A man walks past a mural painting of Iranian flags in a street in Tehran on Oct. 26, 2024.Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images

Iran reportedly executes Jewish man for fatal stabbing

The U.S. special envoy on antisemitism had expressed concerns that the man was not receiving a fair trial because he was Jewish

by · National Post

Authorities in Iran on Monday executed a Jewish man, Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani, who had been sentenced to death for murder, Iranian media reported.

“The sentence of retribution was executed this morning,” said Hamidreza Karimi, the prosecutor for Kermanshah in western Iran, according to the Mehr news agency.

According to one version of events, in November 2022, seven men, including Amir Shokri, a non-Jewish man who owed money to Ghahremani, then 18, ambushed him at a gym. Shokri pulled a knife on Ghahremani and an altercation ensued, resulting in Shokri’s death.

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