Iran Executes Jewish Citizen over Fatal Stabbing He Claimed Was in Self-Defense
A Jewish Iranian man, Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, was executed on Monday morning, November 4, in Iran, a rights watchdog reported, after a two-year battle by his family and the local Jewish community to save his life.
Ghahremani 20, was hanged at the central prison in the western city of Kermanshah after being convicted of a murder during a street fight, said the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group. He was allegedly defending himself against a knife attack when he killed Amir Shokri in a 2022 brawl.
“In the midst of the threats of war with Israel, the Islamic Republic executed Arvin Ghahremani, an Iranian Jewish citizen,” said IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, adding the legal case had “significant flaws.”
“However, in addition to this, Arvin was a Jew, and the institutionalized antisemitism in the Islamic Republic undoubtedly played a crucial role in the execution of his sentence,” Amiry-Moghaddam added.
Meanwhile, Iranian authorities arrested a female student on Saturday after she staged a solo protest against harassment by stripping down to her underwear outside her university, media reports said.
The woman had been harassed inside Tehran’s prestigious Islamic Azad University by members of the Basij paramilitary force who ripped her headscarf and clothes, according to reports by several news outlets and social media channels outside Iran. (TOI/VFI News)
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