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Allan Hassaniyan In: 295 (Summer 2020) n July 13, 2020, two young Kurdish men, Diako Rasoulzadeh and Saber Sheikh-Abdollah, were executed by the Iranian government on fabricated charges of involvement in bombing a military parade in Mahabad in 2010. They were also members of Komala, a banned Kurdish political party. Amnesty International notes that,“There has been an alarming escalation in use of the death penalty against protesters, dissidents and members of minority groups in Iran.” The Kurdish region is the most militarized in Iran, a situation that dates back to the Islamic revolution of 1979 and the Iran-Iraq war (1980–1988). The persecution and alarming number of executions of political and civil society activists among the Iranian Kurds are repeatedly featured in annual reports by the United Nation’s O ce of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In the OHCHR’s July 2019 report …