UPDATE: Toomaj Salehi’s attorney shared on his Twitter feed ” As expected, the Supreme Court avoided an irreparable judicial error. The death sentence #توماج_صالحی was violated and based on the appeal decision of the 39th branch of the Supreme Court, the case will be referred to the parallel branch for consideration. In its detailed ruling, the court branch, in addition to violating the death sentence, has reiterated that even the previous prison sentence (6 years and three months) did not comply with the rules of multiplicity of crimes and is contrary to Article 131 and is in excess of legal punishment.”

We will keep watch on the next update relating the appeal decision for this case.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/middleeast/toomaj-salehi-death-sentence-iran-intl/index.html

It seems appropriate to recognize this Iranian rapper, in a sad sort of way, for demonstrating that freedoms taken for granted here in the USA are not protected in places the campus protestors appear to support.

While the life expectancy of Toomaj Salehi may not be very long, Molière Citations awards a celebration of his life for his protest against tyranny in Iran.

It’s ironic that the regime in Iran encourages protestors on college campuses in the US, while imposing the death penalty upon a rapper in their own country.

If Ronald Reagan were alive today, first of all, we wouldn’t be playing footsie with the violent and oppressive mullahs in Iran.  But he would probably be telling a variation on his famous story about freedom to criticize national leaders.

It went something like this: Reagan told Gorbachev that under the US Constitution anyone is free to criticize the President of the United States.  Gorbachev’s rejoinder was that under the Soviet laws, anyone is also free to criticize the President of the United States.

Where are all the protestors against the repressive regime in Iran?