Fear reigns with escalated public executions as Iran dictatorship launches crackdown on expression ahead of this week’s semi-democratic parliamentary vote

Iran ups repression of dissent ahead of vote: Amnesty

Iran has escalated its crackdown on freedom of expression ahead of this week’s parliamentary election, Amnesty International said in a report published on Tuesday. “In Iran today you put yourself at risk if you do anything that might fall outside the increasingly narrow confines of what the authorities.