Iranian soccer player
Amir Nasr-Azadani is reportedly set to be executed for
his role in the protests that first swept through the country earlier this fall, an exile rights group said Tuesday.
Mr. Nasr-Azadani was one of the men accused of killing a colonel in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as well as two members of the morality police in late November,
according to British-based news outlet IranWire.
The
Tehran regime, which has tried to crack down after months of popular protests, intends to hang him for a crime it calls “moharebeh,” which translates to “waging war against God,” according to the watchdog group Iran Human Rights, which has been sharply critical of
Iran‘s theocratic government.
The state-run Tasnim news agency first reported that the colonel and officers of the widely disliked morality police were killed on Nov. 17 in the city of Isfahan. Asadullah Jafari, the city’s chief justice, charged Mr. Nasr-Azadani with being part of an “armed group” who killed the three security officers, state news agency IRNA said Sunday.