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Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 protests

by Amir Vahdat
| December 11, 2020 9:07 PM

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Saturday executed a once-exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017, authorities said, just months after he returned to Tehran under mysterious circumstances.

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