Iran sentences 3 more protesters to death, expert warns regime “in trouble”

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.

Iran hung two other men on Saturday in its attempts to stamp out demonstrations, which have slowed considerably since the government began carrying out executions within weeks of arrests. One of the executed was a karate champion with several national titles.

"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.

The Basij forces, affiliated with the elite Revolutionary Guards, have been at the forefront of the state clampdown on the unrest sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran's so-called 'morality police' on Sept. 16.

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