By Jeremy Reynalds
Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
IRAN (ANS) -- Iranian authorities recently secretly executed a Jewish-Armenian couple along with one women and two other men. It’s unknown what they were charged with.
The dawn execution was on March 14.
That’s according to a story from the Iranian Christian News Agency “Mohabat News,” who talked with human rights activists in Iran.
Mohabat News said Adiva Mirza Soleiman Kalimi was Jewish Iranian, and her husband, Varoujan Petrosian, was an Armenian Iranian. The identities of the other individuals remain unknown.
Mohabat News said the families of the victims asked authorities to return the bodies of their loved ones so they could be buried according to their cultural and religious customs. However, they received threats of arrest for doing so from agents of the Ministry of Intelligence
Mohabat News said while a division court of the Revolutionary Court, located inside the Evin prison, confirmed the execution, it refused to provide further details about what happened to the prisoner’s bodies.
For more information about Mohabat News go to www.mohabatnews.com
Jeremy Reynalds is Senior Correspondent for the ASSIST News Service, a freelance writer and also the founder and CEO of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in intercultural education from Biola University in Los Angeles. His newest book is "Homeless in the City."
Additional details on "Homeless in the City" are available at http://www.homelessinthecity.com. Reynalds lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information contact: Jeremy Reynalds at jeremyreynalds@comcast.net.
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