Iran executes prisoner convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Executions were up 83 percent compared to 2021, the rights group said.
40% : Iran and Israel are bitter rivals.
37% : Tehran, Dec 16 (EFE).- Iran executed a man convicted of spying for foreign intelligence services, including Israel's Mossad, amid a wave of hanging sentences and executions.
37% : In 2022, Iran executed at least 576 people -- more than any other country except China -- according to Amnesty International's annual report on the death penalty.
36% : "So far in 2023, the country has executed more than 750 people, most of them for crimes related to drug trafficking and possession, according to rights groups.
35% : Amnesty alleged that Iran "continued to use the death penalty as a tool of political repression and to disproportionately execute members of ethnic minorities as part of the long-term, entrenched discrimination and repression of these groups.

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