Iran hangs ten on Christmas Eve

by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

Iran hangs ten on Christmas Eve

Unfortunately, that’s not a surfing reference. While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got a television platform in the UK to pass along a propaganda message to the West on how to celebrate a holiday his nation abhors, the Iranians celebrated by playing Christmas Tree with ten prisoners:

Norway deplores the executions of 10 persons in Iran on
Christmas Eve. Prior to the executions Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere
appealed to Iran to stop in time and not go ahead with the executions.
…

Last week Norway aligned itself with an EU declaration on
the mass executions in Tehran’s Evin Prison on 26 November and other repeated
violations of human rights that have taken place in Iran
lately.

The Government is concerned about the human rights
situation in Iran in general. Two days ago the Iranian authorities closed
the Center for Defence of Human Rights in Tehran, The centre was established and
headed by the Iranian lawyer and human rights defender Shirin Ebadi, who was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.

Legal Insurrection reminds us of Ahmadinejad’s exhortations to the West on the proper celebration of Christmas:

On Christmas Day, British television Channel 4 provided
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a platform to broadcast “an alternative Christmas message on British television to rival Queen Elizabeth II’s annual address.” In the message, Ahmadinejad said that “if Christ were on Earth today, undoubtedly
he would hoist the banner of justice and love for humanity to oppose warmongers,
occupiers, terrorists and bullies the world over.” The speech received
widespread media attention.

Undoubtedly, He would — and Ahmadinejad and his terrorist regime would qualify under all four categories.

Interestingly, no global news agencies bothered to cover the Christmas Eve hangings, despite the worldwide attention focused on Ahmadinejad’s Christmas message. Nor has there been any significant coverage of the Christmas week closing of the human-rights center that belied Ahmadinejad’s holiday message. It seems as though the media only has an interest in acting as a repeater station for tyrants rather than hold them accountable for their actions.