Iran dissident leader sentenced to 8 years in prison for ‘acts against national security’
Washington Post / Associated Press
28-Dec-2011 (one comment)

TEHRAN, Iran — A lawyer says an ailing dissident, once Iran’s foreign minister, has been sentenced to eight years in prison and deprived of civil rights for five years.

Ebrahim Yazdi was convicted of acting against national security by Iran’s hard-line Revolutionary Court, which deals with security and political crimes.

 Yazdi is 80 and suffers from cancer and a heart ailment.

Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, Yazdi’s lawyer, told The Associated Press Wednesday that he has appealed the sentence. Yazdi is free for the meantime.

Yazdi’s Freedom Movement of Iran opposes Iran’s clerical rule. The party played a key role in the 1979 Islamic revolution but turned against the clerics as they consolidated power and crushed dissent. It rejects violence and advocates democratic reform.

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Simorgh5555

The devil's chicken coming to roost!

by Simorgh5555 on Wed Dec 28, 2011 02:50 PM PST

Yazdi, the traitor and one of the chief architect and butchers of the revolution is getting his ass thrown into a slammer. You reap what you sow, Fat boy! 

Repent and renounce your sins before you die, you nasty old man! 

Prey for forgivenemess before you die. Accpept your crimes against Iran and the evil you beset on a whole generation of Irans. 

DEATH TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC.

CONDEMN IT. FIGHT IT. DESTROY IT.  



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