NCRI -The Iranian regime’s judiciary has sentenced a 20-year-old in Tehran to be blinded and have his ear cut off, the state-run daily Etemad reported on Thursday.
The young man, identified as Hamid, was only 16 when he committed the alleged crime.
On November 8, Iranian regime’s deputy chief of police, Asghar Jafari, said that police is ready to carry out amputations to deal with “insecurity,” state-run news agency IRNA reported.
He added that”Evading to carry out these sentences is the main reason why these crimes are not uprooted in the country,” and “this is followed by escalation of insecurity in the country.”
In February 2008, in a press conference at the Iranian regime's embassy in Madrid, the regime’s ambassador to Spain, justified the inhuman punishment of amputations, 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.
