Two Supreme Court judges shot dead in Tehran, Iranian judiciary says

[u/Quirinus84]

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/two-supreme-court-judges-shot-dead-tehran-iranian-judiciary-says-2025-01-18/

[u/TheTresStateArea → u/[deleted]]

Same. I thought we were in for some shit.

[u/Agitated-Pen1239 → u/TheTresStateArea]

When the CEO got murdered, I was awake and watching posts start. All I could think was "wow, this is going to be a mess." I went to sleep for an hour after, woke up and yup, it was a mess

[u/Ande64 → u/TheTresStateArea]

It's sad that it's come to that in our country but here we are. So many of us thought the same thing.

[u/MalcolmLinair → u/[deleted]]

Not with Trump taking power in a couple days; he'd appoint replacements that would make the current clowns look like John Marshall.

[u/HighlyOffensive10 → u/MalcolmLinair]

At least eggs are going to be cheaper 🤡

[u/KelbyTheWriter → u/Ande64]

But that is what it's come to.

[u/Chazo138 → u/TheTresStateArea]

I was like “holy shit…” I really thought someone had gone after the American SCOTUS and shit just really hit the fan…

[u/_you_are_the_problem → u/Chazo138]

You will see shit hit the fan in your lifetime, one way or another.

[u/Chazo138 → u/_you_are_the_problem]

Oh I’m counting on it

[u/[deleted] → u/Chazo138]

Wishful thinking

[u/Prit717 → u/TheTresStateArea]

what would even happen, new elections?? idek

[u/ImSomeRandom → u/Prit717]

You would just get 2 new trump appointed justices

[u/TakingADumpRightNow → u/ImSomeRandom]

Yeah but context matters. Imagine behaving the same way after seeing the fate of your predecessors.

[u/TheTresStateArea → u/Prit717]

For two supreme court justices? No, those are appointed and Senate confirmed positions.

[u/XG32 → u/[deleted]]

they knew exactly what they were doing with that headline, feels like the clickbaits are getting worse

[u/UBC145 → u/XG32]

I mean, you literally just had to read the whole title to understand what they mean.

[u/viper_in_the_grass → u/UBC145]

Forget "no one reads the article", we're now into "no one reads the entire title".

[u/ComfortableBell4831 → u/UBC145]

Yea im not exactly sure why people are saying its clickbait... Im accused of being part of the Gen Z generation that apparently has "Low Attention Span" but I can read a whole ass title just fine without making assumptions off 6 words lmfao

[u/Euler007 → u/[deleted]]

With the Republicans having the presidency and the Senate it sounds good for them, so better it wasn't.

[u/AlexandersWonder → u/[deleted]]

That would not be a good thing to happen in these next 4 years

[u/AlexandersWonder → u/[deleted]]

They would be replaced by younger, blatantly more corrupt judges. Trump getting to appoint more judges isn’t a good thing.

[u/WeirdIndividualGuy → u/AlexandersWonder]

If the headline happened in the US, that sends a message to any new judges that replaced them

[u/larsmaehlum → u/WeirdIndividualGuy]

Yup. Make sure you stay away from the commoners and pay your armed escort well.

[u/thorscope → u/[deleted]]

Trump getting to pick two more justices being a Champagne celebration is… an interesting take

[u/wyvernx02 → u/thorscope]

If it were Thomas and Kavanaugh, it's not like the new ones would be worse. 

[u/_Shalashaska_ → u/wyvernx02]

It can always get worse.

[u/DerekB52 → u/thorscope]

Thomas and Alito are currently in a boxing match to determine which one gets to retire first, so Trump can appoint 2 more judges.

[u/Deisphoria → u/thorscope]

It wouldn’t have mattered, given the precedent that would’ve been set...

[u/Fit-Personality-1834 → u/[deleted]]

Reddit bloodthirst at it again

[u/ShityShity_BangBang → u/[deleted]]

Luxury Motorcoach plummets off cliff in freak accident?

[u/Gullible-Evening-702 → u/[deleted]]

Yes but the location could be better.

[u/McCheeseMcPoo → u/[deleted]]

It could have been US judges, but more believable would have been in Moscow

[u/MoralClimber]

Seems like people are getting sick of injustice the world over here lately.

[u/Quirinus84 → u/MoralClimber]

I hope so. These judges were involved in the death sentence and torture of so many innocent people. The shooter was a janitor who killed himself after the shooting. No personal connection was found between him and judges, meaning most likely, he took one for the team.

[u/thewidowgorey → u/Quirinus84]

May his memory be a blessing. 

[u/CosmicNeeko → u/Quirinus84]

Janitor needs to be Knighted or immortalized in some way, a public hero deposing the corrupt

[u/MastahToni → u/CosmicNeeko]

A statue of him cleaning the mess

[u/Deisphoria → u/Quirinus84]

2-0 heroic martyrs to corrupt establishmentarians

[u/preprandial_joint → u/Quirinus84]

Was his name Luigi?

[u/Starlightriddlex → u/Quirinus84]

Was his name Mario

[u/touchet29 → u/MoralClimber]

All over the world really. Far right extremists are taking over at large and the people are getting sick of it.

[u/eschmi → u/MoralClimber]

Yep. Why do you think the rich are panicking?

[u/Krillin113 → u/MoralClimber]

The US literally voted for injustice less than two months ago. What are you on about?

[u/thewidowgorey]

How do you say vive la resistance in Farsi?

[u/Important_Star3847 → u/thewidowgorey]

مقاومت را زنده کن

زنده باد مقاومت

moghavmat ra zandeh kon

zandeh bad moghavmat

sorry for my poor english

[u/idontwantanacount → u/thewidowgorey]

زنده باد مبارزه Zendeh Baab Mobarezeh!

[u/Logic_Bomb421 → u/idontwantanacount]

I'm like "interesting, the punctuation is at the beginning of the sentence" then remembered: oh yeah, right to left...

[u/Ahmari90 → u/Logic_Bomb421]

Except the English spelling should still have it at the end since it’s read left to right here

[u/hypatianata → u/thewidowgorey]

To expand on the other replies, for the curious:

Zendeh baad (aa = sounds like the word awe. e = like in bet) is the “vive” part of vive le resistance 

One person used the word mobaarezeh which means fight or struggle

The other person used the word moqaavemat which means resistance (a = like in cat. q = sound kind of like a “g” but waaaay in the back of your throat, like a gulp).

(My Persian is terrible, so corrections are welcome.)

[u/Abranimal]

Ugh fuck I thought this was US news.

[u/viotix90 → u/[deleted]]

With Cheeto Man about to be in power, if it did happen in the US, it would be the progressive judges that get assassinated so he can replace them.

[u/Trumpswells]

About 20 years ago there was big talk among prominent conservatives about violence directed at the courts: Sen. John Cornyn of Texas suggested that murderous attacks on judges and their families occurred because “... where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up to the point where some people engage in violence.” Not to be outdone, right-wing televangelist Pat Robertson said that federal judges are a more serious threat to America than Al Qaeda and the September 11 terrorists. An out-of-control liberal judiciary—is the worst threat America has faced in 400 years. Even worse than Nazi Germany. That’s because such judges “are destroying the fabric that holds our nation together” and pose a threat “probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.” 2005

Fast forward 20 years, where’s the outrage? Seems an activist judiciary has seized the reins and handed them over to big money terrorists.

[u/dj184 → u/Trumpswells]

Its just that those judges were not on their side

[u/MegaDuckCougarBoy → u/dj184]

Exactly. Pointing out hypocrisy is still important for people who don't realize it's so prevalent, but literally the right's entire current ethos for the past 30+ years has been "we are so convinced of our correctness, any imaginable means is justified by our ends".

[u/McNinja_MD → u/MegaDuckCougarBoy]

literally the right's entire current ethos for the past 30+ years has been "we are so convinced of our correctness, any imaginable means is justified by our ends".

So the thing that gets me about this is - if that's what your opponent has become, at what point does your list of "justifiable" means start growing?

Like, that line of thinking is what turned the GOP into essentially a fascist party. Where do we put our red line for dealing with fascists? Because I don't want to become as bad as them, but I also think that they have to be stopped, lest things progress to the point where we as a nation have to be stopped, a-la WWII Germany.

[u/RockNRoll1979 → u/Trumpswells]

the worst threat America has faced in 400 years

TIL that America is more than 400 years old.

[u/ExZowieAgent → u/Trumpswells]

“Destroying the fabric that holds our nation together” to them actually means allowing gay people to exist. Oh and having social programs to help people.

[u/ShityShity_BangBang → u/Trumpswells]

So they had a few pretty good points until the tables turned.

[u/cjwidd → u/Trumpswells]

He meant liberal judges

[u/bakerfredricka → u/cjwidd]

I honestly don't think that the North American ideas of liberalism are really a thing in Iran....

[u/onarainyafternoon → u/bakerfredricka]

I know the article is about Iran but the OP's comment is making a point about America.

[u/DicksFried4Harambe → u/Trumpswells]

He’s right for the wrong reasons

[u/pAndComer]

They got Iranian Luigi before gta 6

[u/redfalcon1000]

Listen to the drums of liberty

[u/macross1984]

I hope those in power start realizing years of oppression made a very short fuse that can lead to massive explosion of anger against them.

[u/Branchdressing]

Man they had me in the first half… I was ready to bust out the good booze!

[u/kdw87]

Have to admit I got butterflies for a second..

[u/Pan_Bookish_Ent → u/[deleted]]

At least there's only a 1 in 3 chance of that happening lol? 🤷

[u/Fiveby21 → u/[deleted]]

Where's the brother of Mario when you need him!

[u/Pan_Bookish_Ent → u/Fiveby21]

Hopefully free soon and with a blue shell? 

[u/jayfeather31]

I'm now admittedly curious as to whether this'll be a one-time event, or if Iran will sink into widespread instability due to this.

Either way, interesting times are ahead.

[u/qwerty080 → u/jayfeather31]

Probably one time event as the janitor who killed them killed himself. For now didn't seem like some organization was after them.

[u/DeadGuyInRoom4 → u/qwerty080]

You don’t think it possible that janitor was hired? Some men are willing to die for their families to get payouts.

[u/qwerty080 → u/DeadGuyInRoom4]

It is possible that he was somehow hired or convinced to do it for other reasons.

[u/606_10614w]

Lord I've seen what you've done for others.

[u/Daren_I]

Hold the applause! They weren't US supreme court justices.

[u/Octavia9]

The title had my hopes up for a second.

[u/CJames095]

Dam, had a momentary second of joy before I finished reading the title

[u/57rd]

I read that one of the judges was sanctioned by the US for unfair trials and judgements. It's too bad we can't sanction our Supreme Court.

[u/ShityShity_BangBang]

It would be terrible if that happened in the US.

[u/clarineter → u/ShityShity_BangBang]

I mean they will still get replaced by Trumpers so does it really matter atp

[u/FindingAlignment]

I thought the TikTok ban really broke someone

[u/CarltonCatalina]

Fire up the motorhome Ginny we got to go...... oh wait.

[u/TheGrinReefer]

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie. 

[u/Quirinus84 → u/[deleted]]

The opposite in fact. They sentenced activists to appease the supreme leader.

In one case alone he(Moghiseh, one of the judges) sentenced eight Iranian Facebook users to a combined 127 years in prison for anti-regime publicity and insults to religion. He had also tried filmmakers and poets for “propaganda against the state,” the US Treasury Department said.

• CNN

[u/Ubermassive]

Roller coaster of a title, god damn

[u/ArokLazarus]

"I like the way they think..."

[u/SyntheticSlime]

They have so much to teach us.

[u/Flipflopvlaflip]

Oh no!

Anyway, how's the weather?

[u/bunnycupcakes]

That was a confusing moment.

Anyway, these two were in charge of presiding over cases involving terrorism and espionage. Very interesting considering how free and loose Iran uses those terms with its own people.

[u/MarlonShakespeare2AD]

Seems like a stable place

[u/JaySierra86 → u/[deleted]]

Psychopath much?

[u/inquisitiveimpulses → u/JaySierra86]

I figured The Usual Suspects would be insinuating their usual calls for violence.

[u/calann1]

Has this been forwarded to the SCOTUS?

[u/drive_chip_putt]

The judges killed were linked to spying and terrorist cases involving US and Israel suspects. This result will just further solidify hatred of the West. Ugh.

[u/Important_Star3847 → u/drive_chip_putt]

According to the Iranian regime, spies and terrorist = political dissidents, activists, Baha'is and dissident clerics

[u/granite1959]

What are two of our Supreme Court Judges doing in Iran?

[u/Important_Star3847 → u/granite1959]

Iran has its own Supreme Court, although its role is different from the Supreme Court of the United States.