Blindfolded Iranian convicted man being escorted by officials and security to be prepared for his execution in public in the northern city of Nour, Iran. (Photo: AP)
Iranians visit the spot in the courtyard of Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad city on April 6, 2022, where a day earlier an attacker stabbed three clerics, two of them fatally (Photo: Hadis Faghiri/Fars News/AFP/File)
A picture shows bystanders near a destroyed car in the southern Iraqi city of Basra after at least four civilians were killed and four more wounded in a motorcycle bombing near a hospital, Dec. 7, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
A Muslim Brotherhood brother waves from a cage in a courtroom in Torah prison, Egypt in August 2015. An April 2021 Amnesty International report said Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia topped the global executions list. (Photo: Amr Nabil/AP)