{"id":5996,"date":"2018-02-08T18:33:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2018-02-08T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:35:08","slug":"friday-prayer-leader-says-protesters-should-be-hanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/?p=5996","title":{"rendered":"Friday Prayer Leader Says Protesters Should Be Hanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Tehran\u2019s hard-line provisional Friday Prayer leader, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, has explicitly threatened protesters in Iran with the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On February 2, Khatami said that according to Shia religious rules, the just sentence for those who \u201cpour into the street\u201d and \u201coppose the ruler\u201d is the death penalty. He described those who rise against the establishment as \u201cbaghi,\u201d an Arabic word that literally means tyrant or aggressor.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5997 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ahmad-KHatami-namazjome-96-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"154\" \/>Khatami was referring to the recent protests against tyranny, poverty, and unemployment that broke out on December 28 in Iran\u2019s holiest Shi\u2019ite city, Mashhad, and soon spread across the country.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The protesters, rallying against economic hardship, chanted slogans against Supreme Leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calling for the downfall of the theocratic regime.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lambasting authorities for releasing an unknown number of protesters detained nationwide, Khatami said, \u201cThe honorable authority says in an interview that all protesters have been freed. This is pampering them when they should be punished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Khatami, who is renowned for his raging speeches, continued, \u201cThose who had been hoodwinked and deceived should be awakened, punished, and commit themselves in writing to refrain from further devilry and being pawns at the hands of rioters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RadioLiberty<\/p>\n<p>\u0628\u0627\u0632\u062f\u06cc\u062f\u0647\u0627: 107<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran\u2019s hard-line provisional Friday Prayer leader, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, has explicitly threatened protesters in Iran with the death penalty. On February 2, Khatami said that according to Shia religious rules, the just sentence for those who \u201cpour into the street\u201d and \u201coppose the ruler\u201d is the death penalty. He described those who rise against the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yarsanmedia.org\/ku\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}