By Reza ShafieeSpecial to Al Arabiya EnglishFriday, 22 June 2018
The Iranian regime showed its true color once again by executing 51-year-old Sufi,
Mohammad Reza Salas despite repeated calls from human rights groups and governments to call it off.
Salas was forced into confusion, an old tool used by the regime. A self-incrimination confusion of running over three members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Croup (IRGC) with a bus in the heat of February protests by Dervishes in Tehran. According to witnesses Salas’ lawyer cited, he was already in custody for three hours when the bus ran over the three IRGC members.
Salas’ execution brought international condemnation for the regime. Secretary of State,
Mike Pompeo tweeted: “We condemn the
#Iranregime’s execution of Mohammad Salas, a member of the long-persecuted Iranian Sufi Dervish community. We call on our partners & allies to join us in condemning his brutal & unjust execution. Iranian people deserve respect for human rights & freedoms.”
Heather Nauert, spokesperson for the US State Department said: “The application of the death penalty, without affording Mr. Salas the fair trial and appeal guarantees to which he was entitled, is a clear violation of Iran’s international human rights obligations”.
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