Iran on Saturday executed an exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.
Ruhollah Zam, 47, was killed a little more than a year after authorities tricked him into traveling to Iraq, where he was abducted.
Zam was one of several opposition figures successfully seized by Iranian intelligence operatives abroad in recent months as Tehran struggles under the weight of U.S. sanctions.
Kidnapping and executing Zam, who lived in Paris under what Iran described as French government protection, likely will further chill an already-scattered Iranian opposition across the West.
The 2017 protests, which continued into 2018, represented the biggest challenge to Iran s rulers since the 2009 Green Movement protests and set the stage for similar mass unrest in November of last year.
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