Iran carries out second known execution over protests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "A system that treats its people in this way cannot expect to continue to have halfway normal relations with the European Union."
47% :Iran is one of the world's top executioners and typically executes prisoners by hanging.
45% : Mashhad, a Shiite holy city, is located some 460 miles east of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
41% : At least 488 people have been killed since the demonstrations began in mid-September, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that's been monitoring the protests.
41% : That charge has been levied against others in the decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and carries the death penalty.
40% : "We are making clear that we stand beside innocent people in Iran," Baerbock said as she arrived at the Brussels meeting.
37% : The public hanging of Majidreza Rahnavard, less than a month after he allegedly carried out the fatal stabbings -- purportedly angry about security forces killing protesters -- shows the speed at which Iran now carries out death sentences handed down for those detained in the demonstrations the government hopes to put down.
37% : The bloc is to approve on Monday a fresh series of sanctions against Iran over its crackdown on protestors, and also for supplying drones to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine, the bloc's top diplomat said.
35% : Iran on Monday executed a second known prisoner detained and convicted amid nationwide protests challenging the country's theocracy, airing footage on state television it claimed shows him stabbing two security force members to death and running away.
34% : Amid the unrest, Iran is also battered by an economic crisis that has seen the national currency, the rial, drop to new lows against the U.S. dollar.

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