Iran cleric says “rioters” should be executed

Reuters
Friday, June 26, 2009

A hardline Iranian cleric called on Friday for the execution of leading “rioters” to teach a lesson to the thousands who have protested against the June 12 presidential election result.

“I want the judiciary to … punish leading rioters firmly and without showing any mercy to teach everyone a lesson,” Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Tehran University.

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Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts, said the judiciary should charge the leading “rioters” as being “mohareb” or one who wages war against God.

“They should be punished ruthlessly and savagely,” he said. Under Iran’s Islamic law, punishment for people convicted as “mohareb” is execution.

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