Iran conducts second execution in connection with protests

• The Iranian government has cracked down aggressively on protests, and more than 480 protestors have been killed, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency.
• More than 18,000 people have been arrested, per the organization.

Driving the news: Mizan Online, a news agency affiliated with Iran's judiciary, identified the man who was executed as Majidreza Rahnavard. He was arrested last month for allegedly stabbing and killing two security officials.

• Rahnavard was publicly hanged in the Iranian city of Mashhad.
• Authorities last week executed Mohsen Shekari, who state media said injured a security guard with a machete during unrest in Tehran.

What they're saying: "Public execution of a young protester, 23 days after his arrest, is another serious crime committed by the [Islamic Republic] leaders and a significant escalation of the level of violence against protesters," Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of Iran Human Rights, said in a tweet.

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