NCRI – The semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami quoted on July 4 the Prosecutor General of the southwestern city of Ahwaz, Iraj Amirkhani, as saying, “The maxim [death] sentence has been sought for 22 people indicted in the Ahwaz bombings.”
Simultaneous death sentences for 22 people are an indication of the province’s volatile state and the medieval regime’s ever-increasing weakness in confronting the popular discontent in the forms of demonstrations and uprisings which have come about as a result of severe poverty and extreme suppression by the regime in the past few months.
Confronted by a wave of increasing popular discontent, the mullahs’ regime has dispatched groups of suppressive forces to Khuzistan Province, in particular targeting the city of Ahwaz to suppress the uprisings.
The Iranian Resistance condemns the suppression of the people of Khuzestan and urges international human rights organizations to take urgent steps to prevent the execution of the innocent people of Khuzistan Province
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 4, 2006
