Jannati sees leniency with the dissidents as un-Islamic. "God ordered the prophet Muhammad to brutally slay hypocrites and ill-intentioned people who stuck to their convictions. Koran insistently orders such deaths. May God not forgive anyone showing leniency toward the corrupt on Earth."Responding to clerics such as Jannati wanting to speed up executions, Iran's judiciary chief firmly stated his opposition, commenting that it was against the Sharia and Iranian law: "Political assumptions should not influence judicial investigations because we won't have a response before God should an innocent person be punished due to hasty action."
