Leader of the Islamic Revolution pardons, commutes sentences of 920 convicts

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has either pardoned or commuted the sentences of some 920 convicts.

Ayatollah Khamenei on Monday agreed to a request by Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani for the acts of clemency on the occasion of the Islamic Republic Day, which falls on April 1 this year.

The day marks the 35th anniversary of a referendum in which Iranians voted for the establishment of the Islamic Republic following the collapse of Iran’s autocratic monarchy that was solidly backed by the US and its Western allies.

In a two-day referendum staged in late March after the 1979 victory of the Islamic Revolution, more than 98.2 percent of Iranians voted ‘yes’ to the establishment of an Islamic Republic system.

Since then, the nation has annually celebrated the anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, referred to as the Islamic Republic Day.