Saeed Kamali Deghani’s 2010 Guardian article about a woman executed in Iran played a significant role in setting the anti-Iran narrative of the following years. Titled “Iranian facing stoning speaks: ‘It’s because I’m a woman’”, Deghani’s “exclusive interview” relayed Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s accusation that the Iranian court was lying about charges of adultery and murder. The article said that the charges were made up.
Mina Ahadi is a communist Iranian exile who serves on the committee of Atheist Alliance International. She presumably has little reason to want to help the image of Iran’s Islamic Republic. But she has posted a screenshot of Deghani’s confession. In the accompanying caption, she says that Deghani had already confessed to her in 2010, and that he had begged her not to expose him in case he was sacked and sent back to Iran.
It’s an opinion post attributed to “skwawkbox”, no actual author. The main source of the article is a post on Facebook, which cites a screenshot of what looks like an Instagram story.
The Guardian article is the first or second link in this story, but it’s an archive.org link. Here’s a live link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/06/sakineh-mohammadi-ashtiani-iran-interview