Perpetrators of Unrest Should Be Executed Within 5 to 10 Days

Mostafa Mir-Salim, head of the central council of the Islamic Coalition Party, made a peculiar statement last week, saying: “The perpetrators of unrest should be executed within 5 to 10 days.”

A man who just a few months ago (in June) spoke to the media with a distressed face about the arrest and imprisonment of his son on security charges (cooperation with the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization), speaking helplessly about his son’s physical and psychological suffering and being deceived, today speaks from a great distance about the time between the arrest of the perpetrators of unrest and their execution.

According to Fararu News, Seyyed Mostafa Mir-Salim announced his request that those arrested during the unrest should be executed 5 or 10 days after their arrest.

It seems the minister of guidance in Hashemi Rafsanjani’s second administration and the official nominee of the Islamic Coalition Party in the 1996 presidential election has forgotten that he should first put a needle in himself before sewing with a sack needle for others! It seems he has become so absorbed in the country’s unrest that he demands the execution of others faster than any legal trial; but about his own son, he says: he was only deceived. These hypocrites deceived him! Mir-Salim said to his son: In my opinion, imprisonment is not an appropriate punishment for someone in such weak circumstances, but apparently for other people’s sons the matter is 180 degrees different (death is good for the neighbor).

That others should be quickly executed, but your son was only deceived, reminds us of a cleric’s tale who said from the pulpit: “If a child damaged the carpet at home, you should cut that piece of carpet. When he came home, he found that his wife had cut a piece of the carpet! He became very upset and shouted at his wife. His wife said: Why are you shouting? You said so yourself! The cleric looked at his wife and child and said: I said this to the people, not to ourselves!!”

This tale is a story that is very common among Iranian government officials. Employees in various sectors who easily comment on taking people’s lives, or suggest to some people having free rein with firearms in front of protesting people.

Mr. Mir-Salim! In your opinion:

What is the punishment for the person who orders the destruction of a Ukrainian airplane?

What is the punishment for the person who commits abuse under the pretext of teaching the Quran to children?

What is the punishment for the person who orders the elimination of 1700 dogs?

Who will answer the tears of families whose loved ones you took with these sentences?

Who will answer the cries of Gohar Eshghi (mother of Sattar Beheshti)?

What is the punishment for the person who killed Neda Agha-Soltan on the street with a bullet in 2009?

Once you manage to answer only these 6 questions, you have the right to speak about the young people of this land. You do not even consider imprisonment appropriate for your own son, but for the men and women of this border and soil who seek freedom, you demand the sentence of execution?

We agree with Parviz Parastui:

Thank God you are not the head of the judiciary. Because if you held such a position, you would have surely executed half of today’s young people in Iran by now.

You and your ilk must certainly be accountable for the blood of every single young person of this land.

 God’s word says:

Therefore, O man who judges! Whoever you are, you have no excuse, because by what you judge another, you pronounce judgment on yourself; for you who judge do the same things. (Romans Chapter 2 Verse 1)