Oh, Mother, I can see the Noose!

by René | May 23, 2009 at 10:57 am

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Just minutes before they hung her, Delara Darabi made a frantic phone call to her mother.

One wonders why she was allowed to make this call?

It was 7am when Delara Darabi phoned home. "Oh mother, I see the hangman's noose in front of me," she garbled. "They are going to execute me. Please save me." Moments later a prison official snatched the handset away. "We will easily execute your daughter and there's nothing you can do about it," he barked at the parents. Then, with a chilling click, the line went dead.

The desperate couple rushed to the Central Prison in Rasht, Iran, wailing at the guards to let them see their 22-year-old. As they prostrated themselves, an ambulance emerged, most probably with Delara's corpse inside.

"They took Delara to the gallows with nobody around her," Mohammad Mostafaei, one of her lawyers, said in a letter distributed to human rights groups. "They put the rope on her delicate neck. I do not know who the cruel person was to pull the chair from under her feet."

Delara Darabi executed this May Day Morning.

Thankfully Roxanna Sabieri was released and has left the country.

Iran has 130 more children awaiting execution.

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René

at 02:23 on May 24th, 2009

A foreign regime was foisted on Iran. The Ayatollah Khomeini was not even Iranian, with a British father and a Kashmiri Indian mother, and couldn't speak the Persian language (farsi), on top of that the title of ayatollah was given to him to save him from being hanged,

Though I fail to understand why the three men who saved him did it. Khomeini rewarded them with death and house arrest when he came to power. Read all about it on the Iranian Persian Journal. also about the regime: Invaders and Occupiers of Iran.

Now this regime of thugs is holding an election in June. It is shocking to read what happened recently, with ballot boxes arriving at polling stations already half-full of ballots, for example.

René

at 03:13 on May 24th, 2009

Even the story I have linked to lays it all out, if you would follow it.

Who are her murderers? As the son of an Iranian diplomat put it, the people of Iran have become paralyzed, passive, and they allowed it.

If you are aware at all of recent news, you will realize that in the courts of Iran, defendants aren't even allowed to consult with lawyers before trial, present evidence, or have a public trial.

Over 90 people have already been executed this year in Iran.

djsblack

at 16:10 on May 24th, 2009

And the U.N.. and Obama are doing nothing, of course.

Amy Judd

at 11:44 on May 23rd, 2009

I can only think it was to inflict pain on her and her family as how could her mother do anything when it was already so late?

That is really disgusting.

albertacowpoke

at 12:04 on May 23rd, 2009

Thanks for this Rene. I can just imagine her mother now. Now that would be torture.

Norman Maynard (not verified)

at 13:16 on May 23rd, 2009

Who is this person? Who are her murderers? Where did this happen? What crime was she charged with? How old was she? When di this happen?

When did news reporting assume we know all this?

Amy Judd

at 13:54 on May 23rd, 2009

The link to the back story is already in the story above.

Delara Darabi executed in Iran

Art de Rivers

at 16:33 on May 23rd, 2009

Its a disgusting backward country with its cruelty to people being expressed like this ... There's something so primally disgusting about cruelty and mental torture being caused like this too ...

I have to bow my head at such a story ..

Barbara McPherson

at 16:51 on May 23rd, 2009

It looks as if Iran is controlled by thugs.

Nauman Umair Khan

at 03:27 on May 24th, 2009

Complete non-sense, totally insane and brutal!

:'(

Monte (not verified)

at 08:09 on May 24th, 2009

Yes this is sad to have happened; surprising, sadly no. This was terrorism in it's truest form, the rather sick beliefs of a few forced upon the many by the use of fear. For what is more fearful than for parents than the killing of their child and made more so by enforcing the lesson by showing them that they can do nothing. What is even sadder is that nothing can or will be done about this as the persons are part of a recognized government. A government put in place by the citizens of that country in hopes of changing things.

My this young woman find her peace now that eluded her last years.

René

at 09:40 on May 24th, 2009

Yes, but was it 'change they can believe in'? or was it 'Change' to total submission?

Monte (not verified)

at 20:06 on May 25th, 2009

That Rene is a good question and one to which, I doubt, that we will ever know the whole answer. When the people re-elected, did we hope that he would fix things or just do more of the same but leave things no worse? Who knows the answer.

Thanks for the question.