Iran executes two more men convicted of allegedly killing a paramilitary volunteer during nationwide protests challenging the theocracy in the country, writes AP. The total number of such executed reached four.

The names of those executed, according to the court, were Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad Hosseini. They were convicted for the murder of Ruhollah Ajamian, a member of the Basij volunteer force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, in the city of Karaj near Tehran on November 3. The Basij have deployed in major cities, attacking and detaining protesters, who in many cases fight back.

Courts in Iran do not allow defendants to choose their own lawyers or even view the evidence against them.. Amnesty International said these courts "

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Activists say at least 16 people have been sentenced to death in closed hearings on protest-related charges. Death sentences in Iran are usually carried out by hanging..

At least 517 protesters were killed and more than 19,200 arrested, according to Iran Human Rights Activists.. Iranian authorities have not provided an official count of those killed or detained.

An ultra-conservative political class group in power in Iran is directly affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), or Pasdaran, which is essentially a state within a state.. The IRGC can be compared with the troops of the Stalinist NKVD, reinforced with aviation, tanks and naval forces. Will these protests be the forerunner of dramatic changes in the country, will they lead to the fall of the fundamentalist regime? Read about this in the article by Igor Semivolos “Protests in Iran: what is happening and will the regime fall”.