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Iranian woman handed death sentence for ‘blasphemy’ in social media post (www.theguardian.com)
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Rights groups warn of Tehran regime’s increasing use of executions to suppress dissent, with at least 600 this year

Human rights groups have raised the alarm over the growing number of death sentences and executions in Iran, after reports that a 23-year-old woman, Najmeh Amini, has been sentenced to death for blasphemy over a social-media post.

Amini, an accounting student, is being held in Vakilabad prison in the north-east city of Mashhad. She has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison and death in separate cases heard by a revolutionary and a criminal court.

A source close to Amini’s family told the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) that Amini was sentenced to death on charges of “sab ol-nabi” (insulting the prophet). She was reportedly arrested following online monitoring by Iran’s Cyber Police (Fata). The exact content of her posts has not been publicly disclosed.

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[–] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (4 children)

One, not all of them are opinion pieces,

Two, even after being able to list tens of articles I specifically said this still DOESN'T mean this is their editorial stance point despite you claiming that their editorial stance point is pro zionism only after showing two articles. Something doesn't add up here. Also fuck Hamas by the way, I don't know if that article reflects anything truthful but Hamas is a terrorist organization and just like genocide, it should be condemned. I understand the urge to hurt the other side after decades of opression and genocide but still won't side with killing civilians as a rational person. I can't condemn them for all this. If I saw my kid get blown to pieces I would probably join them too. But it doesn't mean I see them as the solution to this ongoing genocide or that I would expect a mainstream media to completely side with them. It is unrealistic and unreasonable. Not to mention Hamas was a actually supported by Israel for a long time so supporting Hamas is kind of cyclic. They are likely infiltrated by Israeli agents (of Palestinian origin) and being used as puppets in this opression to create casus belli for Israel.

Three, being able to release REGULAR opinion pieces about genocide and actual articles about the extent of destruction going in in Gaza is much more than any mainstream western media is doing right now. And I believe this has had positive impact on regular pro palestine marches in the UK some of which reached to almost half a million in attendance. Stop with this "anyone who doesn't do stuff exactly the way I want them to is a Zionist" rhetoric, doesn't help you, doesn't help anyone and makes you look like a bot.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

    Also fuck Hamas by the way, I don’t know if that article reflects anything truthful but Hamas is a terrorist organization

    I understand so you are a Zionist. Now I see why you support TheGuardians Zionist propaganda goodbye.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago* (2 children)

    Goodbye

    Sorry before you go, here is a fact about your favourite independence fighters

    The Israeli government has been involved in assisting or empowering the Palestinian political and military organization Hamas at various points in its history.[a] This support continued during and in spite of active military hostilities between the two sides.

    But ofcourse for you wikipedia is also a Zionist organization (that somehow holds the Israeli state accountable for double dealing and genocide but where you go logic does not seem to follow so that is ok).

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  • [–] 2 points 38 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

    You accuse other news sources of being zionist propaganda and then show me an article who quotes pro-Hamas scholars. But anyway I will humor you.

    The only thing this article probably accurately portrays is how Hamas originated, not how it evolved. This article can only reliably refute that Israel did not create Hamas, which also is not really my claim or the majority of wikipedia article's claim (although it does cite interviews from some Israeli officials claiming this, that is not really any proof). Empowering is not the same thing as creating. Somehow this article glosses over some of the more tangible evidences that this claim is built upon like how the Israeli military doing nothing in the 1980 riots despite them being quite trigger happy at the slightest commotion. Israel quite often stood by when the fundamentalists battled more pro-secular wings which under normal stances would be something contrary to a state which wants to "root out Islamism" from their neighborhood.

    The article also says that Zionists are spreading these rumors as a cudgel to keep Nethanyahu in check, which funny enough only makes sense if there is some truth behind it so that it can actually be used as blackmail. So that makes me believe that Israeli state supported Hamas even more. You can also have a look at this related article if you are actually reading anything I am putting here

    That article quoting pro-hamas scholars as evidence is the same as me quoting a nationalist Israel news article as a source. Atleast I try to keep my sources varied. Also I am sure you can see the circular logic in calling the act of accusing Israel of actually funding instability in the region and using that as a casus belli for genocide a "Hasbara". How does that even help Israel? Israel has been using all its PR apparatus to convince the rest of the world that they are the "good guys", this goes completely against that.

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