US/Iran: Strange Bedfellows
Thank the gods that Iran has not excecuted Makvan Mouloodzadeh. He, however might need to be refugeed to a safer country after this case (accused of sodomy that happened when he was 13 years old).
As I read the article “Iranian spared from excecution” on MSNBC.COM, the following jumped out at me that I wasn’t expecting:
“Iran leads the world in executing children,” Human Rights Watch said in a summer press release that charged the nation with putting to death at least 17 juvenile offenders since the beginning of 2004, “eight times more than in any other country in the world.”
That’s right folks. USA settles for second place, bested only by Iran in killing its juveniles. The gods do in fact have a warped sense of humor.
