It was just yesterday when Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, used the protests in Ferguson to lecture the United States on racial discrimination and justice.
If US govt has a power, then it should use it to solve its own problems& put an end to racial discrimination. #Ferguson #Syria #Iraq
4/13/94— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) September 28, 2014
Khamenei today posted a YouTube video to prove his point, but somehow overlooked the impending execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari, who is scheduled to be hanged tomorrow for killing her rapist in self-defense.
Shocking that an Iranian woman could be hanged tomorrow for killing her rapist in self-defence. http://t.co/pW9R6KSjjn
— Canada and Iran (@CanadaIran) September 29, 2014
@CanadaIran @HonJohnBaird they have no rights. Let's just destroy the Middle East. Case closed.
— Fran Eh (@oopsiwentglam1) September 29, 2014
The International Business Times reports:
Iran has upheld its decision to execute Rayhaneh Jabbari, charged with the murder of a man who allegedly attempted to rape her.
Jabbari, 26, spent seven years in prison and her execution by hanging could be carried out as early as tomorrow (Tuesday, 30 September), according to local reports.
Jabbari was arrested in 2007, after she had killed a member of the Iranian Intelligence Services, Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, who she said tried to rape her.
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Crimes punishable with a death sentence [in Iran] include cursing the Prophet, drug offences, murder, adultery, incest, rape, fornication, drinking alcohol, “sodomy”, homosexual sex, “being at enmity with God” (mohareb), and “corruption on earth” (mofsed fil arz).
My fellow Iranians: Gather at the #Rajai_Shahr_Prison to protest and try to prevent the execution of #ReyhanehJabbari pic.twitter.com/4qDcOd6pQN
— Reza Pahlavi (@PahlaviReza) September 29, 2014
@PahlaviReza What can we do for her? Unfortunately she is in the hands of mullas.
— – (@hamplus1) September 29, 2014
#ReyhanehJabbari is going to be executed! Her mother is in front of Rajai shahr prison!
— M Nasserchian (@SororIrani) September 29, 2014
#ReyhanehJabbari’s mother said today that prison authorities told her she would have to go to the facility to “collect the body” tomorrow PT
— Reinhard Lamsfuss (@rlamsfuss) September 29, 2014
#Iran: International call to stop execution of 26-year-old female prisoner #ReyhanehJabbari http://t.co/uMj1x3rXg8 pic.twitter.com/BSymaLcMtD
— Iran Arab Spring (@IranArabSpring) September 29, 2014
Iran's "Hanging Machine" to Execute Reyhaneh Jabbari @UN
Save #ReyhanehJabbari from being hanged @IranianWoman pic.twitter.com/3Wh8TZ2meH— PIRDHAN_BALOCH (@PIRDHAN_BALOCH) September 29, 2014
#ReyhanehJabbari 's planned execution is a political act. Please Help to stop it Now in #Iran.
— Iran.Versus.Islam (@Iran_vs_Islam) September 29, 2014
Update:
Good news from Fox News analyst Lisa Daftari:
BREAKING NEWS: Rayhaneh Jabbari Death sentence postponed: More to follow http://t.co/T7V1t81tWY pic.twitter.com/bEvTZ58qxO
— Lisa Daftari (@LisaDaftari) September 30, 2014
@LisaDaftari @Kerryepp Never lose hope – life always wins – she will walk a free woman soon
— Kevin Lobo (@Kevin_thefuture) September 30, 2014
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