Update on the Arrest of Judge Moghaddas's Assassination Suspects

Shahram Kholdi, S'CAN-IRANIC:

A few hardliner websites, whose credibility cannot be verified and cite their "informed sources", report that the assassins of Judge Moghaddas were two brothers. One of the brothers is currently under arrest (when, where, and by whom, they do not clarify). READ MORE

However, the most interesting of such reports is that of Baztab News (a website close to the former commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohsen Rezayi). Baztab reports that assassin of Judge Moghaddas is an "armed robber", who was sentenced to death by Judge Moghaddas, however managed to escape the prison before his execution!

Baztab reports that the assassin is still at large! I would like to remind my readers that the assassin according to the contradictory statements of Iranian judicial and police authorities had not covered his face! If we trust Baztab's report, which I certainly caution you not to, Judge Moghaddas's assassination and the ensuing investigations are beginning to look like a tragic farce in their own right.

A convict manages to escape prison (which prison we do not know), and relative to his professionalism successfully guns down one of the most notorious judges of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The convict, of whom many pictures must be available, is still at large, while his brother is under arrest.

If, and this is a big if, the story is the same way that Baztab reports it, then perhaps, the intelligence and judicial authorities should be more fearful of convicted criminals and armed robbers than people like Akbar Ganji. In all likelihood, it seems armed criminals could be more of a threat to the Islamic Republic of Iran, than unarmed human rights and political activists!