Read connected to spot the striking picture
- Published: 16:25, 19 Jan 2025
- Updated: 16:25, 19 Jan 2025
A PHOTO showing the unthinkable last moments of a man's beingness has resurfaced - arsenic helium grins conscionable moments earlier helium is executed.
The photograph of Iranian Majid Kavousifar, 28, captures the singular grin helium gave with a noose astir his neck, seconds earlier his hanging successful August 2007.
Along with his nephew Hossein, helium was convicted of the execution of Judge Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi successful August 2005.
The photos shows Majid smiling and waving his manus astatine someone, who reports suggest is his nephew.
He continues to clasp up his manus successful that presumption adjacent arsenic helium is dilatory raised successful the aerial to beryllium suffocated to decease successful cardinal Tehran.
His reported past words to police officers were: "I reached the constituent astatine which I decided to eradicate immoderate injustice."
One photograph of the chilling lawsuit does amusement Majid with a much stoic look, arsenic his executioners tighten the enactment astir his neck.
The resurfaced moments are besides captured alongside a young miss successful a pink tracksuit, watching connected without look arsenic Majid is killed successful beforehand of her eyes.
In August 2005, Majid rode connected a motorcycle whilst shooting and sidesplitting Judge Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi.
After the murder, Majid escaped from Iran to the UAE wherever helium pleaded the US embassy for exile status.
The embassy surrendered him to constabulary and helium was extradited backmost to Iran.
At the time, the execution of Majid and Hossein were the archetypal nationalist executions carried retired successful Tehran successful 5 years.
Judge Masoud was 1 of respective judges of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court allegedly liable for the wide execution of governmental dissidents successful 1988.
TWO JUDGES KILLED
This comes arsenic 2 seasoned Iranian Supreme Court judges were killed yesterday by an assailant, who aboriginal took his ain life.
Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, 68, and Judge Ali Razini, 71, were changeable successful a "planned assassination" successful Tehran.
Letter from Iranian governmental captive Saeed Masouri
Reports accidental that the incidental is being treated arsenic an enactment of terrorism.
The 2 men were known for moving precocious illustration cases "fighting crimes against nationalist security, espionage and terrorism".
The judiciary's Mizan Online website said: "This morning, a gunman infiltrated the Supreme Court successful a planned enactment of assassination of 2 brave and experienced judges.
"The 2 judges were martyred successful the act."
A motive down the daze sidesplitting was not instantly wide but Mizan said the assailant was not progressive successful immoderate cases earlier the Supreme Court.
No further details connected the attacker's individuality were released but Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian urged an investigation instrumentality spot into the daze shooting.
Pezeshkian said: "I powerfully impulse the information and law enforcement forces to instrumentality the indispensable measures arsenic soon arsenic imaginable by examining the dimensions and angles of this reprehensible enactment and to place its perpetrators."
Both of these men had faced allegations of miscount whilst moving successful the country.
Moghisseh has had a rocky past with the West arsenic helium was sanctioned by the EU successful 2011 and by the United States successful 2019.
The US Department of the Treasury accused him of having "overseen countless unfair trails, during which charges went unsubstantiated and grounds was disregarded".
Iran's executions
by Emma Parry, Senior Reporter
THE Sun has exclusively reported connected the "unprecedented numbers" of executions taking spot successful Iran.
It was said that executions are taking spot each mates of hours arsenic the "paranoid" authorities lashes retired successful the aftermath of defeats against its proxies to Israel.
Shocking grounds - including authoritative figures and letters from decease enactment prisoners - gathered by The Sun exposes that Iran's killing instrumentality is liable for implicit 3 quarters of the full world's executions.
On New Year's Day alone, astatine slightest 12 radical were hanged successful prisons crossed the country.
The grim toll includes women, children and governmental prisoners - often sentenced to decease without immoderate respect to a just proceedings oregon owed process.
Behzad Naziri, a erstwhile governmental captive of the regime, who managed to flight from 1 of Iran's astir notorious prisons, has told The Sun however the "unprecedented surge" successful executions is simply a "sign of the weakness of a authorities connected the verge of being overthrown".
Naziri, a subordinate of the NCRI's overseas committee, whose ain sister was executed, said: "The unprecedented fig of executions indicates that the authorities is so becoming increasingly
paranoid.
"These actions are a hopeless effort by Khamenei to suppress immoderate dissent and support power amid increasing unrest and demands for authorities change.
"We indispensable carnivore successful caput that this authorities has kept its grip on
power done repression and executions astatine home, and coercion and warmongering abroad, chiefly done its proxies.
"Being the world’s grounds holder for the fig of executions per capita is not a motion of strength; it indicates a nonaccomplishment to quell dissent contempt its brutal behavior.
"Therefore, the unprecedented surge successful executions, similar with each dictators, shows that this authorities is besides connected its past limb and sees nary aboriginal for its regularisation successful the look of increasing opposition.
"The inhumane execution of its populace nether immoderate pretext is lone a motion of the weakness of a authorities connected the verge of being overthrown."
Of the 1,000 executed successful 2024, 34 were women and 7 were nether 18 astatine the clip of their crime.
Razini held respective important positions successful Iran's judiciary and has been the target of assassination attempts successful the past.
In 1998, helium survived an assassination effort aft a weaponry was attached to his vehicle.
Razini had been accused of being 1 of the judges progressive successful the infamous “Death Commission” committee.
The committee was liable for overseeing the tragic prosecution and execution of thousands of governmental prisoners successful 1988.
Iran has faced different instances of people unit successful the past.
A Shiite Muslim preacher was changeable dormant successful the confederate metropolis of Kazeroun aft starring Friday prayers, successful October.