Iran Human Rights Head: Execution, Eye Gouging, Cutting off Hands and Feet ‘Beautiful and Necessary’
On May 1, Mohammad-Javad Larijani — head of the human rights council in Iran’s judiciary — participated in a conference where he offered his analysis regarding Iranian penal laws, which he claims are being attacked and criticized by international human rights organizations.
He said that retaliation, the cutting off of hands and feet, the removal of a “defendant’s” eye, and even stoning were a very real part of Iranian judicial law:
The problem is that these Westerners go on and on about their own laws. The interpretation of laws in Iran is based on Islam and our constitution. We have made concessions to some of the international demands, but we have our own laws and we will carry them out as interpreted.
Speaking out against the Western rule of law with regards to Iran, Larijani added:
Westerners make a mockery of the partnership between a man and a woman as a family unit by saying that two men or two women, homosexuals, can live together as life partners; so based on this analysis, in the near future a human being will be also allowed to marry a cat.
Regarding marriage, Larijani maintained:
Westerners believe that the marriage between a man and a woman is an earthly contract and, if that contract is annulled, they either pay a penalty or they are released. But when we say that we are going to have someone stoned, it is supposedly against human rights. At the same time, these Westerners do not even speak out against a woman who cheats on her husband and produces an illegitimate child.
Larijani, who had previously claimed that the sentence of stoning is much lighter than actual execution because the “defendant can actually survive,” also said:
Retaliation and punishment are beautiful and necessary things. It’s a form of protection for the individual and civil rights of the people in a society. The executioner or the person carrying out the sentence is in fact very much a defender of human rights. One can say that there is humanity in the act of retaliation.
He is head of Human Rights of Hezbollah in Iran.
since he thinks stoning and cutting off hands and feet and gouging out eyes are so great I think we should capture him and first gouge out one eye. then cut off one foot I am talking about at one week intervals. then cut off a hand. dont give the son of a bitch any crutch or any other thing to aid him in getting around.then start over with another eye. and dont let anyone help him in any way, YES I DO BELEIV IN TREATING THEM AS THEY TREAT OTHERS,
How ’bout a cup, would you let ‘im have a cup, . . . or are you just gonna have him begging with his g-damn hat—that’s just disgraceful, . . .
Iran even HAS a head of the human rights council in its “judiciary?” That’s like Hitler having a council on “German-Jewish relations,” or the Taliban having a “Council on the Greater understanding of American culture,” or Hezbollah having an “Israeli defence council,” or Pol Pot having a “Council on Western Democracy.” Just shows you can twist language to suit all sorts of purposes, even if they are for homicidal purposes. And the rest of the world is still wondering why it would be insane to allow these people to get a nuclear weapon and dominate the Middle East?
Whither reality?
The people of the West are simply going insane, trying to bridge the gap between what is obvious, and that which they are forced to accept as the ‘truth’.
When the consensus of sense has been destroyed what is intended to take its place?
I fear western liberal culture is being very competently destroyed, although, articles such as these do serve to remind us how far and fast we are slipping.
Thank you.
What would Mohammad do? It all stems from a murderous, rapist, pillager who spewed self serving chauvinistic edicts to cover the actions of his band of merry men. We in the west realize the base vile evil of Mo and how through violence and intimidation he spread his cult. We follow a loving God of peace and can’t understand how anyone could follow such a hell spawned ideology?
Well, basically in the same way we used to accept Roman and Vatican Inquisition, i guess…
While I may not agree with Iran’s methods or morals, they have a right as a sovereign nation to make their own laws and abide by them.
In other words, why do we care what they do in Iran? Don’t we have bigger fish to fry here in America?
Then why does America associate with a body, the UN, that embraces Iran and its sovereign behaviour which is the antipathy to everything America has claimed to be?
To be silent in the face of evil is to be complicit.
We care because we don’t like to see others suffer. In this case, however, there is nothing we can do. The people of Iran got themselves into this by embracing Khomeini and his beliefs. They are going to have to get themselves out. We can’t help them.
What a stupid and masochistic view. They are not sovereign to commit the most heinous crimes against humanity. In addition, they main goal with their beloved “hidden imam” is to come to the west. We must act now and get rid of this regime which is the most brutal of the brutal – off the face of this Earth and support the freedom loving Iranian people.
I have to agree.The UN itself is a joke. always has been. There is no reason we need to be a part of it. The US cannot be superman and save everyone from everything. these people for the most part do not want our freedoms and infact despise our way of life. So the most we can expect is to take a regime that we can work with a bit to one that only wants our destruction. they have to fight for their own freedom, their own way of life. If we want to make these people like us then the only realistic approach to doing that is to DESTROY THEM. yep. kill pretty much every man, woman and child over there in the middle east and make our people the ‘rulers’. I know im gonna get hate mail, but before you send it ask yourself. “is what we are doing now working?” are we any safer? is there a US style democracy piling up or are there just more radical dictatorships? are we wining hearts and minds to our way of life or are we just hastening the creation of an enemy that we will have to anhilalte before they destroy us? We are wasting, time, money, resources, and people trying to convice our enemy to ‘like us’ all it does is convince them we are weak and make them hate us even more.
Your sick on all fronts. The Iranian people are a good people and demand nothing more than a secular democracy. You in fact I quite think are a plant and are making such comments as a plant – most likely a leftist masochist pretending to be a right wing hawkish individual to advance your sick political ideology.
@ Sassan
WERE a good people.
As Zoroastrians.
NO, make that a GREAT people
under Cyrus the Great.
I think you are correct. Islamic societies do not comprehend how democracy works because their theocracies maintain social “peace” and cohesiveness through fear. Some Muslims tend to cower under the dictatorships that rule through the “religious mandates” of the Koran; however, others fervently adhere to these mandates because they wholeheartedly agree with the “religious” indoctrination that began in their childhood. Islam is a male dominated pseudo religion that aims to re-ignite its global conquest that began in the seventh century; their expansion left a trail of death and destruction as it casts its shadow over North Africa, Asia, and Europe. Their cultural and religious values are based on a primitive understanding of intercommunal relations, just as spoused and promoted by their “prophet” Mohammed. The West must get ready to fight for its way of life and the lives of its people. We must remember Islam is a socio-political system masquareding as a religion; it dictates every aspect of its followers’ lives and the lives of non-Muslims that have the misfortune of living in Islamic countries. Again, I agree with your point of view.
Great….what could possibly go wrong here…a entire country run by psychopathic murderers …..on the verge of nukes….and our Prez…..does..????…….he helps them….nothing to see here…
Do Muslims (men and women) also sanction of using teen boys as sex slaves, and also the occasional goat, sheep or donkey? Don’t candy coat those, either.
Barbarians in barbarian countries, acting barbarically.
When you believe that barbarity must be respected, you endanger civilization. Want to be a barbarian with a cellphone, go to the sjithole of your own country. If you want to come here, at least pretend to be Civilized. We can go there as tourists, like going to a somewhat dangerous zoo, and watch the quaint barbarians and their quaint habits. Then come home to the Civilized World.
While I do not condone cutting off hands and such, why is it that conservatives always focus on the barbarity of others, but never upon the barbarity of the American Government? I believe it’s all designed to hide the never-ending human rights abuses perpetrated by America. From the horrors of Abu Garib to the “sport killing” of Afghans by US soldiers that came out in the media recently (and on that point, where were the media outlets on that story? Had George Bush been in office we would have rightfully witnessed hundreds of thousands protesting in the street! But not with our current president…..hmmmm). Look at yourselves people! See what it is YOU support (water boarding, imprisonment without habeas corpus, summary execution). For all the questionable things Iran does, it PALES in comparison to the never-ending crimes of America.
Why is it that Leftists like you focus on the barbarities you allege to be sanctioned by the US government (Abu Grahib and “sport killing”? Weren’t the people who did those things tried and convicted?) while ignoring the barbarities that are, in fact, sanctioned by governments like Iran?
“I believe it’s all designed to hide the never-ending human rights abuses perpetrated by America.”
There is a difference between believing something and knowing something. How do you know that this is all designed to hide the “never-ending human right abuses perpetuated by America”?
First, I’ do not “sanction” the horrors committed by the Iranian government. But what is a few maimed Iranian citizens to the hundreds of thousands of DEAD persons at the hands of American POLICY? Why are we in Iraq?: oil. Why are we in Afghanistan?: minerals. What are Americans willing to do to get the oil and minerals?: kill thousands. Much different from a bunch of Iranian thugs who cut off a thief’s hand, isn’t it?
Just out of curiosity, where did I say that you sanctioned what Iran does? All I said was that you ignore them.
Also, is there any kind of policy document that explicitly states that, in order to get oil and minerals, the USG must kill thousands of people? And who actually did the killing, the Americans or the Islamists?
If getting oil and minerals were the point of the Afghan and Iraq wars, wouldn’t it be considerably cheaper to get oil and minerals domestically rather than spending several trillion on troops and supplies in faraway and hostile places?
Unfortunately you robots have no brains. To claim that Afghanistan is “due to minerals” or Iraq “to oil” demonstrates your lack of a brain and your easily listening to what anti-American, anti-west, and anti-humanity scumbags such as Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, and George Galloway has fed your empty brains. We have provided liberation and an opportunity for a future for millions of people who were once under the most oppressive regimes (the Taliban and Saddam Hussein) and you clearly show your lack of a brain to think for yourself. I refer you again to one of the great minds of the last century in Christopher Hitchens’ who has stood time and time again on the right side of history!
@Sassan/Spindok/Armondo (under responses to #9 Lovely Earth)
I do realize our Liberal Education system [indoctrinates] our Students on “All the [‘bad’] America has done without focusing on [all the ‘Good’] it has done throughout our History… The obvious hate and disdain for America by many on the Left reflects this….America has [Helped ] More Countries, have [Liberated] more people, Has done more [Good] then every country in the world 100 x’s over…
I have a neighbor who lived in Belgium during WWII, with tears in her eyes 65 + years later, she still remembers how the US Soldiers came to [Liberate] Belgium from Nazi Germany, September 11, 1944 [8,000 US Soldiers] [gave their lives] to [Liberate] [another country] the Belgium people are [forever grateful] and they [don’t forget]…this is just one of Many Stories where America has done [much ‘Good’ in the World]…
Sadly, @#9 LovelyEarth seems to have fallen into the Anti-American indoctrinated catagory…There is a huge problem within our Education System and what it teaches to produce such anti American sentiment from within our own country.
The Anti-American Liberals are preaching to the wrong choir… Glad to see so many folks here agree…
Just for chuckles, how about you numerically identifying exactly how many gallons of oil and tons of minerals that the U.S. has removed from Iraq and Afghanistan. I will provide you with a clue – zip, zero, none, zilch, nada, etc.
There are many complaints that one can make about the U.S. not being the perfect Republic – hell, we voted in Obama, that should be enough to make everyone sick to their stomachs. But for you to feel that you have to make up complaints as you go along is simply proof that all you do is listen to Progressive ‘talking points’ and leave positive research to others.
You need to get educated before giving such idiotic comment. The barbaric Islamic Regime has so far executed, tortured, raped and maimed hundreds of thousands of people and that is excluding the millions in Iraq war prolonged by Khomeini who was by the way installed by a moron crack head liberal President Carter.
Education and knowledge of history is key to understand the menace that is Islamism.
LovelyEarth: An excellent article that clarifies the mind set of the “pro-tyrant Left” can be found here. Very interesting how logic can be twisted. http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/new/blogs/johnson/The_Mind_of_the_ProTyrant_Left
Oh please, make your own arguments. It’s so weak to point to some far right publication and say “see, see….this proves I’m right!”. That same publication shills for far-right Israeli policy. You cannot point to something that is false to make a point. Again here’s the point that you have missed: it’s brutality to cut someone’s hand off for stealing (not so much if the crime is politically motivated), but it’s nothing compared to the utter carnage left in the wake of American aggression. Nothing at all. A drop in the bucket.
To understand where LovelyEarth is coming from you need to understand that there is a different internal logic going on here.
Her examples of US ‘horrors’ are primarily either criminal acts, acts of war, or both. Larinjani, on the other hand, is talking about acts of justice and human rights as reflecting the core values of Iranian society.
war = horror
criminal act (ie AbuGhraib and sport killing by soldiers)= horror
stoning and chopping off limbs = horror
She lumps all horrors together and asserts that the US has done more of them. Without evidence BTW. This is like the observation that the police in my community are worse than the criminals because more criminals have been shot by police than vice versa. In the case of war, the claim that the US killed more Nazis than the other way around makes the Nazis less bad than the US by such logic.
Criminal Justice system as we all should know, cannot be compared in any way to war nor to the acts of criminals. In law we have the opportunity to place our highest ideals. It is a controlled situation.
In war there is no such opportunity. At best we can get it over with as little evil as possible. As to illegal acts committed by soldiers, how is that different than any other criminal act?
It is not the volume of people killed or maimed that shocks us about Larijanis words. It is that he is talking about cherished ideals and holding them up as examples of the best his society has to offer in the realm of humanitarian justice. Nobody holds up Abu Ghraib this way – except LovelyEarth.
A Fullfilled user name… as you doctor’d the Spin right out of that ‘viewpoint’
Well said.
Logic? When a US fighter jet drops a 500 pound laser guided bomb onto a village filled with brown people somewhere in the natural “Third World”, thereby killing a few “insurgents”, as well as a dozen or so 6 year old children, it’s not injustice? Yet you’ll get all up in arms because some nut hacked off the hand of some guy who stole a bunch of fruit (probably because he doesn’t have the resources to purchase the fruit for his family)? Really? The hand issue is much more offensive than the mass bombing and killing of children? Well then, sign me up too! Let’s scream about how some poor bast$#d gets his hand cut-off, but say nothing about all the millions killed by armies of western nations.
Thought provoking post
Is it a bigger injustice if they are brown, or did you just throw that in for greater histrionic effect? What if the bomber was also brown would that be OK? Maybe we should have all brown bomb crews.
I am sure brown on brown stuff like what is happening in Syria, or Iran(they aren’t really brown but I am sure you think of them that way) should not be discussed or debated in your moral system. Only the items you consider important are worthy of attention.
I am not sure where or what the “natural” third world is either. Is there an “unnatural” third world? Since the cold war is over where is the second world? I think that since the communists are not really around the third should be promoted to second. Anyway the implication is that if we bombed Sweden it would be OK.
Actually you are right. My mistake for referring to your thought process as “logic”.
You truly are a sick masochist to compare the actions of America and our brave young troops to the tyrannical – world ending fanatics – that have occupied and destroyed the once great nation of Iran. You have no shame and should pack your lovely bags and move to the Islamic nation of your choice – presumably Iran and see how you enjoy it – you leftist masochists make me sick – you should learn from the likes of the great Christopher Hitchens’
I said nothing of our troops. You miss the point. Why are you so offended by a man having his hand hacked off somewhere in Iran, but you’re not concerned about a few, hmmm, hundred thousand brown people getting blown to bits by American bombers and Apaches? Look at the poor Palestinians! They get robbed of their land and now every time they stand up for themselves, American supplied helicopters whack a few hundred kids. Great, you’re great…………..This is why I only eat organic produce. The pesticide has clearly rotted someone’s brain.
You know, LovelyEarth, if it were just the handcutting and eye-gouging, you could sort of make an argument that it’s just one thing. But this is a part of a pattern of behavior that is explicitly sanctioned by the Iranian government. Didn’t you see the video of Neda Agha-Soltan? Didn’t you see “The Stoning of Soraya M”? Haven’t you heard what they do to political prisoners in jail, particularly female political prisoners? Haven’t you heard the repeated denials of the Shoah from Ahmadinejad? Haven’t you heard the repeated predictions of the destruction of Israel, and how the Muslim world could sustain multiple nuclear attacks, but that Israel couldn’t sustain one? Haven’t you heard about how Ahmadinejad wants to bring the 12th Imam out of some random well so he can bring about the final victory of Allah?
The Iranian government is theocratic, racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. They are everything you, as somebody who is ostensibly “progressive”, should be against. Instead of strongly condemning their government, you focus more on the actions of a few outliers who are brought to trial almost immediately. BTW, I’m still waiting for you to give us a USG policy document that outright says that collateral damage is an important part of acheiving our military goals. Even if you think of the US as bad, I’d at least think that, given a choice between the US and Iran, you’d recognize that Iran is the greater evil, the “RealGreat Satan” as it were.
You say that you only eat organic produce. No doubt then, you know that organic produce is generally fertilized with manure. If we’re full of pesticides, that must mean you’re full of…
You sick individuals fail to understand the concept of liberation. Even the U.S. needed the assistance of the French for their revolution. For you to see the difference between terrorists killing innocents and us targeting extremists clearly demonstrates your sick masochistic and deluded belief system. You have no moral clarity and stand on the side of dictators and terrorists rather than on the side of freedom – particularly in Iran in which the people demand nothing more and nothing less than a secular democracy.
LoverlyEarth says, “……..but you’re not concerned about a few, hmmm, hundred thousand brown people getting blown to bits by American bombers and Apaches? Look at the poor Palestinians! They get robbed of their land and now every time they stand up for themselves, American supplied helicopters whack a few hundred kids.”
Please provide details. I think your information is grossly inaccurate i.e. a viscous lie. Is this what you call “progressive”? Slandering people that are trying to do good so that perpetrators of evil can gain credibility?
I cannot see into your soul, but I can see that your actions i.e. your words are useful in the service of evil. Do you worship Lucifer, (see “Rules for Radicals” inside front cover, 1st edition by Saul Alinsky) or are you what would be rightly called a “useful idiot”.
And to note: when American troops commit war crimes they go to trial. In contrast, it is supported from the top levels from the Islamic Republic of Terror. To equate waterboarding (which was done only on a select few of the most hardened terrorists) to what the Islamic Republic does to the innocents – including raping virgins before executing them so that they don’t “go to heaven” is deplorable
Yes,waterboarding is a horrible act compared to hand chopping and beheading.1 of those poor former waterboardee’s is so tramatized he is a leader in the Libya uprising.
And we can all see the soldiers and American companies filling oil barrels and their pockets with minerals.Odd,you would think mass murdering of citizens (as you claim) would decrease business with offended countries not improve them.That’s like saying you get better sale prices at a store after robbing it at gunpoint.
We understand Lovely,you believe America invaded these poor helpless innocent people to steal all they have and kill children for laughs.Your comment on Palestine explains your world view perfectly.Funny you don’t mention the property and land stolen from the Jews.Funny you repeatedly mention your assumption of the “brown”race of ppl being victimized.
Christianity, now that’s the problem. Just ask any leftist, [the slugs who call themselves "progressives"]they know the real threat, from American theocrats and Bible thumpers as I recall. You can’t fool the Left.
I’ve often wondered whether the Left would have been more on-board with the Afghan War if Mullah Omar were Monsignor Omar or Pastor Billy Bob.
You mean the Southern Baptist Suicide Bombers?
Ah, the religion of peace. Right.
Although, he may be onto something about marrying a cat – we’re on a slippery slope here in the US.
“Meanwhile, the West has done little to support women’s rights in Iran, or to support those bravely calling for freedom. ”
Iranians have freedom by they fact they submit themselves by choice to their chosen god and political-religious leaders.Did the abused,tortured and raped denounce the cause of their suffering? Do those calling for freedom reject the shackles of Islam and Sharia?
The west sees the muslim attrocities and human rights violations in:Indonesia,Yemen,Iraq,Iran,Bahrain,India,Saudi Arabia,Palestine,Jordan,Libya,Syria,Sudan,Ethiopia,UK,Sweden,Scotland,Algeria,Morroco,Spain,Bosnia,Serbia,Armenia,Afghanistan,Pakistan,China,Korea,Netherlands,Turkey,Eritrea,Ivory Coast, Somalia,Khartoum,Egypt,Kuwait…….
What would you suggest we do? Fight them all? Outlaw Islam? Put together a communist like military,call it democratic and invade these places and take over their political parties,legal systems and religion?
To relieve the political/religious violations you must elliminate the problem,Islam.
It is not our property,country or beliefs,it is theirs and their problem to solve.They have governed this way for 1400 yrs.
The UN does NOTHING about these horrors,we need to leave.
Stop giving them financial aid,training and selling them weapons.
Would you give a fanatical Mormon murderer a gun and $ as a reward for being released from prison early on good behavior?
Speaking out against the Western rule of law with regards to Iran, Larijani added:
Westerners make a mockery of the partnership between a man and a woman as a family unit by saying that two men or two women, homosexuals, can live together as life partners;
I don’t know how gay rights advocating liberals can openly support an anti-gay ideology like islam. How do they reconcile this in their minds?
They don’t even try to reconcile those two beliefs. Otherwise, this would happen:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_k9YRGIDlJZw/SrZhFwScO7I/AAAAAAAABdg/AbVTTN24KIQ/s400/exploding_head_3.jpg
It’s kind of a survival tactic.
if this was translated into english correctly, it really shows how far this individual has to come to understand that all humans have God-given rights not to be subjected to this kind of treatment.
Iran is different from may other Muslim countries only in that we pay more attention to them. None of this is unique to Iran. If we tolerate Saudia Arabia’s “justice”, we have no right at all to criticize Iran, much as we might despise them.
Can we get some of this for the New York fish wrap? Can we deport the Weeeener democrats to Iran? Just asking.
All of the Islamic cruelty and barbarism makes me daily appreciate even more deeply the One true G-D – Creator of heaven and earth. The G-D whose forgiveness is astonishing. Whose love is amazing. And whose infinite mercy and compassion is beyond words to express. And whose Biblical requirement for all humanity is KINDNESS:
Bible, Micah 6:8 And what does the L-RD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your G-D.
What a Glorious, Awesome and Wonderful G-D!
Religion is all evil – just some forms less evil than others. We Iranians are sick of religion altogether. So please, keep your Bible verses to yourself.
Transitioning to democracy is going to be very difficult for ‘we Iranians’ if your attitude is typical and I am not talking about your personal views on religion.
Just another classic moon god worshiper, and what the so called Arab spring will bring to North Africa, Egypt, and anywhere elce the CFR helps the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ya, I’m way off base on this one.
Do not blame the muslims about what they are doing. We have in our hands now the power to wipe out radical islam, but we are to PC to do what needs to be done. This is exactly what Nostradamus predicted would happen. He said we would be attacked and we would dither to long and the muslims would ravage Europe and cause the new land much discomfort. Europe I cry for you, your women will be raped and killed before your very eyes a long with your children! GOD save us all! You PC jerks better understand your enemy islam! Just read their holy book the quran with your eyes open.
Sharia law is barbaric, wake up America!!!!
To Sassan,
In America, we have freedom of speech and freedom of religion. I am exercising my freedom! If I was an Iranian, I too, would be sick of religion! Americans are vehemently opposed to state religion. A country that is run by a religion can be extremely dangerous. Horrible and hate-filled inhuman monsters who persecute innocents and kill in the name of god, HATE the true G-D.
Our G-D is NOT the god of Islam! Our G-D – Creator of the Universe, is NOT evil!
To Linda,
Like in America, in Iran a swell we had thousands of years of secular rule with all people of all faith and beliefs living peacefully side by side. Iran and Iranian kings had even liberated the Jews from the yokes of Babylonians.
All of course changed just a short while ago, 32 years ago to be exact when a murderous regime took power over a secular, educated people by the help of leftist and liberal communists of the world and of course the blessing of the oil companies and British government in particular.
Khomeini came in to power by the support of the West led by Jimmy Carter and the British government. This evil was planned out in that infamous Guadalupe meeting among the leaders of the world back in 1979.
The naive innocent people of Iran were duped, and tricked by what was coming their way.
But hey, what goes around comes around.
It seems like our American President Obama (the 2nd Carter) would not mind to have Americans experience what Iranians have been. The Islamists, their way of life, barbaric tribal culture and all their evil doings coming to America faster than we can read through the lines.
It is only the painful experiences of Iranians that can give Americans the information, necessary warnings and all that we need to be aware and watch out for not succumbing into the hands of barbarians. Obama will not save America, only Americans can do that. So listen to and learn from your Persian brothers and sisters, children of Zoroaster, enemies and targets of Islamists and their sick cultist ideology!
This is exactly why Sharia law must never gain even a toehold in the American court system. It’s barbaric. Any American Muslim that wants to live under Sharia is welcome to move to an Islamic country like Iran.