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Illustration of the arrest of protesters in Iran. (Wikimedia Commons/Mostafa Tehorani)

JAKARTA - Iranian authorities executed a man protesting on Thursday, on charges of injuring a security guard with a knife and blocking a road in Tehran, the Tasnim semi-official news agency said, was the first execution of recent anti-government unrest.

Iran has been hit by a wave of intense protests since last September, after the death of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini (22) on September 16 in a moral police custody, because dress-up was not in accordance with the provisions, became the biggest challenge for the government since the 1979 Revolution.

Authorities have cracked down on protests and on Monday, while Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) pushed the court to quickly and decisively issue a decision against those accused of "crimes against the security of the nation and Islam".

The Tasnim news agency named the executed man Mohsen Shekari, but did not provide further details.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International said Iranian authorities imposed a death penalty for at least 21 people, in what he called "false threats designed to intimidate those participating in the popular uprising that has rocked Iran".

"Iranian authorities must immediately cancel all death penalty, refrain from the attempted imposition of the death penalty and lift all charges against those arrested in connection with their peaceful participation in the protests," the organization said.

Separately, the Western Government expressed disappointment over the high number of executions in Iran. Instead, Iran blamed the unrest on its foreign enemies, including the United States.

Earlier, judicial spokesman Masoud Setayeshi announced on Tuesday that five people charged in the assassination of a Basij militia member, Rouhollah Ajamian, had been sentenced to death in a ruling they could appeal.

To note, the execution rate in Iran is said to have increased before national protests, with UN high-human rights commissioner Volker Turk saying the number of this year reportedly surpassed 400 in September, for the first time in five years.