Hanged for 'waging war against God': Iran publicly executes two men after they posted YouTube clip of themselves committing an armed robbery

They were tried through YouTube and hanged by remote control as hundreds captured their agonising last moments on mobile phones.

But though the deaths of Alireza Mafiha and Mohammad Ali Sarvari had all the accoutrements of the 21st century, the essence of their executions was medieval.
The pair, executed for robbery, were paraded before a baying crowd of 300 in a public park at the centre of the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Shocking: Iranians witness the public execution of Alireza Mafiha and Mohammad Ali Sarvari in Tehran. The two men posted a video on YouTube in December showing them robbing and assaulting a man with a machete

Alireza Mafiha (second left) leans his head on the shoulder of a security officer moments before he was executed alongside Mohammad Ali Sarvari (second right)

Execution: Masked executioners place the noose around Mohammad Ali Sarvari's neck (left). Seconds later both he was dead along with accomplice Alireza Mafiha (right) in a very public display by Iran's hardline government

 

 

 Amid the howls of grief and rage, a judge recounted their crime and delivered the verdict, that they would be hanged for ‘waging war against God.’ 
 

Sarvari seemed stoical. But the desperate Mafiha broke down and laid his head on the shoulder of a balaclava-clad Iranian police officer who put an arm around his back.
Moments later nooses were looped around their necks as a group of women at the front of the crowd begged their captors for forgiveness.
Their pleas fell on deaf ears. As the sun came up on Sunday morning, the executioners pressed the buttons to trigger their deaths.

Alireza Mafiha and Mohammad Ali Sarvari were hanged after a YouTube video (pictured) was aired on Iranian state television showing them attacking a man

 

 

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