Iran executes exiled journalist who encouraged 2017 protests

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran has executed an exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017. Saturday’s execution of Ruhollah Zam came a little more than a year after authorities tricked him into traveling to Iraq where he was abducted. Zam’s AhmadNews website and a channel he created on the popular messaging app Telegram had spread the timings of the protests and embarrassing information about officials that directly