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MAY // 2024

Stop Iran From Executing Jewish Man

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Iran is about to execute a Jewish man in a targeted miscarriage of justice.

A young Jewish man, Arvin Ghahremani, was sentenced to execution in Iran after defending himself in a knife assault by Muslim attackers.

Arvin was kind enough to lend a Muslim man some money. But the man and six other Muslims ambushed and stabbed him. Arvin successfully fought back and disarmed his assailant before fatally stabbing him.

Arvin was later convicted of being an “accomplice to the intentional murder of a Muslim.” He was then sentenced to death on a Friday and expected to be executed the following Monday in a rushed execution.

We immediately submitted an emergency filing at the U.N. to stop the malicious execution of this innocent Jewish man and overturn this miscarriage of justice. Since our U.N. filing, Arvin’s execution has been temporarily postponed, but his family is still pleading for his life. We’re taking further legal action to save him, and we need your help. We’ve helped overturn death sentences in Iran before. We must show Iran that the world is watching and its atrocities must stop. Do not let Iran execute this innocent Jewish man.

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FEB // 2026

ACLJ Files Emergency Complaint to the U.N. on Behalf of Jewish Man in...

Jordan Sekulow //

May 20, 2024

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Jan 16, 2026

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Iran is preparing to execute an innocent young man because he’s Jewish, and he’s running out of time.

The ACLJ is advocating for his life at the United Nations, having just filed an urgent complaint with the U.N.’s Special Procedures seeking swift international intervention to stop the execution and overturn this miscarriage of justice.

In November 2022, 20-year-old Arvin Ghahremani was attacked by seven men, one of whom stabbed Ghahremani. In the scuffle, Ghahremani disarmed the man, later identified as Amir Shokri, and fatally stabbed him in self-defense.

Now Ghahremani has been convicted of “being an ‘accomplice to the intentional murder of a Muslim’” and sentenced to death.

Iran has made little attempt to disguise its desire to see the Jewish state of Israel decimated, and every Jewish man, woman, and child along with it. This is a clear case of Iran targeting a Jewish man for execution.

Killing someone in self-defense is not a crime, regardless of faith. And being Jewish does not negate anyone’s right to defend their own life. We have asked the U.N.’s Special Procedures to urgently intervene to save Ghahremani’s life.

Under Iran’s Islamic law, the purported victim’s family can also forgive Ghahremani or take monetary compensation to spare his life. The ACLJ will continue to advocate for Gharemani’s life, and we hope that justice and mercy will prevail and this young man will not be executed.

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