“Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
“Iran Arrests Famous Actress Who Called Execution ‘Disgrace To Humanity,’” by Brian Bushard, Forbes, December 17, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Iranian authorities have arrested actress Taraneh Alidoosti, the star of the 2016 Oscar-Award-winning film “The Salesman,” on charges of spreading falsehoods after she posted on Instagram that the country’s recent execution of Mohsen Shekari was a “disgrace to humanity.”
Iranian state media IRNA said Alidoosti was detained because she failed to provide “documentation in line with her claims,” one week after she expressed solidarity in an Instagram post with a man executed in recent anti-government protests, multiple outlets reported Saturday.
In the post, she criticized the execution of Shekari, who officials claimed blocked a street and attacked a security official with a machete (charges his family disputes).
It’s the latest high-profile case of the Iranian government’s crackdown on protesters, with Amir Nasr-Azadani, a former professional soccer player, facing a possible death sentence for participating in what Iranian police claim was a group that killed a police colonel (Fifpro, soccer’s player’s union strongly condemned the arrest).
Last week, Iranian officials executed a second person, Majidreza Rahnavard, who authorities claim stabbed members of Iran’s paramilitary group, the Basij Resistance Force, but whose trial was condemned by human rights observes as based on “coerced confessions, after a grossly unfair process”; his body was hung from a crane in an apparent warning to protesters.
Alidoosti, meanwhile, had been using social media as a form of protest, posting a photo of herself on Instagram last month holding a piece of paper that read: “Woman, Life Freedom.”
In the photo, Alidoosti was not wearing a hijab, which are required by law for women in Iran—an act of apparent solidarity with Iranian women who have been protesting for months against the country’s strict moral police….
tim gallagher says
You have to admire all these Iranians who speak up against the evil, totally barbaric regime there. Everything about that regime of knuckle draggers is a “disgrace to civilised humanity” in every way. I hope nothing terrible happens to this woman. I guess it is not going to happen, but it would be such a great thing for all of humanity if the Iranian regime fell apart and islam was kicked out of that country for good.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
Those murderous Islamic bastards in power in Iran , they are evil.
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran arrested famous actress after she said execution of protester was ‘disgrace to humanity’
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Thus proving her right. But pious Muslim thugs don’t care–all they want is to impose the horrors of Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
That’s tyrants in power in Iran to have some despicable slanderous gall to say that terrible thing about her. They have no room to talk , for the awful and horrendously horrible ways they treat the Irian people shows that those Islamic SOB’s in power in that Sharia based tyranny of Iran are the actual , real , “disgrace to humanity.”