Iran’s judiciary has sentenced three more anti-government protesters to death on charges of “waging war on God,” its Mizan news agency reported on Monday, defying growing international criticism over its fierce crackdown on demonstrators. “There’s nothing really surprising about the fact that the authorities in the Islamic Republic are relying on suppression and violence and increasingly executions as a way of getting themselves out of trouble — and they are in trouble, and they know it,” said Alex Vatanka, director of the Iran Program at the Middle East Institute on Tuesday.
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