Kayhan: If there hadn’t been leniency in dealing decisively with the rioters, the terrorists who attacked Shah Cheragh might have been captured among the rioters.
The newspaper managed by Hossein Shariatmadari wrote:
If there hadn’t been leniency in dealing decisively and regretfully with the rioters, and if some political figures, for whom self-abandonment and incompetence are the most respectful assumptions, hadn’t implicitly and explicitly supported the rioters, and if they hadn’t labeled attacks on people’s lives, property, and honor as protests, it is highly likely that the terrorists who attacked the pilgrims of the Shah Cheragh shrine, peace be upon him, would have been captured among the recent rioters, and yesterday’s crime opportunity would have been taken away from those embodiments of corruption.