NCRI – Following uprising of the people of Esfahan which is in its fifth day, Esfahan’s prosecutor-general Mohammad Reza Habibi in a statement said, “I warn those who try to disrupt internal security by inciting individuals to destroy, the Islamic penal code for such individuals waging war against God is execution.”
While describing the protestors as “a few opportunist individuals” who try to take advantage of young people’s fervor to inflict blows to the establishment, he acknowledged that 200 people have been arrested including “minors” and 30 to 40 others wounded in Esfahan. He reiterated, “Some of the detainees are charged with serious crimes.”
Having failed to quell the people’s uprising in Esfahan with brutal suppression, widespread arrests, and killing and wounding a large number of protestors, the clerical regime is trying in vain to prevent the outpour of the people’s anger by resorting to executions and hangings in a bid to impose a reign of terror.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 17, 2009