According to the Iranian newspaper Khorasan, which confirmed the judicial proceedings, Amini told the court she had posted the remarks while hallucinating after taking psychedelic mushrooms with friends and her defence argued it was a “slip of the tongue”.

The presiding judge rejected her defence, reportedly asking: “Why, in that same hallucinatory state, did you not insult other individuals or opponents of the regime, such as America and Israel?”

Amini’s death sentence is not final and remains subject to appeal before Iran’s supreme court.

Good news here is that the ruling remains subject to appeal.

This is horrible and awful. Nothing less. I'm commenting about 10 mind after reading an then looking at other news. This ladies plight is reflected right now in the US. Just change the names, places and pictures in the article to American.

This is all on you America. This is your doing. This was not normal in Iran before Israel and America wiped out their moderate government.

YOUR warmongering has insured that Iranian hardliners will remain in power for generations to come.

You want to help those people? THEN GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST.

Cause you sure as shit ain't going to "liberate" a single person with your sad pathetic enshitified military.

A source close to Amini’s family told the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) that Amini was sentenced to death.

By the way this story is probably CIA horseshit to begin with.

We can and should support the women of Iran by repeatedly bombing them and their families, destroying the cities they live in along with schools and hospitals, and possibly by obliterating the jail cell she’s being held in. I should probably add, this is sarcasm, because it also seems to be official US policy regarding the middle east in general.

This is conservatism. Conservatives will always naturally push toward violent authoritarianism. Always.

Imagine living in a country of mental patients where if you insult their favorite storybook character, they have this burning urge to kill you. It’s manic obsession.

What kind of profit prophet wants people to die in their name for an insult?

The Republic of Iran is evil incarnate to its own people, and everybody else.

The USA should stay out of it. But, instead, we've been a very poor example, from choosing to found Israel after WW2 all the way to today. We are totally invested in Israel (our 51st state), and therefore, will always be in conflict with a good deal of the middle east.

Jerusalem has been Jewish, then Roman, then Muslim, then Christian, then Muslim again, now Jewish. These Abrahamic fundamentalists will always fight for the Holy Land and kill each other for all time, as they always have.

The Jews should have been accepted into the USA after WWII, in my opinion, with no nation building and no CIA-backed coups in Iran. As it is, there's no end to it at this point, the fundies will take us with them and drag us all into hell.

Ugh. Fuck Iran.

Yeah but they're not gonna live stream it to the world. They're not monsters.

Does anyone know what she actually said?

It's ok. Trump to the rescue. That regime change should be coming any day now.

Any day....

At the moment the US is killing more innocent Iranians than Iran is.