There's a statement out by Rafsanjani. Unfortunately I haven't seen a translation yet.
And Huff Post blog reports
Iran scraps certain punishments. Strange timing, I'd say. "Iran's parliament plans to scrap stoning and amputation of a hand as punishments in a revised version of the Islamic penal code, the official IRNA news agency reported Monday."
Yeah, gotta agree. Sounds like strange timing. the source post quotes:
"Parliaments judicial commission decided not to put some Islamic punishments including stoning in the (revised) law in line with the interests of the country,"
So this basically puts the lie to their interpretation of Sharia. It's not a Qu'ran dictated punishment, but a legal and political expediency.
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