Tue 05 July 2022:
The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been charged with blasphemy and spreading anti-government propaganda online by Iran’s judiciary.
“The indictment… has been issued and referred to the court on the charges of propaganda activity against the system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and blasphemy,” Tehran’s chief prosecutor Ali Salehi said, according to the judiciary’s website Mizan Online.
Faezeh Hashemi (59), the daughter of the former president is a former lawmaker and women’s rights activist. Charges against her are connected to comments reportedly made by her in an audio debate on social media in April this year.
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According to the local media, Hashemi said that Iran’s demand for Revolutionary Guards to be removed from a US terror list was “damaging” to the country’s “national interest”. The Revolutionary Guards are ideological arm of Iran’s military.
Removal of the Guards from the terror list is a key sticking point in negotiations to revive 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
In January this year, Hashemi said Iran has been involved in killing some 500,000 people in Syria. Pointing out Iran’s involvement in killing Muslims in Yemen and elsewhere, she said it is highly unlikely that Israel has killed 100 to 200 thousands Palestinians. “We have killed more Muslims than Israel with our wrong policies,” she said.
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She is reported to have called Khadija a “businesswoman”, showing that women can also engage in economic activity, and whose money the prophet spent.
She later said the comments had been a “joke… without any intention of causing insult”, state news agency IRNA reported.
The late Hashemi’s father was a moderate who favored closer connections with the West and the US.
She was found guilty in 2012 and given a six-month prison term for “propaganda against the Islamic republic.”
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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