Dublin mosque arson accused claims he fled Iran to escape execution

Alleged arson attack on mosque with potential for child casualties; defendant claims prior torture and persecution in Iran.

In a Dublin courtroom, a man who says he fled Iran to escape execution for rejecting Islam now faces charges of setting fire to a mosque — a case that holds within it the long shadows of persecution, displacement, and the violence that ideological conviction, in any form, can produce. Saeid Khosroabadi, 41, was arrested after a June fire at the Faizan E Madinah Mosque on Talbot Street, and appeared at Cloverhill District Court unrepresented, speaking of torture and survival while prosecutors allege he expressed indifference to whether children perished in the flames. The case moves toward the

Dublin mosque arson accused claims he fled Iran to escape execution

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