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A homosexual Iranian man was hanged in public on Tuesday in the western city of Kermanshah on the charge of sodomy.Shahab Darvishi was charged with organizing a “corruption ring”, deliberate assault, and “lavat”, which means homosexual relationship between two men or sodomy, the official news agency IRNA reported.Darvishi was hanged in the evening in Kermanshah’s “Freedom Square” in front of hundreds of people, the report said. The Iranian regime gathers basijis in ordinary clothing to watch these horrendous acts.Under Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, homosexuality between consenting adults is a capital crime and official Iranian sources express hostility to homosexual practices. A state radio commentary on March 7, 2005 criticized gay marriages in Western countries. Ayatollah Ebrahim Amini, an influential cleric, said in his Friday-prayer sermon in Qom that gay and lesbian marriages reflect a weakness of Western culture, state television reported on July 13, 2002. Ayatollah Ali Meshkini in his Friday-prayer sermon in Qom criticized the German Green Party for being pro-homosexual, state television reported on April 29, 2000.
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An Iranian man was hanged in prison in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Thursday.The 36-year-old man, only identified by his initials M. M., was hanged at dawn on Wednesday inside Bandar Abbas’ central prison, the report said. He was accused of killing a Bangladeshi citizen in 1999.
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Tehran's hardline Islamic regime is preparing to publicly hang 11 Iranian Arabs convicted of "enmity with God" for their alleged involvement in a bombing campaign in which over 20 were killed last year, after what rights activists say were summary, secret trials. The executions are due to take place by Monday, according to Iranian media reports. The intention apparently is to disperse the hangings in several cities with largely Arab populations in order to spread fear, activists say. Campaigners insist the men are innocent and paying the price for merely hailing from the disadvantaged Arab minority. Their heavily edited "confessions" were shown on television on Monday night after months of incarceration in which they were tortured and their families threatened, the British Ahwazi Friendship Society said. The sentences were imposed after swift trials behind closed doors which human-rights groups say did not meet international standards.
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According to Reuters, a top Iranian prosecutor demanded an arrest warrant be issued for Argentinian judges and prosecutors, state radio said on Sunday after Argentina demanded the arrest of Iranian officials over the bombing of a Jewish centre.The United States called Iran and Hezbollah a "global nexus of terrorism" on Saturday and applauded the Argentinian court for seeking the arrest of the Iranian officials in connection with the 1994 bombing which killed 85 people. Iranian Prosecutor-General Qorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi wrote to Tehran’s prosecutor Saeed Mortezavi and asked him to issue arrest warrants for former Argentinian judge Juan Jose Galeano who was previously in charge of the case, the current prosecutor and other legal officials, the radio said."Despite Galeano being sentenced for taking money and creating a fake case against Iranian officials and after it became clear that Zionist circles paid him ... unfortunately the Argentinian prosecutor has made baseless claims against Iran," state radio quoted Dorri-Najafabadi as saying in his letter.Galeano was removed from the case in 2003 for corruption.Dorri-Najafabadi said he wanted Galeano and others involved in the case arrested because "making propaganda against Iran is a crime".Iran said on Saturday the Argentinian arrest warrant was part of a Zionist, U.S. plot against Iran.Argentinian federal Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral last Thursday ordered a warrant for the arrest of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight others on charges of masterminding the July 18, 1994 attack.A truck laden with explosives levelled the seven-storey Argentinian Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) building, a symbol of the country's Jewish community -- Latin America's largest. Eighty-five people were killed and more than 200 wounded.
