Group Executions in Iran
I am not sure how to start this post. Just seeing how they kill people in Iran and they justify it with Islamic law it makes me sick! It’s barbaric!
I believe that the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) government has utilized the death penalty to silence people and spread the fear in our streets and our minds! The group execution method came to Iran with Khomeini. After revolution they killed many innocent people who just didn’t agree with Islamic Republic or they were minorities! Clergies didn’t have much time so they did implement group execution.
They execute people based on Islamic law; the question is why Islam is so harsh and barbaric? Why instead of looking for the root of problems just they kill people and get rid of them? Is it just easier for government to kill people and make them silent? Or just it’s the way it is and it’s something from God? Where is the kindness? Where is compassion to people? What kind of God does order to kill his own creature?
Even if they were criminals, I am sure society is the main factor to lead people to commit criminal activity. Almost in 30 years Islamic government in IRI, with their own utopia about Islamic governance, is this their outcome? To kill people and put any remark on them? How did you treat them while they were normal human in IRI? Why did they choose this path for their own life? what was your fault? what did you do to prevent them? The government should answer to this question instead of killing these people who actually are society mistreatment victims.
I didn’t ask about human rights because I’m sure some people out there would say at that era we didn’t have human right law! It’s something belong to nowadays! But I can say the death penalty is the ultimate violation of the right to life and nobody has the right to violate this right. No god can kill his own creature with some foolish orders!
God is a word, please don’t give me any second hand god just I am tired of it.
Fariborz Shamshiri
Iranian executed”thugs”are the products of the Islamic regime
Even if these collective executed 12 people were thugs, the word “thug” in Iran would refer to a group of people who are socially and economically marginalised. They are derived from poor classes and confront all unfair aspects of the society.
Because of the high rate of unemployment, poverty, widespread illiteracy, and a lack of welfare and a social protect system; they are direct victims of such a society and spontaneously revolt against the socio-economic pressures.
Bully thugs with a religious identity can be recruited in IRI’s Security Forces or are systematically used in the organised pro-regime militias called plainclothes (lebas shakhsi) to intimidate the regime’s opponents, or beat anti-regime’s demonstrators. So, a number of IRI’s Security Forces, who now arrest “thugs”, are in fact the recruited ex-thugs. They now accuse the non-recruited thugs of violence, robbery, drugs, whereas these could be indeed applied to them too, if they were not recruited by the regime.
Some young Iranian men have been flogged for taking drugs, drinking alcohol or simply for listening to a personal walkman while walking down the street. They react in their manner to the lack of personal freedoms. The regime calls these people “thugs” too.
Urban youth in particular calls for social and political freedom. Youth is always the sector of the population which reacts most fiercely and most violently to their aspirations not being fulfilled.
Young Iranians make up an estimated 70 percent of their country’s population. More than half of the country’s population is under the age of 20. The generation born under the IRI’s reign is increasingly showing frustration with Iran’s lack of social freedoms and ongoing troubled economy.
Iran’s unemployment rate is now 15 percent (11.20 percent in 2006). Youth makes up a large proportion of the unemployed. Official figures say youth aged 15 to 19 accounts for 39 percent of the country’s active work force and the unemployment rate stands at about 34 percent among the age groups of 15 to 19 years old and at about 16 percent among the 25 to 29 years age group.
According to some statistics of 2003, about 20,000 teenagers live on the streets of Iran’s larger cities, but most of them reside in Tehran. The problem has been fuelled by poverty and aggravated by the economic crisis.
A report by the United Nations has found that Iran has the highest drug addiction rate in the world. “According to the U.N. World Drug Report for 2005, Iran has the highest proportion of opiate addicts in the world — 2.8 percent of the population over age 15”, the report said. “With a population of about 70 million and some government agencies putting the number of regular users close to 4 million, Iran has no real competition as world leader in per capita addiction to opiates, including heroin”.
The report added that a government poll had shown that almost 80 percent of Iranians believed that there was a direct link between unemployment and drug addiction. According to Iranian National Centre for Addiction Studies, 20 percent of Iran’s adult population was “somehow involved in drug abuse”.
Many Iranians describe high drug availability as evidence of a plot by the regime. “If they could create enough jobs, enough entertainment, why would people turn to drugs?”, economists say.
The IRI dreams of a total Islamic society, but people, especially young ones, do not bow to an Islamic way of life in any standard. Furthermore, social poverty, homeless tramps, high unemployment rates and the lack of social and individual freedom leads to the rise of unsolvable problems for the Iranian youth, described by an uncompetent regime as “thugs”. With these current executions, continuous human rights violations in Iran seem to enter a new phase of repression against the whole Iranian society.
Dear Jahanshah,
Thanks, it’s very informative.
If it’s anyone we should be fighting, it’s those using Islamic law to commit their own versions of fear, perversion and mental sickness..
What’s the difference between Benito Mussolini and this act of group execution and terror to own the people?
And yet, people of the rest of the world would rather look the other way than to open their mouths to say the silent truth.. If it doesn’t have their flag on it, then the hell with it.. This is truly SICK!!!
Lou K:
Sorry for delay, just I notice your comment.
Very good question, thanks. Benito Mussolini never ever silenced people with God, Prophet, and religion like Islam. He never ever brought one Allah’s verses to shutdown and kill people.
maybe you want to ask what’s the impact of using God/Allah to shutdown people and why does it make if difference with non-god fascism?
The difference is, God is the last hope for people in every circumstances. In Islamic states, at the meantime, when clergies bring these hatred verses (Allah ones which I provide you in following) actually they kill people’s last hope. When somebody doesn’t have hope, he won’t do anything to change their destiny.
For example in Quran, Repentance and Dispensation verses(123), Allah says:
“O ye who believe! fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him.”
and I say: O Allah! Who the hell are you to order killing people?
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