Analysis-Iran executions quash protests, push dissent underground


  • World
  • Wednesday, 11 Jan 2023

FILE PHOTO Majid Kazemi appears in a courtroom as he Saeid Yaghoubi and Saleh Mirhashemi are alleged to have killed members of security forces during nationwide protests in Iran that followed the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in Isfahan Iran January 9 2023. Mizan News AgencyWANA West Asia News Agency via REUTERSFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: Majid Kazemi appears in a courtroom as he, Saeid Yaghoubi and Saleh Mirhashemi are alleged to have killed members of security forces during nationwide protests in Iran that followed the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, in Isfahan, Iran, January 9, 2023. Mizan News Agency/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's hanging of protesters -- and display of their lifeless bodies suspended from cranes -- seems to have instilled enough fear to keep people off the streets after months of anti-government unrest.

The success of the crackdown on the worst political turmoil in years is likely to reinforce a view among Iran's hardline rulers that suppression of dissent is the way to keep power.

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