The Daily Telegraph wrote in an article that the most brutal suppression the Iranian regime is adopting is a desperate attempt to keep his embattled regime in power.

Titled as” Iran’s Hangmen Work Overtime to Silence Opposition”, the article says:” The most visible manifestation of the new oppression sweeping Iran has been the wave of public executions and floggings carried out in Teheran and provincial capitals over recent weeks in a blatant attempt by the regime to intimidate political opponents. The official government line is that the punishments are part of its “Plan to Enforce Moral Behaviour.

“It’s the same kind of argument that was used immediately after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took control to purge the country of its prosperous, secular middle class and secure his hold on power. Now Mr Ahmadinejad is adopting similar tactics in a desperate attempt to keep his embattled regime in power.”

The Daily Telegraph added: ” Although Iran has one of the world’s highest execution rates, until recently most of the sentences were carried out within the confines of prisons such a Teheran’s notorious Evin complex. But this month diplomats at the Japanese and Australian embassies in the capital were alarmed to find the bodies of two convicted criminals hanging from cranes stationed directly outside their office windows.

“The location of the cranes, at a busy thoroughfare surrounded by office blocks, was chosen as much to remind the diplomatic community that Mr Ahmadinejad’s hardline regime was still very much in charge as to send a message to ordinary citizens.”
The daily Telegraph added:” However much the authorities insist the sentences relate only to their campaign to improve public morals, Western diplomats in Teheran believe many of the victims have been singled out for their participation in the anti-government fuel riots that erupted in late June.”