Italian foreign ministry on Thursday urged the Iranian regime to stop executing people, citing Rome’s ‘deep uneasiness’ with new wave of executions in Iran in recent weeks.
"On the instruction of Minister D’Alema, the foreign ministry today protested to the deputy chief of Iran’s embassy in Rome, Hossein Mafi Moghaddam, Italy’s deep uneasiness with the executions that have been taking place in Iran over the last weeks", the foreign ministry said in a statement.
"In addition real concern was expressed for the sentencing to death of two Kurdish journalists accused of spying", the statement said.
On Thursday two men were hanged in public in central Tehran.