Iranian Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For Reformists Involved In Freedom Revolt

You know, when Nancy Pelosi makes references to American protesters as "nazis" it may just send a chill down the spine of some U.S. citizens when one looks at how a tyrannical government deals with dissent. From the article at Times Online, we see how Iranian prosecutors, in a mass trial being held to decide the fate of those charged with orchestrating the pro-democracy revolt this year, are seeking the death penalty for such dissent.

Here's a bit from the article:

Iranian prosecutors called for the death penalty in a mass trial of some of the country’s leading reformists, including six former ministers, who stand accused of fomenting riots in the wake of June’s disputed presidential elections.
The prosecution said that the men, including a key instigator of Iran’s reformist movement, had been plotting to topple the Islamic regime. It called the huge street demonstrations against alleged electoral fraud an attempt to stage a “soft coup” against the government.
Reformist critics denounced the proceedings as a “show trial”. It was the fourth mass trial so far in what opponents of the theocratic regime see as a concerted attempt to uproot all moderate opposition to the hardline leadership of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

And, if you don't think this call for the death penalty is real, check out the "confession" from one of the top accused and tell me this guy doesn't see his hanging from a crane in his near future:

Among the first of the accused to appear was Saeed Hajjarian, a former deputy intelligence minister under Mr Khatami who is seen as the architect of the pro-democracy movement. The wheelchair-bound defendant, paralyzed after being shot in the head in a failed assassination attempt nine years ago, was carried into the Revolutionary Court by two attendants.
Unable to speak clearly because of his injuries, Mr Haijarian asked another defendant to read out his “confession” for him. “I’ve committed grave mistakes by offering incorrect analysis during the election ... I apologize to the dear Iranian nation because of my incorrect analyses that was the basis for many wrong actions,” the text read, according to the state news agency IRNA.
Mr Haijarian went even further, also renouncing own writings from the past 10 years, which he said “contradict the path of the Imam,” a reference to the founding father of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He said his ideas had led his party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front, “astray, particularly during the election.” Despite his extended act of penitence and his announcement that he was resigning from his party, the prosecutor called for the “maximum punishment,” which in this case is expected to be the death penalty.

This is exactly how the so-called prophet of islam, Mohammed, would have dealt with dissenters in his midst. It's ironic how the Persians have come full circle from their submission to islam to their full adherence to the terror of the fake religion. And the world is seeing first hand the way that islam and the tyrannical political system of a caliphate deals with the inherent freedoms and liberties of human beings.

Iran calls for death penalty on reformists in dock

Iranian prosecutors called for the death penalty in a mass trial of some of the country’s leading reformists, including six former ministers, who stand accused of fomenting riots in the wake of June’s disputed presidential elections.
The prosecution said that the men, including a key instigator of Iran’s reformist movement, had been plotting to topple the Islamic regime. It called the huge street demonstrations against alleged electoral fraud an attempt to stage a “soft coup” against the government.
Reformist critics denounced the proceedings as a “show trial”. It was the fourth mass trial so far in what opponents of the theocratic regime see as a concerted attempt to uproot all moderate opposition to the hardline leadership of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.
Many of the defendants had held senior positions under the former moderate president Mohammed Khatami, who ruled the country from 1997 to 2005, and who backed the opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, in his run for president this summer.

The defendants included a one-time deputy interior minister, Mostafa Tajzadeh, the ex-deputy foreign minister Mohsen Aminzadeh and former government spokesman Abdollah Ramezanzadeh. Also in the dock in the closed-door session were a newspaper editor and Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American scholar.
Among the first of the accused to appear was Saeed Hajjarian, a former deputy intelligence minister under Mr Khatami who is seen as the architect of the pro-democracy movement. The wheelchair-bound defendant, paralyzed after being shot in the head in a failed assassination attempt nine years ago, was carried into the Revolutionary Court by two attendants.
Unable to speak clearly because of his injuries, Mr Haijarian asked another defendant to read out his “confession” for him. “I’ve committed grave mistakes by offering incorrect analysis during the election ... I apologize to the dear Iranian nation because of my incorrect analyses that was the basis for many wrong actions,” the text read, according to the state news agency IRNA.
Mr Haijarian went even further, also renouncing own writings from the past 10 years, which he said “contradict the path of the Imam,” a reference to the founding father of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He said his ideas had led his party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front, “astray, particularly during the election.” Despite his extended act of penitence and his announcement that he was resigning from his party, the prosecutor called for the “maximum punishment,” which in this case is expected to be the death penalty.
“He acted against national security, cast doubt on the election result, spread propaganda against the regime and insulted regime officials, including the Supreme Leader,” the prosecution charged.
Mr Mousavi, whose arrest has also been called for by hardliners within the regime, has accused the Iranian authorities of torturing detainees into making false confessions. Other reformist leaders have also accused prison authorities of raping female demonstrators rounded up in mass arrests during the huge street protests.
Officials said yesterday that a parliamentary committee looking into the post-election disturbances was investigating a rumoured “mass burial” in a Tehran cemetery of people killed in the protests. A reformist website had reported dozens of people being buried in unmarked graves a month after the polls. Opponents of the regime have said as many as 69 people were killed, although the government put the number at 26.
Iran has accused foreign powers, mainly Britain and the United States, of trying to whip up protests against the elections in which Mr Ahmedinejad secured another four-year term.
The Revolutionary Courts have already processed more than 100 prisoners, including a former vice president, a French teaching assistant and two Iranians working for the British and French embassies. Sentences on the accused have yet to be passed.