

Iran's morality police to resume headscarf patrols

The controversial police unit enforces Iran's strict dress code and has been accused of brutality.

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