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Jewish Woman and Her Husband Executed in Iran for Unknown Reasons

JTA

A Jewish woman and her Armenian Christian husband were executed in Iran for undisclosed reasons, a top State Department official said.

Michael Posner, the assistant secretary of state for human rights, testified Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Iran’s human rights.

Posner said human rights in the Islamic Republic had deteriorated in the first part of 2011. He listed as examples mass executions; the killing of protesters in Tehran and among ethnic Arabs; harsh prison sentences for Baha’i leaders; tough prison conditions for political detainees; and that “a Jewish woman and her Armenian-Christian husband were reportedly executed based on undisclosed charges.”

He did not name the couple.

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11 Comments

  • Milhouse

    What a stupid question. Presumably she was born there, and was from there, and where else would she live?

  • HYD!

    BDE!! she may have been involved in negative things, but she’s a yud- i hope the husband (who prob dragged her into it) and the exectuioner are rotting! n’eNow!

  • why was she livinh there?

    FYI, thre are approx. 30,000 Yidden living in Iran!!
    She was one of them, DUH!

  • Haman Ahmadinejad

    They could have been involved or falsely judged of being involved in a plot against the regime. If she was so assimilated as to be married to a non-Jew, I doubt she was executed for anything Jewish.

    The last time a Jewish woman in Iran married out, she managed to get rid of the Ahmadinejad of her days :))))))))))))))!

  • go-d-s right hand man

    most likely because of their religious roots and their lack of religion in a place where religion is everything
    the embassy shoulda advised them to convert too islam