‘I wished my mother a speedy execution, I didn’t want her to be tortured’

Mona Mahmoudi's parents were among the first members of Iran's Baha'i religious minority to be executed during the Islamic Republic's decades-long crackdown.

When her mother, the country's first female meteorologist, was arrested along with seven others, her daughter wished she would be executed soon.

"I knew they were going to be executed and I hoped it would happen sooner rather than later," she told The Telegraph at a Baha'i event in London.

"There were so many cases of Baha'is being tortured in prison," she added, "and I didn't want them to be tortured."

Ms Mahmoudi was in east London for ...