Iran executes two men as brutal crackdown on widespread protests continue

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned last month that the UK will need to spend an "increasing amount of time" on Tehran amid its destabilising actions and nuclear programme.
47% : Iranian demonstrators taking to the streets of the capital Tehran ( Image: AFP via Getty Images)
43% : "The UK is strongly opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances."
42% : Majidreza Rahnavard was also executed last month in Iran ( Image: Twitter) Iranian authorities have not provided an official count of those killed or detained.
42% : Foreign Secretary James Cleverly urged Tehran to "end the violence against its own people", with four men known to have been executed since demonstrations began in September.
39% : The judiciary's Mizan news agency said the men had been convicted of killing Ruhollah Ajamian, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's volunteer Basij force, in the city of Karaj outside of Tehran on November 3.
39% : The men were convicted of the killing, as well as "corruption on Earth", a Quranic term and charge that has been levied against others in the decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and carries the death penalty.
39% : At least 517 protesters have been killed and over 19,200 people have been arrested, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group that has closely monitored the unrest.
38% : Death sentences in Iran are typically carried out by hanging.
38% : Mr Cleverly said: "Iran must immediately end the violence against its own people.
37% : A teenager dubbed the 'Jamie Oliver of Iran' was been beaten to death by security forces ( Image: Twitter)
36% : We need to see the UK and other governments urgently mobilising to prevent further repression and further executions in Iran."
35% : "Hundreds of people have already been killed by the Iranian security forces, thousands have been arrested and dozens - possibly hundreds - are at risk of execution after sham trials," she said.
33% : "(They were) hanged by the regime in Iran because they didn't want to submit to its brutal and inhuman actions.
32% : Two further terrible fates that encourage us to increase the pressure on Tehran through the EU," she wrote.
32% : Protests have erupted across Iran with the government enforcing a crackdown ( Image: UGC/AFP via Getty Images)
31% : Iran has executed another two men as the brutal crackdown on widespread protests continue in the country.

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