Iran hangs two in public over Shiraz shrine shooting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% :Iran executes more people annually than any nation other than China, according to rights groups including the London-based Amnesty International.
45% : Public executions are relatively rare in Iran with almost all hangings carried out inside prisons.
40% : Iran hanged two men in public on Saturday over an October attack on a shrine in the southern city of Shiraz that claimed over a dozen lives, the judiciary said.
37% : The main assailant, who was later identified by media in Iran as Hamed Badakhshan in his 30s, died of injuries sustained during his arrest, the authorities said.
37% : A United Nations fact-finding mission said on July 5 that Iran had executed seven men in connection with the Amini protests, calling on it to stop the "chilling" practice.
35% :Iran had previously said the attack involved people from other countries, including neighbouring Afghanistan, but the nationalities of the executed men were not immediately revealed.
32% : The area of Iran that borders Afghanistan and Pakistan is a hotbed of unrest, and on Saturday four armed assailants killed an Iranian policeman in the Sunni-majority city of Zahedan near the same frontier, state media said.
26% :IS claimed its first attack in Iran in 2017 when armed men and suicide bombers attacked the parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic, killing 17 people and wounding dozens.
19% : The shrine attack came more than a month after protests spread across Iran over the death in custody of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, following her arrest in Tehran for allegedly violating the country's dress code for women.

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