- The international community must register its forceful condemnation of these kangaroo courts and the executions that are being carried out under their direction, said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran.
- Nariman, who was imprisoned in Iran at age 17, told The Washington Times that the anti-corruption proceedings are acts of a desperate regime pursuing low-level and often innocent suspects so they can show ordinary Iranians that something is being done in a time of growing economic hardship and isolation.
- The embattled Iranian government is increasingly resorting to the most severe punishment execution as it tries to tamp down a wave of financial crimes amid an economic downturn fueled in part by tough U.S. sanctions, according to activists and human rights groups.
- The resulting scramble injected hard currency into the country just as Washington sanctioned Iranian purchases of U.S. dollars and gold trading and set the conditions for an explosion of black-market activity that has wreaked havoc on the prices of essential goods, including medicine and food.
- According to the London-based rights group Amnesty International, Iran has one of the highest execution rates in the world, as well as a long record of killing former officials and leading business figures found guilty of corruption.
- With these abhorrent executions, the Iranian authorities have flagrantly violated international law, said Philip Luther, Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa research director.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/17/iran-corruption-courts-fuel-surge-executions/
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