A New Wrinkle in Iranian Stoning Sentence

The Holy See is stepping into the humanitarian cause of a woman who is becoming a public memorial of muslim brutality against women in Iran.

The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.

In its first public statement on the case, which has attracted worldwide attention, the Vatican decried stoning as a particularly brutal form ofcapital punishment.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the Catholic church opposes the death penalty in general.

It is unclear what chances any Vatican bid would have to persuade the Muslim nation to spare the woman's life. 

In response to all the appeals gumming up carrying out the sentence of their kangaroo courts, a mistake made by irresponsible journalists have won Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani  a new sentence of 99 lashes .

An Iranian woman who had faced death by stoning for adultery has now received a new sentence of 99 lashes after a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman's son said Monday.

There was no official confirmation of the new sentence. The son, Sajjad Qaderzadeh, 22, said he did not know whether the new lashing sentence had been carried out yet, but heard about it from a prisoner who had recently left the detention facility where his mother is being held.

The lawyer who once represented Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in Iran said from Paris that the situation was not clear.

"Publishing the photo provided a judge an excuse to sentence my poor mother to 99 lashes on the charge of taking a picture unveiled," Qaderzadeh told The Associated Press.

The Times of London said in its Monday edition it had apologized for the photo, but added that the new sentence "is simply a pretext."

"The regime's purpose is to make Ms. Ashtiani suffer for an international campaign to save her that has exposed so much iniquity," said the piece. 

I hope they leave a hole in the ground in downtown Manhattan for 'religion of peace' to carry out sentences in America.

Wait a minute...maybe they can kill two birds with one stone and walk down a few blocks and use the hole in the ground they made on September 11th.