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Thanks for the correction. I was trying to direct a little sarcasm at the regime and did a poor job of it. I know that there have been a large number of executions of men, though admittedly I didn't know it had become a weekly event. I'm very sad to hear that, and sadder still that it is so undereported.

Calling political enemies mere criminals is a tactic which seems to work all too well on the western press, and it's been used by just about every brutal regime to rob the victim of his individuality as well as his life without so much as causing a ripple in the news. The reporters assume criminals are guilty if listed as such by their government, without much concern about how that determination was made. If the victims aren't celebrities in some way, they die anonymously and only their immediate families know what they were really like in life.

In Iran, do the 'authorities' publish the names of those they murder/execute nationally or just locally? Are there a lot of missing persons, people who are suspected to have been killed or or arrested but who the regime does not acknowledge? Are names available, as in your article here, for more of these people, their occupations, etc?

Details about their lives from their families and friends, along with any information on them that could be used to more personalize what is happening to individuals in Iran and to any family members they have in the west who are affected, can go a long way towards getting the news out by helping non-Iranians to see these as real people and not mere statistics. It should be political suicide for any politician to take funding from companies which seek to deal with the regime.