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A protester with an Iranian flag painted on her face participates in a torchlight procession in honour of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Oslo, Norway, Saturday, December 10, 2022
IRAN has executed a second prisoner who was detained and convicted amid nationwide protests, the country’s judiciary said yesterday.
State television showed footage purportedly showing the executed man, Majidreza Rahnavard, stabbing two security force members to death in the north-eastern city of Mashhad and wounding four others before running away on November 17.
Activists say that at least a dozen people have also been sentenced to death in closed-door hearings.
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction