The New York Times reports that Iran’s Supreme Court has exonorated six members of a “prestigious state militia” who killed five people because those five individuals were, according to the six murderers, “morally corrupt.”

The six members of the Basiji Force – “volunteer vigilantes favored by the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad” (who was also a member of this ‘militia’ – were convicted for murder by a lower court.

Luckily, this is does not have to be the end of it: the “lower court in Kerman can appeal the decision to the full membership of the Supreme Court.” Full membership means that 50 judges will take part of the, then, final decision.

Lets see, these murderers are members of a militia favored by Khamenei and… Ahmadinejad was a member of it… It seems to me that chances are slim that the full membership of the court, will decide differently: these, excuse me, thugs will – most likely – get away with.

Hopefully, the Western media will pay quite some attention to the case, as to make more people aware of the evil and ruthless nature of the Iranian regime. Perhaps international pressure will change something (although I am quite sure it won’t). The best chance of changing the verdict, is by domestic pressure: the Iranian people responded with outrage to the decision by the Iranian Supreme Court.

As Ed Morrissey points out, the court in essence ruled that “the fair-haired boys of the mullahcracy (so to speak) need not bother with courts or judges at all. They can freely operate outside the law.”