NCRI – The mullahs' regime carried out the sentence on a prisoner and amputated his hand as the regime’s court ruled, the state-run daily Quds reported on Tueday.
The man who was not identified, was sentenced to 6 months jail and 30 lashes, in addition to amputation of his hand, the report said.
“We would deal harshly with those who make our society unsafe,” prosecutor general of the western province of Kermanshah said on the sideline of the execution of the inhuman punishment.
In February, in a press conference at the Iranian regime's embassy in Madrid, Seyed Davoud Salehi, the regime’s ambassador to Spain, justified the inhuman punishment of amputation and hangings in Iran, Spanish Media reported.
The regime's ambassador compared chopping off the hands of victims to a "surgeon amputating a limb to prevent the spread of gangrene. " He argued that the death penalty was necessary "to preserve the health of the society as a whole.
"Our laws establish that we amputate a hand of those who steal. It is not accepted in the West, but local customs must be respected", he said.
