Iran executes two men as brutal crackdown on widespread protests continues

Iranian government cracks down on anti-regime protesters who sparked civil unrest after morality police fatally beat a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini for wearing her "wrong" hijab

Mohammad Hosseini was put to death in Iran (

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Iran has executed two more men as the brutal crackdown on widespread protests continues in the country.

The two men are officially found guilty of killing a paramilitary volunteer during a demonstration.

These are the latest executions aimed at ending nationwide protests that are currently challenging the country's theocracy.

Iranian justice has identified those executed as Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad Hosseini.

That makes four men known to have been executed since protests began in September over the death of Mahsa Amini.

All faced speedy and internationally criticized closed trials.

Forensic news agency Mizan said the men were found guilty of killing Ruhollah Ajamian, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' volunteer Basij force, in the city of Karaj outside Tehran , November 3.

The Basij deployed in major cities, attacking and detaining protesters, who in many cases fought back.

Mohammad Mehdi Karami was also put to death after the protests (

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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Twitter that Karami and Hosseini were "more than two names".

“(They were) hanged by the Iranian regime because they did not want to submit to its brutal and inhumane actions. Two more terrible fates that encourage us to increase pressure on Tehran through the EU “, she wrote.

Heavily edited footage shown on state television shows Karami speaking to a revolutionary court about the attack, which also shows a re-enactment of the attack, prosecutors claim.

The Iranian Revolutionary Courts have handed down the other two death sentences already carried out.

Courts do not allow people on trial to choose their own...