Iran Publicly Hangs Man From Crane Amid 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.
46% : The development underscores the speed at which Iran now carries out death sentences handed down for those detained in the demonstrations that the government hopes to put down.
45% : Mashhad, a Shiite holy city, is located some 460 miles east of the Iranian capital, Tehran.
44% : Activists have put pressure on companies providing cranes to Iran in the past, warning they can be used for executions.
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% :Executions conducted in public with a crane have been rare in recent years, though Iran used the same manner of hanging to put down unrest following the disputed 2009 presidential election and the Green Movement protests that followed.
40% : "We are making clear that we stand beside innocent people in Iran," Baerbock said as she arrived at the Brussels meeting.
39% : The bloc is to approve on Monday a fresh series of sanctions against Iran over its crackdown on protesters, and also for supplying drones to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine, the bloc's top diplomat said.
35% : "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.
34% : Iran executed a second prisoner Monday who was convicted of crimes committed during the nationwide protests challenging the country's theocracy, publicly hanging him from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others.

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