Urmye’s Friday Prayers leader wants to display executed bodies in public
The Friday Prayers leader in the city of Urmye, Hojjatoleslam Gholam-Reza Hassani, apparently believes “that the bodies of executed dissidents must be displayed in public to prevent further riots.”
“In order to prevent further unrest, the bodies of the executed [protesters] must be put on public display in the streets of Tehran,” Hassani said. “The tongues of those saying ‘Iranian Republic’ instead of ‘Islamic Republic’ must be pulled out, and the hearts of the families of martyrs and those devoted to the establishment will only feel relief when those insulting Ashura are executed.”
“Iran is no place for seditionists; they must leave because if they stay they will defile the scared Friday prayers. They are the same people who danced at Tehran’s Friday prayers; they have no place in Iran.”
“It is hard to bear the fact that the leaders of sedition are being kept safe while they are thinking about overthrowing the rule of the worthy (pious). Why is it that the people’s tax money must be spent on the safety of the leaders of the sedition?”
Translation by the Tehran Bureau
