Saeed Kamali Deghani’s 2010 Guardian article about a woman executed in Iran played a significant role in setting the anti-Iran narrative of the following years. Titled “Iranian facing stoning speaks: ‘It’s because I’m a woman’”, Deghani’s “exclusive interview” relayed Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s accusation that the Iranian court was lying about charges of adultery and murder. The article said that the charges were made up.
Mina Ahadi is a communist Iranian exile who serves on the committee of Atheist Alliance International. She presumably has little reason to want to help the image of Iran’s Islamic Republic. But she has posted a screenshot of Deghani’s confession. In the accompanying caption, she says that Deghani had already confessed to her in 2010, and that he had begged her not to expose him in case he was sacked and sent back to Iran.
Is www.thecanary.co a reputable source? the article is making too many claims and no sources. not even link to the article that “the guradian didn’t delete”
It’s an opinion post attributed to “skwawkbox”, no actual author. The main source of the article is a post on Facebook, which cites a screenshot of what looks like an Instagram story.
The Guardian article is the first or second link in this story, but it’s an archive.org link. Here’s a live link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/06/sakineh-mohammadi-ashtiani-iran-interview
Yes it’s very reputable. Unlike TheGuardian they don’t make up articles. You could have simply searched the title than write a long comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/06/sakineh-mohammadi-ashtiani-iran-interview
The screenshot was a bit confusing. I thought the admission of lying was part of the guardian article which I now realize it clearly isn’t.
Seems the guys has returned to Iran since 2026 which is around the same time that admonition surfaced.
Much of the concern among activists is rooted in the Islamic Republic’s long-standing approach of pressuring returning individuals to act as informants. The case of Kianoosh Sanjari, an Iranian-American journalist who faced repeated pressure from intelligence agencies after returning to Iran and later took his own life in November 2024, is often cited as a stark example of the risks tied to the state’s security system for those who go back.
https://iranwire.com/en/news/151675-activists-alarmed-as-ex-guardian-journalist-reappears-in-iran/
The admission is not surprising, the surprising part is that he had returned to Iran at all.
Between 2013 and 2014, he also worked with IranWire.
Just FIY almost every English site with 'Iran" in its title are paid US propaganda think thanks. Iranwire is no exception. Just pure US propaganda slop of people making up stuff and the medium publishing everything uncritically.
Of course they have to write some bad excuse of why he returned and came clean. The biggest problem with Iranwire is this part from TheCanaray’s article.
But she (Mina Ahadi) has posted a screenshot of Deghani’s confession. In the accompanying caption, she says that Deghani had already confessed to her in 2010, and that he had begged her not to expose him in case he was sacked and sent back to Iran.
Which means even the accomplice says he CONFIRMED to have been lying all the way back in 2010 but he was afraid to be thrown away by the US propaganda machine and sent back to Iran if she outed him (at least that’s the excuse)
The Guardian has not deleted its article. The UK government, and its media allies, continue to support the illegal and murderous US-Israel war on Iran, even as Iran’s defence threatens to plunge the globe into economic ruin and Trump escalates sanctions and threatens nuclear strikes because he is unable to defeat it.
