'Hanging Judge’ loses position
NZPA-Reuter Nicosia Iran’s “Hanging Judge,” Hojatoleslam Sadeq Khalkhali, was replaced yesterday as head of Parliament’s foreign affairs committee. The official news agency, 1.R.N.A., reporting an annual election for the post, said it went to Saeed Rajaei Khorasani, a deputy from Teheran and former chief of the Islamic Republic’s mission at the United Nations. Mr Khalkhali horrified Western opinion in 1980 by his macabre gloating at a news conference over the charred bodies of American servicemen killed in a helicopter crash during an unsuccessful bid to rescue hostages from the United States Embassy in Teheran.
He was Iran’s best known and most ruthless Islamic judge in the early years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution, sending hundreds of supporters of the ousted Shah, members of the Leftist opposition and drug dealers to the gallows or the firing squad.
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