Iran Stones Man To Death For Adultery

Man Convicted Of Adultery Executed Under Iran's Islamic Law

(AP)  In a rare confirmation, Iran on Tuesday said a man convicted of adultery was stoned to death last week in a village in the northern part of the country, Iran's judiciary spokesman said.

Jafar Kiani was stoned to death in Aghchekand village, 124 miles west of the capital, Tehran, on Thursday, Ali Reza Jamshidi told reporters. It was the first time in years that Iran has confirmed such an execution.

"This verdict was carried out Thursday," Jamshidi told reporters.

Death sentences are carried out in Iran after they are upheld by the Supreme Court. Under Iran's Islamic law, adultery is punishable by stoning.

Jamshidi didn't elaborate on how the stoning was carried out, but under Islamic rulings, a male convict is usually buried up to his waist while a female criminal is buried up to her neck with her hands also buried.

Those carrying out the verdict start throwing stones and rocks at the convict until he or she dies.

International human rights groups have long condemned stoning in Iran as a "cruel and barbaric" punishment.

Earlier Tuesday before Iran confirmed the stoning, U.N. human rights chief Louise Arbour condemned the execution, her spokesman said.

"The execution has apparently gone ahead despite Iran's moratorium on execution by stoning, a moratorium that had been in effect since 2002," said Jose Diaz of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

"Stoning is in clear violation of international law," Diaz said Tuesday in Geneva. He said Arbour considered stoning to be a form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment that is prohibited under an international treaty which Iran has signed.

Also Tuesday in Norway, the Foreign Ministry said Iran's ambassador was summoned by Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere to protest the stoning.

Gahr Stoere was "deeply upset" that the death penalty had been carried out and called stoning an "inhumane and barbaric method of punishment," Foreign Ministry spokesman Frode Andersen said in Oslo.

The reported execution comes two weeks after international pressure, including protests from Norway, caused Iranian officials to delay carrying out the sentence against Kiani and his female companion, Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, who also was sentenced to death by stoning. It was not known if a date had been set for her execution.

The couple had reportedly been imprisoned for 11 years.

Stoning was widely imposed in the early years after the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the pro-Western Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought hard-line clerics to power. But in recent years, it has rarely been applied, though the government rarely confirms when it carries out stoning sentences.

There is no official report of the last time Iran stoned someone to death, but there were unconfirmed media reports that a couple was stoned in 2006 in Mashhad, located in northeastern Iran.

A group of women's rights activists headed by feminist lawyer Shadi Sadr have been campaigning to have the sentence removed from Iran's statute books.

In the past years, Iran's reformist legislators demanded an end to death by stoning as a punishment for adultery, but opposition from hard-line clerics sidelined their efforts.

Capital offenses in Iran include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, adultery or prostitution, treason and espionage.

[ianlou]

"Civilized Iran" is an Oximoron.

[mtredhawk200]

Wow, Iran has equal rights now! They stone both genders! The religion is stone age.

[gunownerdan]

This is what happens when religion and governemnt are one.
In America we had "witch" burnings.

[oakishpines]

... since 99 percent of punishments were being applied to kids age five and less, and since kids age five and less are 99 percent more likely to suffer injury or death as a result of a spanking, and since spanking adults results in more spankings applied to children, and since spanking authorities results in more spankings being applied to civilians, it has been determined that all the plants and animals that refuse to spank their young must be destroyed immediately ...

[gunownerdan]

This is what happens when religion and government are one.
In America we burned "witches".
In Nazi Germany they burned Jews.
I'm not condoning adultery but no government should ever again be allowed to give people such cruel and unusual punishments.

[pepperp1]

Senator Vitter should be concerned he will now lose his Iranian constituents vote for sure.

[wadyaknow]

What a great idea. We should adopt it here, that way we could get rid of most Republican Senators and PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES!!!

[adventurepa]

Posted by GunOwnerDan
"This is what happens when religion and government are one.
In America we burned "witches".
In Nazi Germany they burned Jews."

So true!!!
In Iran they stone people.
To bad stoning doesn't mean smoking the peace pipe.

[wolf563]

Iran is an adulterer itself . Iran is in bed with the devil . Iran is in bed with al-Qaida .Iran is in bed with Syria . Iran is the devils outreached hand .

[ronaldstark]

They've been doing these "type" of executions in the middle east for thousands of years. As soon as the liberals allow the muslims to take over the U.S. in a few years this will be happening in Arizona!, Arkansas!, Ohio!, California! etc! etc! First the liberals will take away our guns...then they will take our homes. Then they will be double crossed by the oil interests they are in bed with and the government will be dismantled. Support the NRA! Question everything you see and hear.

[incog-nito]

RonaldStark: You might want to start by questioning your own sanity.

[rushlimpdrug]

This is so pathetically sad.
There was a young girl in that part of the world stoned to death also.
Death penalty for rapist, child molesters,
but to stone someone for adultery or falling in love with someone of another religion- total stupidity.

[Syndicate]

Expect more of this out of Iran. With the rampant inflation on Fuel food and housing the government will have to demonstrate its power on a continuous basis in order to keep the masses in line. They are already burning gas stations.

[peacethinker-2009]

Barbaric morons. Maybe we should bomb them.

[texas468]

Wow, my ex-husband would have been in a world of *** then, wouldn't he????

[feelfree1]

We allow the death penalty in this country, so this is yet another topic on which we have no place pointing fingers at others.

[mjm117]

Wow Ronald. Liberals fault huh? Do you wake up every day angry?

[grazinggoat]

My scientist background pushed me to do some search reagrding prevention of Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) over the net. Took Google as as earch engine and found this result.

I know this is not the best way of preventing STDs to dissiminate throughout a population, but it seems to work quite a bit. In general in Islamic countries, HIV/AIDS occurrence is very minimal, marginal not to say non-existing compared to other more open countries. In Iran in particular, AIDS due to sexual practices is almost null, great majority is due to injected drug junkies, using same needles.

http://www.who.int/GlobalAtlas/predefinedReports/EFS2004/EFS_PDFs/EFS2004_ir.pdf

Iran compares well better compared to others countries in HIV/AIDS. Surely death by stoning as a penalty to adultery, is an ugly unhuman practice, whereever practiced, but seems to work.

It's like washing your hands before eating and preventing spread of flu infections compared to its treatment. Simple 'fear-based' prevention method.

I know some over this thread will be upset by this posting, but it's just a remark. It's the conservative part of me, when it comes to Human Health, I'm there...

[clarkssuppor]

It seems we should do more to work with the Iranians in a diplomatic manner. They will be good collaborators to help end the violence in Iraq. We should not be so worried about whether they have nuclear weapons...it is their right to self defense.

[gunownerdan]

Americans United for Separation of Church and State
www.au.org

"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all law-religions, or religions established by law."
- Thomas Paine

[prosperine-2009]

This was a common method of punishment for adulterers during the time of Christ. (Remember how the religious leaders brought to Jesus the woman taken in adultery? He told them "Who among you is without sin can cast the first stone" and, being convicted by their consciences, they all went away.) Hard to believe that 21 centuries later people still resort to such barbaric treatment. Weird to hear how a man is actually on the receiving end of the punishment -- usually it's the woman getting it, because you know, we're responsible for the entire world going to hell in a handbasket.

[dogsoul]

"What a great idea. We should adopt it here, that way we could get rid of most Republican Senators and PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES!!! "

Only a liberal could make such an obviously hypocritical statement... Do I even have to mention names like ohhhh... I dunno... Bill Clinton, Kennedy, McGreevy, I mean how long of a list do you need before you try to say adultery is a 'Republican' thing?

[tbweb]

Good thing they don't practice stoning in the U.S. for adultery, we would lose half our male population! LOL and this Senator just caught up in the escort scandal, heck even Bill Clintor would be history, but the good thing is they would only be able to stone him once, sad but true! LOL

[antoniof123]

Sen. David Vitter, R-La move to Iran.

[dogsoul]

"We allow the death penalty in this country, so this is yet another topic on which we have no place pointing fingers at others."

And I suppose if some country put people to death for jay walking, or being Jewish you'd say we have no place to point fingers because we put people to death for things like child murder? That's like saying since we put people in jail for armed robbery, we have no place to point fingers at countries who put people in jail for dancing...

Ya get the difference mongo?

[one_american]

I'm a little worried that the liberals will only half-read this story, thinking that they can travel to Iran and the government will get them stoned...

Actually, I'm not worried at all.

Feel free to travel to Iran, liberals, and then party hard!

[dogsoul]

"Good thing they don't practice stoning in the U.S. for adultery, we would lose half our male population! "

...and about 40% of our female population

[lars008-2009]

it is the tyranny of fascist nazi terrorislam stupid...

LOOK WHO IS TARGETING CIVILIANS

Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical MO for fascist nazi terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bl
ess-the-beasts-and-children.htm

Hizbullah Deputy Sec-Gen Sheikh Naim Qassem: We Have Jurisprudent Permission to Carry Out 'Martyrdom' Operations, Fire Missiles on Israeli Civilians From Ayatollah Khomeini
http://memri.org/bin/latestnew
s.cgi?ID=SD154907

Switching Sides: Inside The Enemy Camp

But then in 2000, well before his arrest, something happened which would make Abas question everything he believed in: a fatwa, a religious edict, was issued by Osama bin Laden.

"It should be understood that killing Americans and Jews anywhere found are the highest act of worship and the highest form of good deeds in the eyes of Allah," Simon quotes bin Laden.

Abas and his fellow commanders were ordered to read the fatwa to their men and make sure they carried it out. The others obeyed, but Abas refused. It was his moment of truth. He firmly believed that jihad was to be fought only on the battlefield in defense of Islam; he had always been taught that the killing of civilians had nothing to do with holy war and that it was forbidden.

The fatwa justified killing non-Muslim civilians everywhere.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05
/04/60minutes/main2761108.shtml

[feelfree1]

'dogsoul',

Re: "That's like saying since we put people in jail for armed robbery, we have no place to point fingers at countries who put people in jail for dancing..."

"Ya get the difference mongo?"

I disagree with this analogy, but you have made a stronger point here than usual, so, credit where due.

[dogsoul]

Ya know... the western world CERTAINLY gives infinitely MORE benefit of the doubt to Muslims than they would EVER grant us - heck, liberals spend much of their time defending all things Muslim while sounding off from the mountain tops about each & every offense stemming from western countries, e.g. Abu Grahib, Guantanamo, Israel, collateral civilian deaths, etc... but with each passing day, with each stoning, beheading, terror attack, mosque blown up, riot, and the many rantings of their beloved clerics... it just seems to me that even the staunchest of liberal allies to radical Islam are beginning to see that it IS in reality possible that being "open minded", "accepting", and "tolerant" of Muslim beliefs is utterly futile... they have absolutely no interest in reaching some understanding with ANYone - in fact, many regard peaceful coexistance as an affront to their core beliefs - and proclaim it loudly & proudly by the way... Even those that don't actually COMMIT the terror seem to at the very least condone those that do...

Sure, Christians have committed all sorts of atrocities in their history - but they had to do so by either rationalizing away or outright defying the core tenets of Christianity... And sure, Muslims HAVE managed to live peacefully with neighbors of a different religion, but they had to do so by either rationalizing away or outright denying the core tenets of Islam... the net difference in these two scenerios is what we're seeing in the world today... IMO

[agnim]

These interfering westerners sully the whole objection to these acts of barbarism by their nonsensical talk about 'international (meaning european) law'. What freaking international law in people's country; especially when there can be nor enforcement of in other people's country.

The punishment is excessive and barbaric, as per the Natural Laws governing human behavior. To hell with international laws. They are domineering and dictatorial.

[ptruth2]

Under Islam, adultry on earth is punishable by getting stoned to death. But, if you kill non-Muslims, you go to heaven and have adultry with 72 virgins. That makes sense! Only under Islam could a sin on earth be encouraged in heaven!!

[downtowner97]

In the US, guys get stoned and cheat on thier wives. In Iran, guys cheat on their wives and get stoned.

[lfitts1]

And we expect to install a democratic government in Iraq--how stupid is this administration ???

[lars008-2009]

Posted by dogsoul at 12:31 PM : Jul 10, 2007

NONE OF US IS FREE UNLESS ALL ARE FREE!!!

WHY IS IT NOT ONE MUSLIM COUNTRY GRANTS EQUAL RIGHTS TO NON MUSLIMS???

FASCIST NAZI ISLAM SAYS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATES ISLAM LAW...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

For example, in 1981, the Iranian representative to the United Nations, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, articulated the position of his country regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by saying that the UDHR was "a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition", which could not be implemented by Muslims without trespassing the Islamic law.

http://www.un.org/terrorism/
http://www.un.org/terrorism/strategy-counter-terrorism.html
http://www.un.org/

But the accepted assumption in India is that most of India's Muslims were converted to Islam through the sword. Meaning the Indians were given an option between death or adopting Islam. The third option was getting examined in Islam religion along with heavy taxes- Jeziya (poll tax) and Kharaj (property tax).
http://adaniel.tripod.com/Islam.htm

this is what fascist nazi islam calls peace....

are you ready to live under islam rule as a non muslim???

apartheid fascist nazi islamic style

Rights of Non-Muslims in an Islamic State
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/islamic_state.htm

[weareone2]

This is truly barbaric and sick. These people are using their religion to satisfy their primitive sadistic desires.
And I would like to note that I am an agnostic. I worked for several years at a company where most of the people were fundamentalist baptists. I was told I would get my fanny burned. (ie., go to hell). When I was in an office with a door to the outside, a dead bird was left outside my door. There were acts of petty harassment against me. A fellow agnostic and I both truly believe that if these people could have gotten away with it, they would have burned us both at the stake. And most of them were retired military engineers, not high school dropouts. Of course, they were Reagan-worshipping Republicans.

[ptruth2]

trbl24u - did you ever read the Koran? All it talks about is death, destruction and chaos. Death is the answer to numerous "crimes" that most consider non-capital (is killing an adulterer the appropriate punishment for that "crime"?) Don't project your Western beliefs and think Muslims are like you - they aren't. Read the Koran and study the history of Mohammed. No other "religious" leader, such as Buddha, Jesus or Moses, went around with an army killing those who refused to convert, like Mohammed did. Islam is a deadly cult - - nothing like areligion you are familiar with.

[cbs_oliver]

The practice of stoning is barbaric.

It is bad enough when it is carried out by outlaw peasants who may not know better, but it is a serious offense when carried out by the government of Iran.

[hypnotoad72]

Barbaric, yes, but how else does one compel a guy to keep his trousers up? Unless taxing the guy to death would be a suitable substitute... since so many people complain of high taxes while otherwise divorcing their wives every few years for another...

[hypnotoad72]

What surprises me is that they haven't stoned the adulter's wife for allowing him to do so. Misogyny doesn't make the heart grow fonder...

[dogsoul]

"I think it is time for America to stop being the world police and worry about what is in our own backyard. "

...like, for example, the rubble from the fallen World Trade Center Towers in New York City?

[lars008-2009]

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry

USA's PLEDGE 2 THE WORLD GIVEN BY JFK!!

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." --John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Winston Churchill

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." Albert Einstein

Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing

[dogsoul]

The fact is that in America, the best guesstimate is that 60% of men cheat & about 40% of women... What's more, men are more likely to engage in relatively unattached cheating like one night stands while women are more prone towards full blown affairs... so we're really only talking about a 10% swing either way & the mitigating circumstances element further flattens the playing field (pun intended). Now while some say men have a double standard when it comes to cheating, many women will try to rationalize THEIR cheating as some kind of retribution or 'payback' for actions historically committed by men against women... Of course, if you're living in the here & now that doesn't hold up very well... After all, as a guy myself, why should I have to pay for crimes I never committed - and why should modern women get off the hook when those crimes weren't committed against them? That's not to say men & women don't still cheat on eachother - just that the "men have been doing this for centuries" arguement doesn't really work to justify anything.

And as far as men getting let off easy? Not in America - if you're a female teacher who sleeps with her students, it's a slap on the wrist & a book deal - male on female students... you're going away buddy. Wife kills her preacher husband? She may be out in 6 months, just by claiming he's abusive w/out any hard supporting evidence. Wife cuts off husband's johnson? Same thing, cry on the stand & you're off easy...

[tbweb]

Islam allows men up to 4 wives if the man can afford them, so how is Islam defining adultery? Plus the man gets 21 Virgins if he blows himself up when he gets to Islamic Heaven! So lets see, adultery in Islamic Heaven is okay but you get stoned to death for comitting it on Earth! The suicide bombers should wise up and ask for a month or 2 with their 21 virgins now just to hedge their bets! :)

[emsaund1]

Right on Lars008! That's what AMERICA is all about!

[lars008-2009]

she says if people really read into the Koran they would see it is about love.
Posted by trbl24u at 02:48 PM : Jul 10, 2007

YAHHHHHHHH love to kill non muslims...

Living in Hell by Ghazal Omid, iranian
www.livinginhell.com/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0975968300/ref=sib_fs_top/104-3631381-4433551?ie=UTF8&p=S00H&checkSum=w28U1ECv%2FPO%2BBBHOFm6jElpRelpbZAqjMYTRfnmScyw%3D#reader-link
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ghazal+Omid&search=Search
Any Plan to Negotiate with Iran Would Be a Disaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ROP7SDUa0
insurgents vote demonic-rat%u2026
Killing Americans for the Democrats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NJcaQaxFpM
Is Iraq a Lost Cause?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg7zm38FFzw&mode=related&search=
Terrorists in Iraq are Trying to Influence Midterm Elections
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCS4Ysstsc
Ahmadinutjob: Iran To Have Nuclear Program by March 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwRN4lkCJkI

THIS IRANIAN HAS A GOOD IDEA!!!
Ali Sina, an ex-Muslim from Iran. He is the creator of Faithfreedom.org.
Yet I know that by eradicating Islam we can save the world from the dangers of a catastrophe that otherwise is looming over our heads and could cause more disaster than the 1st and 2nd World Wars combined. Eradication of Islam means restoring peace among humanity and civility, democracy and prosperity in the Muslim world.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/why_i_left_islam.htm

[lars008-2009]

it is fascist nazi terrorislam stupid%u2026.

non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside...

Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
http://islamqa.com/index.php?r
ef=13759&ln=eng&txt=before%20islam%20ara
bia%20pagan

[ptruth2]

trbl24u - I suggest reading the Koran just like you would read any other book, not that it should replace the good words and truth of the Bible. It is advisable to understand your enemy, and the Koran is their instruction book for death, destruction and chaos. I think we should leave them alone and not meddle as well. Our good intentions have never amounted to much in that part of the world. I never understood why we helped Kuwait back in 1993. Why didn't other ME countries come to their aid? When we helped Kuwait, Saudi Arabia was concerend that Iraq might come after them and asked for our help. We built a $2 billion military airport in Arabia, which enraged Osama. He met with the Saudi royals, and demanded that the "infidels" get out of the "holy land." When the royals refused, he became what he is today. We have in many ways created more problems for ourselves in the ME by our misguided attempts to help people who don't understand anything but tribal ideologies and brutality. Even with the latest Iraqi war, the whole premise of going there was faulty - - even if Saddam had WMD's, he never would have used it againts us. After all, N. Korea and the old Soviet empire had 1000's of WMS's, and we never invaded them, even though they always presented more of a threat to us than Saddam ever did. Iraq at the time was also a secular country, with no religious affiliation, and no terrorists. Now, poor Iraq is a mess. The Muslim world does not deserve our help or involvment.

[lars008-2009]

"When they came to arrest the Jews, I did not say any thing. I am not a Jew.
When they came to arrest the communists, I did not say anything. I am not a communist.
When they came to arrest the socialists, I did not say anything. I am not a socialist.
When they came to arrest the homosexuals, gypsies, mentally retarded, etc. I did not say anything, I am none of the above.
When they came to arrest me, there was no one to speak for me."

when they came for
http://www.qubetv.tv/videos/detail/3

is youtube pro terrorislam???
http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_856841_Michelle_Malkin_Video_Banned_on_Youtube.htm

[prinzowhales]

Yes, stoning is barbaric, lars 008, but so is dropping a 2,000 pound bomb on an apartment building full of children, but that never stops Israel. At least the fellow knew what he was risking with his adultery--the children committed no offense.