Iran will impress the world today with a demonstration of its technical abilities by hanging 30 people for a variety of crimes from drug possession to simple felonies, including disturbing public safety and security, being a public nuisance while drunk and being involved in illegal relationships. Iran is second only to China in its rate of execution. China currently has the lead with 470 last year to Iran’s 317. This will, however, make a bent in the deficit.
Iran recently announced its plans to second nine people for adultery. Click here.
Update: Iran has carried out the sentence, here tough CNN is reporting 29 confirmed hangings.
Iran often uses cranes to hang people. This includes the recent hanging of a 16-year-old girl for having sex out of weblock, click here. After the judge was criticized internationally for his death sentence of Atefeh Rajabi as a violation of international legal principles against executing minors, he personally put the noose around her neck and signals for the crane to be raised. Her death was defended as necessary under Sharia law and Islamic traditions in Iran.
For the full story, click here.
Barry Obama: “Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.”
Barry Obama: “Iran, they spend 1/100th of what we spend on the military. If Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn’t stand a chance.”
Barry Obama: “I didn’t visit the wounded in Germany because my campaign staff could not come along so I didn’t want it to appear political.” SAY WHAT???????????????????
Yep, Iran is going to execute – probably already has done so at the time of this comment – 30 CRIMINALS, people who violated Iranian laws that carry the death penalty as punishment. Oh how people moan about it and wring their hands – or, like Martha use it as a springboard to rant about their hated political rivals. Nothing will be done about it though.
Different nations have different laws. Unless the world is ready to enforce a single legal standard at the expense of all national sovereignty, this sort of thing will continue; it’s the catch-22 of multiculturalism.
Of course, at a practical level Iran is safe from repercussions. In the mind of a lot of the UN it seems that to side against Iran is to side with Israel. That’s not something the UN is willing to do.
First of all, who rights these dumb articles? I notice there is one article questioning the Jewish state’s behavior and soooo many about the conduct of Muslim states. Also, it was poorly researched or is deliberate propaganda. The executed included murders and drug traffickers.
Secondly, how did this turn into a story about Obama? It could have just as easily been a story about the US, as if the US didn’t overthrow the DEMOCRATIC government of Iran to begin with, to install the Shah, maybe Iran would be like Turkey instead of like how Iraq is headed.
BTW, if the US ever wanted to make Turkey or any Muslim country into an Islamic state, just go over there, bomb the hell out of that country and call for “regime change”.
zakimar:
There are sooooooo many articles about the conduct of Muslim states because the CONDUCT OF MUSLIM STATES IS SOOOOOOOO ATROCIOUS!
zakimar has an excuse for everything that happens in the middle east: its the United States FAULT!
zakimar, why don’t you try a little inflection on just what it is about those countries that cause such instability, hatred, anger, and power struggles….what do all those nations in the middle east have in common? They had a “prophet” form a new religion around 1300 Ad.
zakimar, maybe you have a good idea. Drop bombs on the region. Sure would make the world safer, eh?
I think pretty much the entire world, with the exception of the US and Israel (of course) agrees that the US is the biggest threat to peace. Do some reading of non-Zionist Jew controlled media and you’ll see the international polls supporting the above.
And to your last point, how would you feel about starting with Israel?
martha h,
First of all, only Sen. Obama’s friends get to call him Barry. You are not one of those lucky people to be called friends of Barack Obama. Secondly, I think the only difference between Iran and the United States when it comes to executions is the methods used. How many hundered did George W. execute as Governor of Texas?(Answer below) How many people has Texas executed? In 2007 Texas killed 26 people by way of execution. 2008 has been a slow year with only 3, but I am sure they will catch up. Bush presided over the exectuons of 152 souls! In five years. He did have help, though. Alberto Gonzalez helped him sort through the clemency petitions. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bushs-lethal-legacy-more-executions-461610.html
Since 1976 1,114 people have been executed in the U.S. 408 of those were killed in Texas alone.http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=186
I hope we aren’t killing people for having premarital sex, but where was that case, Georgia maybe, where the teenager had oral sex with another teenager and he was doing serious time in jail and labeled a sex offender. We aren’t too far off from our friends in Iran when it comes to killing our own.
Uhh, before that high horse of yours rears up and tosses you on your ass Martha, allow me to point out that Texass alone has exectued 406 US Citizens since reinstatment. Thats FOUR HUNDRED AND SIX people EXECUTED, in TEXASS.
Not to mention that Virginia has the nations busiest death chamber, having executed more than 100 since it was turned back on.
Or for that matter, than the US has MORE of its citizens in PRISON, than does IRAN.
That’s right Berlin Betty.
We have MORE of our population in prison, than does Iran.
Chew on that for a while, BB.
Since you’re no doubt making your case for war with Iran, perhaps first we should, based on your criteria, invade ourselves?
BTW, everyone knows your a hateful, racist, Zionist (I know that’s redundant) Jew, but at least try to make your lies believable. The most noteworthy Muslim from “1300 Ad” was neither a Prophet nor did he form a new religion. Tamerlane was a descendent of Genghis Khan who lived between 1336 and 1405 AD. And in case you were referring to the Prophet Mohammed, he was born in 570 AD. So if you’re so ignorant of such a simple fact (off by 1438 years) I may have misjudged you. You are not a bigot, you’re just stupid.
martha h
1, July 27, 2008 at 11:40 am
There are sooooooo many articles about the conduct of Muslim states because the CONDUCT OF MUSLIM STATES IS SOOOOOOOO ATROCIOUS
So by that same benchmark, we are to assume you believe the reason there are soooooo many articles about the conduct of the United States, is because the conduct of the United States is “SOOOOOOOO ATROCIOUS”?
Oh I’m sorry Martha. Did I break your concentration?
If so, then don’t bother reading the rest of this comment unless you really want a head implosion.
martha h
1, July 27, 2008 at 8:18 am
Barry Obama: “I didn’t visit the wounded in Germany because my campaign staff could not come along so I didn’t want it to appear political.” SAY WHAT???????????????????
Say what, is right.
Because unfortunately BARACK Obama, didn’t say that. (I’m still trying to figure out the perceived slant in calling him “Barry”).
He did cut short his visit, and one of his campaign advisors did release the following statement.
“We learned from the Pentagon last night that the visit would be viewed instead as a campaign event.
Senator Obama did not want to have a trip to see our wounded warriors perveived as a campaign event when his visit was to show his appreciation for our troops and decided instead not to go.”
The Pentagon also released this statement.
We told him he could visit Landstuhl (Regional Medical Center in western Germany) with his Senate staff, but not with his campaign staff (Lt. Col. Elizabeth Hibner)
So once again Martha you display your comfort with deception and misinformation as your “modus operandi”, making it hard to extrapolate any valid points from your collection of falsehoods and half truths.
Try presenting some actual quotes, facts and opinions. If you want to criticize Obama for not visiting the soldiers in Germany, then do so. But don’t invent statements worded your way, then put them in quotations as if he said them, then profess outrage at the statement you just fabricated.
We call those “straw arguments”, and they’re nothing more than the refuge of the untenable position.
How about RESPECTING the LIBERTY of others to choose their OWN values? INCLUDING those whose values we find repugnant.
What do we seek to be, Teachers or Preachers?
I’m telling you, we’ve all misjudged her. She may just be lying to make a lunatic’s point, but most likely she can’t read properly or is plain stupid. Let’s face it zakimar and zakimer, could be a mistake; Barak and Barry, could be a reading deficit; 570 AD and 1300 AD, just plain stupid.
RESPECTING LIBERTY must stop when one’s values include genocide, slavery, rape, Zionism and Apartheid.
And how many do we put to death each year? Come on, tell me something new. The then Gov of Texas, Bushman, how many did he see die in his stewardship? What else toots?
Wow, Iran is awful!! What a violation of human rights! Wait. How are they different than us? How is China different than us? Is it because our executions aren’t public? While I’m against capital punishment, if you’re going to do it as a deterrent, I think it would be more effective if it were public. And if you were going to give someone the death penalty, it might be a good idea to actually give them the death penalty… that may be a deterrent, too. Personally, I think keeping them in cages is less humane and more of a punishment, but not a deterrent.
But, back to our self-righteous outrage… MY GOD, LOOK AT IRAN! THOSE EVILDOERS!!!!!!
jane; Of course Iran is worse than the US. Even though the story neglected to mention that those being executed were murderers and drug traffickers, I can be pretty sure they weren’t some minority as blacks and Latinos make up a vast majority of the prison population in the US. And I bet none of those executed were RETARDED, as Bush in Texas was fond of doing. So it’s worse because there is NO racism involved. Every good American knows it’s ok to kill Blacks, Natives, Latinos and let’s not forget the poor and hookers.
This is yet another effort of the Zionist Jew controlled media and the neo-cons to sell their war against Iran. Remember how Iraqi soldiers were killing babies to steal incubators?
zakimer:
looks like there are three surrenderists here for the terrorists. the rest of America will fight.
July 27, 2008
Another day in Arafatistan
An Israeli operation in Hebron has resulted in the death of the terrorist mastermind of the suicide attack on Dimona earlier this year. Carl in Israel has posted a good round-up. The Jerusalem Post reports:
The IDF said that in a joint Border Police and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) operation the forces surrounded a house where 25-year-old Shihab Na’atsha, a Hamas explosives engineer, was hiding. The IDF said Na’atsha had assembled the bomb belt used in the Dimona attack on February 4 that killed 73-year-old Lubov Razdolskaya and wounded 40 other people….
Troops surrounded the house in Hebron early Sunday morning and exchanged fire with Na’atsha, calling on him to exit the building. Once he refused to surrender and after hours of gunfire, the IDF bulldozed the house. His body was later removed from the rubble.
The IDF added that during the heavy exchanges of fire, troops heard explosions from inside the house, presumably from bombs stored inside. Two additional terror suspects were apprehended during the operation.
Na’atsha and his ammo dump somehow went undetected by the “security forces” of the Palestinian Authority, only to be discovered by Israelis in an operation of the kind that Secretary Rice finds to visit indignity on Palestinian Arabs.
Go GET ‘EM Israel!
Did the same person that told you that Islam had a Prophet in 1300 AD tell you about the story above, and was Santa Claus driving the bulldozer?
martha h
1, July 27, 2008 at 10:18 pm
looks like there are three surrenderists here for the terrorists. the rest of America will fight.
That’s funny stuff.
You make that up yourself or does that one come on a cue card?
Jane,
The difference is Iran has Oil.
Yes, they have oil & they’re a Muslim nation. Goodness knows, unless you are a Christian nation, you are evil! And since 9/11 we ALL know (especially Martha, right dear?) how awful those Muslims are. But a Christian country? Sure, we might have dropped some 40,000 bombs in Iraq & a couple thousand daisy-cutters in Afghanistan, but we didn’t “target” any innocent people… that’s what makes us SO right! Good thing ‘ol Bushie is leading this Crusader initiative, otherwise, it might have never happened.
Martha, your terrorist rhetoric? typical.