Extraordinary photo of brave Iranian smiling broadly with a noose round his neck

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Extraordinary photo of brave Iranian smiling broadly with a noose round his neck moments before his execution for killing a notorious 'hanging judge' resurfaces after guard shot dead two supreme court justices reviled for condemning protestors to death

Daily Mail
By TARYN PEDLER
19 January 2025

An incredible image of a brave Iranian smiling with a noose around his neck moments before being hanged has resurfaced after two supreme court justices were shot dead.

The photograph of Majid Kavousifar, 28, captures the man's final moments before execution after he and his nephew Hossein were convicted of the murder of Judge Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi.




Majid and Hossein Kavousifar were both publicly executed by hanging in central Tehran in August 2007.

Moghaddasi was one of several judges of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court allegedly responsible for the mass execution of political dissidents in 1988.

As Judge Moghaddasi was leaving a court building in Tehran on August 2, 2005, an assailant on a motorcycle shot the judge twice with a pistol, killing him.

That assailant was later identified as Majid Kavousifar.

After murdering Moghadassi, Majid escaped from Iran to the UAE where he pleaded the US embassy for refugee status - but the embassy surrendered him to Emirati police where he was then extradited to Iran.

The extraordinary images circulating online show Majid's public hanging in front of the Ershad Judiciary Complex. At the time, the Kavousifars' hangings were the first public executions carried out in Tehran in five years.

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