Iran steps up the war against its people

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : But will it work, as the tide of anti-government feeling continues to swell in Iran?
47% : Iran has announced the first execution of the current crop of protestors.
46% : But while it is clear Iran is trying to send a message with this execution, much of the coverage of what is unfolding on the streets of the Islamic republic is misconstrued.
45% : Both of those carry the death penalty, so it seems likely that more executions will soon follow.
45% : It was said he blockaded a main road in the capital Tehran in September and that he wounded a member of a paramilitary force - the Basij - with a machete.
44% : But another misapprehension is also circulating: this holds that Iran is on the threshold of giving in to the demonstrators.
44% : Just last week, it was reported that Iran was dissolving the Guidance Patrol - the so-called 'morality police' - who beat 22-year-old Mahsa Amini to death earlier this year, and in so doing began this wave of demonstrations.
37% : A state, such as Iran, that has shown itself prepared to kill hundreds of demonstrators in defence of its theocratic laws will not change those laws without a fight.
36% : Iran is a lawless theocracy: the votes in its parliament indicate the barbarism and bloodlust of the regime, but they have no legal weight.
36% : Iran, it was said, was even reconsidering its law forcing women to wear the hijab: the cause of Amini's initial arrest and killing.
33% : Unfortunately for those hoping that Iran was turning over a new leaf, this was false, as this week's execution shows.
18% : Iran has also made a specialty of kidnapping, or luring back, journalists and critics so they can be executed in Iran on spurious grounds.

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