Mohammad Jafar Montazeri is the Prosecutor-General of Iran. He trembles at the news that he has been sanctioned by the mighty James Cleverly. Likewise, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps quakes at the prospect of proscription by the fearsome Suella Braverman.
What presence has that Corps in Britain, anyway? Where? I hereby pitch a feature-length special episode of To the Manor Born, in which the octogenarian, twice-widowed Audrey DeVere had to deal with a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guardsmen who had taken over the Old Lodge at Grantleigh Manor.
Some of us are opposed to capital punishment, and that's that. If you are not, then you do have to accept that it should be the penalty for treason if for nothing else. A former Deputy Minister of Defence of Iran was allowed to move to the United Kingdom around 2008, and to become a British citizen? I mean, come on.
They will have tortured those confessions out of Alireza Akbari, although the people who are most indignant about that were all in favour of things like waterboarding back in the day, and in any case it is hard to doubt that Akbari really was what his accusers said that he was.
If you are against torture, as you should be, then you are against torture. If you are against hanging, as you should be, then you are against hanging. But if you are not, then you are not.
Well said.
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