Iranians Angry at Officials Defending Death Practices

Death sentences pronounced by some local courts against young women have stirred the anger of Iranians inside and outside the country.

“Executions are not an important matter”, Foreign Affairs Ministry’s senior spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told journalists last week when asked about international and national reactions to the death sentence against Ms Leyla Mafi, an 18 years old girl who has a mental age of eight. ...

“We have no lesson to receive from the Westerners”, he said, accusing the West of “double standard” practice, “like their treatment of the Palestinians and the Israelis”. more

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