They’re exactly like money in the bank for the Mad Mullahs. And when normal income sources are blocked for cause, a country’s gotta do what a country’s gotta do. Though I suspect they’d be kidnapping for ransom anyway, because that’s what the Master Religion gets to do.
[Rudaw] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
sentenced a British-Iranian anthropologist who has studied child marriage and female genital mutilation to nine years in jail and fined him over $700,000 in cash, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported Sunday.
The report said Kameel Ahmady was sentenced by Iran’s Revolutionary Court on charges of cooperation with European embassies in support of promoting homosexuality, visiting Israel as a news hound for the BBC, cooperation and communication with foreign and hostile media, infiltration aimed at changing the law, and sending false reports about the country to the U.N.’s special rapporteur on human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
in Iran.
The report said Ahmady has the right to appeal within 20 days.
In October 2019, Iran acknowledged Ahmady’s arrest for suspected links to institutes affiliated with foreign intelligence services.
His wife Shafagh Rahmani and activists had announced he was detained in August that same year. At the time, the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran said Ahmady previously had been the target of hard-liners in Iranian media for his work "on politically sensitive topics including child marriage, LGBTQ issues and female genital mutilation."
He was released in November 2019 on bail. Sunday’s report did not say if he was still free.
Travel to Israel and homosexuality are both illegal in Iran. Offenders can face up to five years in prison for visiting Israel. Homosexuals can face the death penalty
if they commit sexual intercourse, although there have been no reports of capital punishment for homosexuality in recent years.
Ahmady is one of several dual nationals who’ve been detained by Iran over the past few years. Iran does not recognize dual citizenship.
Iran holds another British-Iranian national, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has already served most of her five-year sentence on espionage charges. She was granted temporary release this spring and allowed to remain indefinitely at her parents’ Tehran home because of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...pandemic.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an employee at the Thomson Rooters Foundation, the charitable arm of the news agency, was tried on charges of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government.