Iran executes a Jewish citizen convicted of murder following a dispute over money

Iran has executed a Jewish national convicted of murdering different man pursuing a personification dispute

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran connected Monday executed a Jewish national convicted of murdering different man successful 2022 pursuing a personification dispute, reports said. It was a rare lawsuit of an execution of personnel of a belief number successful nan predominately Muslim nation.

Mizanonline.ir, a website affiliated pinch Iran's judiciary, said 23-year-old Arvin Ghahremani was put to decease aft nan country’s Supreme Court affirmed nan superior reward handed down successful nan lawsuit earlier past year.

The study quoted Hamid Reza Karimi, nan charismatic of nan occidental metropolis of Kermanshah, arsenic saying nan tribunal and nan convicted man’s lawyers and relatives had grounded to person nan victim’s family to abstain from qisas — an enactment nether Islamic penal codification that calls for akin punishment, aliases an “eye for an eye” — and efficaciously pardon his killer.

The victim’s sanction was not provided.

According to nan report, Ghahramani attacked nan unfortunate extracurricular a gym successful Kermanshah successful 2022 and stabbed nan man respective times pursuing a conflict complete money he had loaned nan victim.

Jewish citizens are a mini number successful nan state of 85 million. In 1999, Iran arrested 13 Jewish citizens, accusing them of spying for Israel and sentenced respective to up to 4 years successful prison.

Many Jews fled nan state aft nan 1979 Islamic Revolution and existent estimates propose immoderate 20,000 Jews stay successful Iran. Shiite Muslims dress up astir of Iran's organization and nan constitution is led by hard-line clerics who preach a strict type of Islam.