Iran: Hassan Rouhani heads to UN with 23 executions in 4 days

                            

 Just in the past four days and on the eve of Mullah Rouhani’s participation at United Nations General Assembly, mullahs’ regime has hanged 23 prisoners in prisons of Zahedan, Yazd, Tonekabon and the Gohardasht prison. Hence, after the June 14 sham presidential election, number of executions announced by regime’s media or disclosed otherwise stands at 173.

On Saturday, September 21, nine prisoners were hanged in two group executions in prisons of Zahedan and Qazvin. Sunni compatriots Ahmad Issa Zehi, Rashid Soufian, Khaled Reigei, Hamidreza Karimi and Ghaffar Nourzehei were hanged in Zahedan prison. To bar dissemination of this atrocity, the clerical regime cut off all communications of this prison with the outside world two days in advance. On this same day, four more prisoners were executed in Qazvin.

At dawn of Thursday, September 19, eight prisoners, including three women, were hanged in Yazd’s central prison. On this same day, two prisoners were executed in Tonekabon. One prisoner was hanged in public (Mehr news agency, affiliated with Ministry of Intelligence - September 19). Additionally, on September 18, at least four prisoners were executed in Gohardasht prison.

Thousands of prisoners, including 3000 in Qezelhessar prison in Karaj, are on the death row. To facilitate mass executions, mullahs’ regime has installed stages where it can concurrently execute 24 and every week it covertly hangs a number of prisoners.

Meanwhile, Mullahs’ supreme tribunal has confirmed death sentences of four Kurdish compatriots Jamshid Dehghani, his younger brother Jahangir Dehghani, Hamed Ahmadi and Kamal Molaei and these four prisoners may be executed at any time.

The cycle of torture and execution is essential to the survival of religious fascism ruling Iran and as long as this regime is in power, this ominous cycle will demand its victims every day and hour from the Iranian people and in particular its youth. In such conditions and while scores of Iranian youth, students, laborers and families of PMOI and Ashrafis are in regime’s prisons, torture chambers, and safe houses, releasing sixteen prisoners that most of them had almost finished their prison terms and some were even released conditionally, will hardly deceive anyone.