What is the standing of stoning in the Iranian government’s policy?
Judicial spokesmen often give contradictory statements, saying that the Islamic Republic of Iran does not stone people and that such an accusation is a propaganda tool used by the West to degrade Islam. At the same time, however, they defend stoning as part of their laws, reject the accusation that stoning is a human rights abuse, and aver that the Iranian judicial system has a right and duty to implements its own laws and regulations free from foreign intervention. Despite such statements, many government officials in Iran are aware of how the issue is embarrassing their country. In fact, many political and religious figures call for the repeal of the stoning law because they argue that stoning attributes to “vahne Islam”, or the degradation of Islam. In other words, stoning leads to the embarrassment of Islam and the Islamic Republic. The newly proposed draft of the Islamic Penal Code of Iran contains provisions for annulling stoning sentences when the execution of such a sentence wo
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