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Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, 20, was hanged in an Iranian jail on Monday morning. He was convicted of a murder committed in self-defense against a Muslim man, as per a report by a human rights organization.
Apparently, if you're Jewish in Iran you cannot defend yourself against a Muslim. You must either run away if you can, or allow fate to run its course.
Iran Human Rights is a group that monitors human rights abuses by the Islamic regime and they track executions. They reported about the event, saying that Ghahremani was hanged at Kermanshah Central Prison.
In 2022, Iranian police arrested a teenager named Ghahremani, who was 18 at that time, because he was involved in a deadly fight with a Muslim man in Kermanshah.
Ghahremani and those who support him argue that he acted in self-defense. They say the man attacked him with a knife.
Court records show that the fight happened at a gym where Ghahremani was exercising. He was confronted by seven Muslim men, one of whom reportedly owed him money.
One of the attackers, Amir Shokri, stabbed Ghahremani, but Ghahremani took the knife and ended up killing Shokri during the fight.
Still, the local court decided Ghahremani was guilty of murder and sentenced him to death.
There was a chance for Ghahremani to avoid the death penalty through a quirk in Iran's Sharia law. If his family could get the Shokri family to forgive him, the sentence could be dropped.
This May, they tried to delay his execution by offering money to the Shokri family to forgive the crime.
But the Shokri family turned down the offers, and all attempts to get a new trial didn't succeed.
“Jews in the US and other countries raised funds amounting to over $1.5 million, including an offer of an apartment and the building of a mosque in the name of the dead Muslim man,” Beni Sabti, an Iranian-born scholar at the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel told The Jerusalem Post in May.
“It seems that they did not agree.”
In 2022, Iranian police arrested a teenager named Ghahremani, who was 18 at that time, because he was involved in a deadly fight with a Muslim man in Kermanshah.
Ghahremani and those who support him argue that he acted in self-defense. They say the man attacked him with a knife.
Court records show that the fight happened at a gym where Ghahremani was exercising. He was confronted by seven Muslim men, one of whom reportedly owed him money.
One of the attackers, Amir Shokri, stabbed Ghahremani, but Ghahremani took the knife and ended up killing Shokri during the fight.
Still, the local court decided Ghahremani was guilty of murder and sentenced him to death.
There was a chance for Ghahremani to avoid the death penalty through a quirk in Iran's Sharia law. If his family could get the Shokri family to forgive him, the sentence could be dropped.
This May, they tried to delay his execution by offering money to the Shokri family to forgive the crime.
But the Shokri family turned down the offers, and all attempts to get a new trial didn't succeed.
“Jews in the US and other countries raised funds amounting to over $1.5 million, including an offer of an apartment and the building of a mosque in the name of the dead Muslim man,” Beni Sabti, an Iranian-born scholar at the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel told The Jerusalem Post in May.
“It seems that they did not agree.”
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