Iran exceeds 500 executions in 2022

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : The State Department's 2021 annual report on human rights in Iran states that Islamic law allows for the execution of juvenile offenders starting at age 9 for girls and 13 for boys.
40% : The execution of a prisoner in Iran on Thursday brought the total number of people executed by the clerical regime in 2022 to more than 500 people.
39% : Iran is the world's top executioner of juvenile offenders, FDD said.
32% : "The United States should explicitly endorse the Iranian people's call for regime change and state that no nuclear agreement with Iran is on the table so long as the regime continues its systematic violations of human rights," said FDD's Kahn.
21% : The extensive crimes subject to capital punishment in Iran include adultery, drug use and moharebeh (waging war against God), which the regime uses to punish those whom it perceives as opponents of its radical Islamist ideology.

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