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Iran's Execution Machine

When the Iranian government executed five people last week, the opposition took it as a warning. Omid Memarian on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's increasingly brutal tactic.

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An Iranian policeman checks his gun before a hanging in Tehran, 2007. (Raheb Homavandi, FILE / Reuters)
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When the Iranian government executed four men and a woman in the notorious Evin Prison, the country’s dissidents took it as a warning: Protest and this could happen to you.

In the days since, the killings have been widely debated among Iranians at home and abroad.

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