Iran has executed three men charged in connection with political protests this January, authorities have said, the latest in a wave of hangings against the backdrop of the war against the US and Israel . Iranian authorities have carried out executions on a near-daily basis in recent weeks in what activists have denounced as a bid to instil fear in society at a time of international and domestic tension. Mehdi Rassouli, Mohammad Reza Miri and Ebrahim Dolatabadi, all considered political prisoners by human rights organisations, were executed after being convicted over unrest in the eastern city of Mashhad in January , the judiciary’s Mizan news agency announced on Monday. It did not specify when or where they were executed, but the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana) said Rassouli, 25, and Miri, 21, were hanged at dawn on Sunday at the Vakilabad prison in Mashhad.…