The Jerusalem Post reports: “Asghar Jahangir, the Islamic regime’s judiciary spokesperson, claimed on Sunday that some protesters had committed actions ‘identified as Mohareb,’ a crime punishable by death in Iran.

Jahangir threatened that the ‘severest punishment’ would be reserved for those found guilty of the charge.

Mohareb, meaning to wage war against God, involves the use of weapons to create fear and breach public security under the regime’s law. Those tried with this crime appear before Iran’s Revolutionary Courts, in sessions usually not open to the public or media, rather than standard courts where surveillance is easier.

While stemming from Islamic law, state killing over the charge of Mohareb paused for many years after the regime cemented its control in the early 1980s, following the 1979 Islamic Revolution…”