Iran executes champion wrestler for allegedly murdering a man in a protest on sketchy evidence

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran-executes-wrestler-whose-case-drew-international-attention-n1239958

Iranian state TV on Saturday reported that the country’s authorities executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man, after President Donald Trump asked for the 27-year-old condemned man’s life to be spared.

State TV quoted the chief justice of Fars province, Kazem Mousavi, as saying: “The retaliation sentence against Navid Afkari, the killer of Hassan Torkaman, was carried out this morning in Adelabad prison in Shiraz.”

Afkari’s case had drawn the attention of a social media campaign that portrayed him and his brothers as victims targeted over participating in protests against Iran’s Shiite theocracy in 2018. Authorities accused Afkari of stabbing a water supply company employee in the southern city of Shiraz amid the unrest.

Trump did try stop Iran:

“To the leaders of Iran, I would greatly appreciate if you would spare this young man’s life, and not execute him,” Trump wrote. “Thank you!”

And Iran responded thusly:

Iran responded to Trump’s tweet with a nearly 11-minute state TV package on Afkari. It included the weeping parents of the slain water company employee. The package included footage of Afkari on the back of a motorbike, saying he had stabbed the employee in the back, without explaining why he allegedly carried out the assault.

The state TV segment showed blurred police documents and described the killing as a “personal dispute,” without elaborating. It said Afkari’s cellphone had been in the area and it showed surveillance footage of him walking down a street, talking on his phone.

[dead0man]

do we have any Iran apologists?

[njwes]

do we have any Iran apologists?

🤚

[Never Made it to Graceland]

Trump: I'm ending this internationally-recognized nuclear deal because Obama bad

Trump: I'm murdering one of your general so my overpaid military has a chance to use some of the excess weapons the taxpayers were forced to buy for them

Also Trump: Please don't execute wrestler man uwu

[jaymichaud]

Trump: I'm ending this internationally-recognized nuclear deal because Obama bad

Trump: I'm murdering one of your general so my overpaid military has a chance to use some of the excess weapons the taxpayers were forced to buy for them

Also Trump: Please don't execute wrestler man uwu

2+2=5.

[CumbrianLefty]

The regime in Iran is terrible, nobody save a few cranks disagrees there.

Amazingly, though, the US seems to have thrown its weight behind the few exile groups who might actually turn out even worse.

[Omega21]

The regime in Iran is terrible, nobody save a few cranks disagrees there.

Amazingly, though, the US seems to have thrown its weight behind the few exile groups who might actually turn out even worse.

What's weird about it? The US is the reason the current regime even exists.

Taking down democratic leaders and installing dictators is a very good way to let extremism flourish.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

So much for Trump being against protests?

WLM - Wrestler Lives Matter

(I shouldn't have to say it, but I will. I'm being sarcastic of Trump.)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The regime in Iran is terrible, nobody save a few cranks disagrees there.

Amazingly, though, the US seems to have thrown its weight behind the few exile groups who might actually turn out even worse.

What's weird about it? The US is the reason the current regime even exists.

Taking down democratic leaders and installing dictators is a very good way to let extremism flourish.

^^^100% on point.

[CumbrianLefty]

Anyway, given the popularity of wrestling in Iran and the seeming flimsiness of the evidence - this seems like quite a "brave" thing for the regime to do?

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

The regime in Iran is terrible, nobody save a few cranks disagrees there.

Amazingly, though, the US seems to have thrown its weight behind the few exile groups who might actually turn out even worse.

Well the current government is better than the Shah, so no surprise there.

[CumbrianLefty]

The regime in Iran is terrible, nobody save a few cranks disagrees there.

Amazingly, though, the US seems to have thrown its weight behind the few exile groups who might actually turn out even worse.

Well the current government is better than the Shah, so no surprise there.

The revolution in 1979 had *overwhelming* public support (75-80% backing is probably a fair guess) Its easy to forget that given how things subsequently turned out.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

The regime in Iran is terrible, nobody save a few cranks disagrees there.

Amazingly, though, the US seems to have thrown its weight behind the few exile groups who might actually turn out even worse.

Well the current government is better than the Shah, so no surprise there.

The revolution in 1979 had *overwhelming* public support (75-80% backing is probably a fair guess) Its easy to forget that given how things subsequently turned out.

Domino effect of the Great American Empire at play once again.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well the current government is better than the Shah, so no surprise there.

So long as you aren't left-wing, homosexual, from an ethnic or religious minority, or a woman.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Well the current government is better than the Shah, so no surprise there.

So long as you aren't left-wing, homosexual, from an ethnic or religious minority, or a woman.

I mean Stalin was better than Hitler, but of course that didn't mean much to you if you survived the Holocaust to die in a gulag.

[CumbrianLefty]

Well the current government is better than the Shah, so no surprise there.

So long as you aren't left-wing, homosexual, from an ethnic or religious minority, or a woman.

Some of those didn't always do so great under the Pahlavis tbf.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Well the current government is better than the Shah, so no surprise there.

So long as you aren't left-wing, homosexual, from an ethnic or religious minority, or a woman.

Some of those didn't always do so great under the Pahlavis tbf.

Iran is surprisingly progressive in their attitudes towards transgender people IIRC. I could be horrifically misinformed though.

[CumbrianLefty]

Yes that is actually largely true. Though it is still double-edged in a way, as it is also used to "justify" their ferocious anti-gay stance.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well the current government is better than the Shah, so no surprise there.

So long as you aren't left-wing, homosexual, from an ethnic or religious minority, or a woman.

Some of those didn't always do so great under the Pahlavis tbf.

No they didn't, and I would certainly not defend that regime which was brutal and cruel. But less into mass murder. I'm always shocked at how few 'internationalist' lefties are aware that the present regime is responsible for the biggest single slaughter of left-wingers this side of the Indonesian Genocide. Some of the people directly involved continue to hold high office, right now. You would think this would be seared into everyone's brains, but apparently not.

[CumbrianLefty]

Oh, there is no doubt about all that.

In his magnum opus John O'Farrell recalled a book he received from the Iranian "resistance" in the 1980s, which was mostly just endless lists of names that had met their grisly end at the hands of the Ayatollahs - interspersed with occasional pics of people hanging from cranes