International Pressure Could Prevent Iranian Mother's Stoning, Says Author

Robert Hune-Kalter-Talk Radio News Service

Sakineh Mohammandi Ashtiani could be stoned to death at any moment. This sentence comes after a 2006 court in Iran found the 42 year old mother guilty of adultery.  Ken Timmerman, an author and Executive Director of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran, says the international community has the power to prevent this death sentence.

“The Iranian regime is not a regime of law, it is an arbitrary regime. Anything can happen, in any direction.  The woman could be suddenly acquitted should there be a tremendous amount of international pressure on the regime.  They could acquit her tomorrow,” Timmerman said in an interview with Talk Radio News.

Stoning was reinstated by the Ayatollah in 1979 after the Islamic Revolution.

According to Timmerman, The supporters of stoning in Iran are the hardline supporters of the Islamic regime under Ali Khamenei, the Republic’s supreme leader.

“They are young people, as well as old people.  They are the people who benefit from the regime, predominantly in rural areas, socially conservative areas, and areas of a male dominated society,” Timmerman said.