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Iranian authorities threaten protesters with execution
Saturday, 27 June 2009
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A leading Iranian cleric has said that opposition protesters who fight with the authorities should be killed.
In one of the harshest statements since the June 12th elections Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami said:
"Anyone who takes up arms to fight with the people, they are worthy of execution."
Those who disturbed the peace and destroyed public property were "at war with
God" and should be "dealt with without mercy," he said in a nationally televised sermon.
The threat comes as opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi slipped further from view and the Guardian Council, Iran's top electoral body, proclaimed the vote the "healthiest" held since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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