Association of Iranian-Americans Enraged at Iranian Government's Executions

Protesting spiritedly but peacefully outside the United Nations building in New York City on Friday, members from the New York branch of the Association of Iranian-Americans (AIA) expressed their anger at the spate of executions taking place under the clerically-driven regime of President Ahmadinejad in Iran.

According to Amnesty International, in the two years of Ahmadinejad's presidency 139 Iranians have been executed, with an additional 450 death sentences issued so far in 2007 alone.

The AIA members present were Iranian exiles who had fled their homeland to escape the tyranny of the current regime.

Iran has maintained an extremely hardline stance in its dealings with other nations who are not fundamentalist Islamic states as well as its own citizenry, and that nation's government will not tolerate any dissension, according to all reports. News sources say that just in the last few weeks alone, there have been dozens of people executed on a host of charges including rape, drug trafficking, and murder among other felonies.

Western critics have scorned Iran's method of justice as showing no signs of due process or fair trials, and death sentences are all too easily handed out and all too quickly carried out. This week there was actually a public hanging of two men in a public square in Tehran, the Iranian capital.

Reports are that while the Iranian government claims that it is trying to crack down on drug smugglers and criminal violence, the law enforcement agencies there have been increasingly going after journalists, students, intellectuals, and even women who dare to openly criticize the government or call for a more Western-inspired way of being ruled.