TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme court has overturned a death sentence against popular rapper Toomaj Salehi who was jailed for backing nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, his lawyer said Saturday.
“Salehi’s death sentence was overturned,” the rapper’s lawyer Amir Raisian said in a post on X, adding that the supreme court had ordered a retrial.
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Iran supreme court overturns rapper Salehi’s death sentence: lawyer
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Iran supreme court overturns rapper Salehi’s death sentence: lawyer
- Popular rapper Toomaj Salehi was jailed for backing nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death
Iran president says Khamenei killing ‘declaration of war against Muslims’
- Masoud Pezeshkian says avenging the killing of the supreme leader was a right and obligation of the Islamic republic
TEHRAN: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that the killing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US and Israeli strikes was a “declaration of war against Muslims.”
“The assassination of the highest political authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a prominent leader of Shiism worldwide … is perceived as an open declaration of war against Muslims, and particularly against Shiites, everywhere in the world,” Pezeshkian said in a statement carried by state TV.
Pezeshkian said that avenging the killing of the supreme leader was a right and obligation of the Islamic republic.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers it its legitimate duty and right to avenge the perpetrators and masterminds of this historic crime,” said Pezeshkian.
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