May 20, 2022
Faezeh Hashemi, 59, daughter of the late President Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, is to be prosecuted for supporting US sanctions on the Pasdaran.
Judiciary spokesman Zabihollah Khodaian said May 10 that a case over her recent remarks had been brought by the prosecutor general.
Hardliners had been demanding her prosecution. The Fars news agency, which is affiliated with the Pasdaran, said a petition for her to be prosecuted collected more than 50,000 signatures.
Speaking on the social audio app Clubhouse, Faezeh had said the government’s continued demands that the Pasdaran be removed from the US list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, which have been repeatedly rebuffed by the Americans, was “damaging” to the country’s “national interests” and Iran should move on to other outstanding questions.
The Judiciary spokesman also said Faezeh would be prosecuted for insulting the Prophet.
In a video posted separately on social media, Hashemi had said that Khadija, wife of the Prophet Mohammed, was “a businesswoman,” but added with a smile that the Prophet went on to “waste the money” belonging to his wife.
It was “a joke … without any intention of causing insult,” she later said, the state news agency IRNA reported.
Hashemi was arrested and sentenced to six months in jail in 2012 on charges of “propaganda against the Islamic republic.” She emerged from the sentence even more outspoken.
