Iran rally leaders 'enemies of God'

[demoleft]

Source: al jazeera

A representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said opposition leaders were "enemies of God" who should be executed under the country's sharia law.

"Those who are behind the current sedition in the country ... are mohareb (enemies of God) and the law is very clear about punishment of a mohareb," Abbas Vaez-Tabasi, the representative of Khamenei, who possesses ultimate authority in Iran, said in a statement on Tuesday.

Under Iran's Islamic sharia law the sentence for "mohareb" is execution.

The statement coincided with rallies by tens of thousands of government supporters calling for opposition leaders to be punished for fomenting unrest after June's disputed presidential election, state media said.


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/2009122913830115281.html

[totodeinhere]

1. It's painfully obvious that Iran is being run by a bunch of raving lunatics.

Here's good luck and Godspeed to the brave demonstrators who are risking life and limb in the name of freedom.

[janx]

3. I am in such awe of their

tenacity and courage!

[janx]

2. Ayatollah Khamenei's jet put on standby

http://bit.ly/5E2KU9

:shrug:

[IndianaGreen]

5. Soon to join the late Shah in the after life

[janx]

7. Would Russia take him? n/t

[clear eye]

4. S__t. Is that the same as issuing a fatwah?

I hope his authority is blunted for not speaking out against the police shootings during the recent religious holiday which forbids it.

[denem]

6. WE know how this story ends.

How many must die unseating this tyrant. I use that word very little but - 'opposition leaders must be executed' puts Khamenei in 'good' company.

[Wizard777]

8. Ali Khamenei is not God. The council of the wise must remove him.

[Akoto]

9. I guess he's not cool with their "Death to Khamenei" slogan. n/t

[janx]

13. I guess not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waUHZOQ_R14

[Mari333]

10. stupid patriarchal old men with goat breath

ugh

[bloomington-lib]

11. Yeah, what would happen if they tried to do that

[eringer]

12. More than two-thirds of the Iranian population is under the age of 30

Iranian remake of "Wild in the Streets." Never trust anyone over 30.

[Gamey]

14. Religious Americans everywhere are asking, "You can do that?!"