regime has ramped up executions<\/a> under the cover of conflict.\n <\/p>\n\n Human rights organizations and UN experts have condemned the omission of rights protections from the 14-point Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the United States and Iran in June, warning that it has allowed Tehran to accelerate internal crackdowns and executions.\n <\/p>\n
\n Mostafa Tajzadeh, a political prisoner and veteran Iranian reformist politician who became one of the most outspoken critics of Iran\u2019s political system from within the establishment, issued an open letter from Evin Prison on Monday, calling for an immediate halt to the executions of the \u201cyoung protesters.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n He described the executions as \u201cplaying with fire,\u201d warning that they \u201ccould once again engulf the country in devastating flames.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIn my view, executions will only widen the divide between the state and society, reduce the prospects for dialogue and peaceful change, and significantly increase the risk of the country descending once again into a cycle of reciprocal violence,\u201d Tajzadeh said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Aida Karimi contributed reporting.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Executions and death sentences in Iran have been on the rise since March, the United Nations\u2019 High Commissioner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-804393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}