EU says alarmed by rise in death sentences in Iran

Reuters ^ | Wed May 30, 2012 10:22am EDT | (Reporting by Justyna Pawlak; Additional reporting by Marcus George in Dubai)

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The European Union criticized Iran on Wednesday for an "alarming" increase in the use of the death penalty this year, calling on Tehran to introduce a moratorium on executions.

"According to the latest data, compiled from a number of sources, the rate of executions in Iran during the first 5 months of 2012 confirmed the country as one of the world's leading users of the death penalty," a spokesman for the EU's foreign policy chief said.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is "deeply concerned by the alarming increase", the spokesman said.

Ashton is leading negotiations between six global powers and Iran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, hoping to resolve a decade-long dispute over international suspicions that Tehran seeks the means to make atom bombs. Tehran denies this. …

Tehran has repeatedly faced accusations of human rights abuses related to its high rate of use of the death penalty. …

In May, Iranian media said 15 people were hanged—14 who faced charges of drug trafficking and a man said by Tehran to be an agent of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. …

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Wrong thing to criticize Iran about, i.e. just the death penalty alone; the phony EUSSR criticizes the USA on this.

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The EU should psend more time on its collapsing economy AND the rise of its OWN Muslim population there.

The EU shows that even idiots can form an international organization. (Or did the UN prove that years ago?)

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Muslims killing muslims?

I’m not seeing the downside here.

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The UN proved that Marxism can only cause widespread poverty, just like Churchill said years ago—the “equal sharing of misery” in his words.

As for the EU, the elites that run it are a bunch of fanatics that think that Charlemagne is the greatest thing since sliced bread. The economic thingy is strictly for the purpose of gaining more power for the elite class, and of course to weaken who they see as enemies (the USA being chief among them, don’t be fooled).

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No, it’s generally not Muslims, and in cases where it is, they would be considered “apostate” anyhow.

Assuming the accused Mossad agent was indeed such, would he have been a Muslim?

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EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is

...the defending champion of the Upper Class Twit of the Year title (with apologies to Monty Python).