Iran defends finger chopping judge

Red States:
Friday, The United States Treasury Department released 14 new names of Iranian individuals and entities to be sanctioned.

The most controversial among those 14 is the head of the barbaric Iranian judiciary, Sadeq Amoli Larijani. He’s been singled out over leading a justice system that oversees “the execution of individuals who were juveniles at the time of their crime; and the torture or cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment or punishment of prisoners of Iran, including amputations”, according to US officials.

Not an exaggeration in the slightest, 4 years ago the Iranian government purchased machines to cut the fingers off of thieves and they used it in October in Mashhad where the Iranian protests started on December 28th, 2017. This is the complete opposite direction that Larijani promised to go in when he took his position in 2009, a position the West hoped to be reasonedwith. But no dice — this is who they are. This is what the regime is about and Larijani has been at the center of the regime since the early 1980’s.

He married a prominent cleric’s daughter and shot up the ranks of the Iranian Revolution Guard Council (IRGC). At the age of 21, Sadeq Larijani was giving lectures to the IRGC on religion and at Mashhad Razavi University. Yes, Mashhad, the pious city where the Iranian protests began.

Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif issued a statement saying Iran would retaliate against the sanctions placed on Larijani. That’s not surprising, of course the people dependent on the Iranian regime’s power structure to maintain their own personal power and become wealthy defend the the guy who legally justifies the means by which the become wealth. What will be shocking is how many Western pundits and analysts defend the same corrupt power structure for the sake of nuclear deal that seems to be doing little to constrain or restrain the Iranian regime from destabilizing its neighbor to gain regional hegemony.
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He appears to be as ruthless as other leaders in this regime of genocidal Islamic religious bigots.  I think it should be hard to defend a guy who specializes in cruel and unusual punishment.

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