Due to be executed tomorrow.

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for adultery

Absolutely appalling.

I think they have convicted her of murder rather than adultery.

The charge was that she was complicit in his murder, but the man who actually carried it out did it was not sentenced to death. The government say she was convicted, she says she was acquitted on that count.

CNN link

Whatever the charge, you can guarantee it was an unfair trial.....medieval.

Not only was the man not sentenced to death but hasn't he been released already?
Shocking.

The Americans did something similar recently....executed a woman who conspired to kill her ex and stepson and the men who actually killed them got life sentences.

Hideous revolting regime.

How on earth did a once civilized country ever get to such a medieval condition.

Shame on you Iran.

Barbarians, misogynists and a disgrace to all that is good about Islam.

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I just signed the petition...bumping to get more signatures.

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I may be a bit late, but have added self, DH and DD.

"How on earth did a once civilized country ever get to such a medieval condition."

The West has a an awful lot to answer for here. What with the cold war and Iran's oil we did an awful lot of meddling over there post WW2, and that then lead to the revolution.

So we switched our attention and meddling to focus on Iraq instead, and that didn't go terribly well either.

That in part explains why anti-western views go down so easily in Iran, it's not just nonsense, they have many genuine reasons to distrust what our motivations are. And that kind of thing is then easily manipulated by those in charge of the country.

Sadly I think its too late for anything to be done to save her.

Sometimes I just feel so powerless. Poor woman.

oh god poor woman.

I thought that too scurryfunge - reminded me of that case although this one of course is even worse. Zero chance of a free trial. They are just determined to have her killed, if not because she is a woman who has had sex (possibly), then because they don't wish to be seen to be giving in to international pressure.

I don't believe they'll carry it through they know the implications.

"I don't believe they'll carry it through they know the implications."

What implications?

As Elephants points out Iran now doesn't want to be seen as giving in to international pressure.

And as I've said above the West making a noise about this is in somewhat just confirming the image that the Iranian Government wants the Iranian people to have that us in the west are once again interfering in Iran's internal affairs.

Have signed. Thanks for linking.

Oh - shame on them.

Also shame on Brazil which is reported to be a close ally. They offered asylum - very nice but it doesn't help the issue of stoning at all.

There's been a big worldwide outcry about this and Iran has the view that the more outcry the better - they'll do what they want anyhow.

I pity anyone in that country that has a view that doesn't agree with the state.

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Well they're not stoning her to death anymore so as far as they're concerned they've actually compromised.

Is it not time the Iranian diplomats here are expelled. I understand the UK presence in Iran has been pared down to a minimum - can other countries do the same to their embassadors?

It seems to me that negotiation hasn't worked at all.

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"Is it not time the Iranian diplomats here are expelled"

Unfortunately this Government, and others, have far bigger issues with Iran than the execution of a single person. So it's not going to happen.

And how do you think this country would react if we were punishing a paedophile and a country where sex with 13 years olds was legal started having a go at us. We'd view them as being immoral and interfering in things that have nothing to do with them. You'd see headlines in the Mail saying that the law is the law, the offender broke it knowing what the punishment was and so on and so forth.

In a way this benefits the Iranian Government as they can now turn around to the Iranian people and say "see, those people in the west do interfere with our internal legal affairs, we told you you cannot trust them, we were right!"

All things told a very nasty affair and I can't see it ending anyway but badly.

Badgers - I agree- my point is that it's not good taking a moral ground with Iranian authorities -it winds them up more.

Just like when the US with Bush - the world hated him to the point the Americans voted for him.

I agree with you.

However, I have lots of Iranian friends here who have had major issues with their husbads/wives gaining entry into the country as the UK mission has been downgraded and all applications for visas were routed through other countries which meant confusion and lack of visas. I, for one, would like the same applied to the Iranian authorities here.

Childish yes but how else do you respond to a country like that.