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In this photo taken Nov. 18, 2019, and released by Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA, people walk past buildings which burned during protests that followed the authorities' decision to raise gasoline prices, in Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, Iran. Iranian state media says authorities have sentenced five people to death for allegedly killing a paramilitary troop affiliated with IranâÄ™s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Eleven others received lengthy prison sentences. The 13 men and three minors had been charged with killing the official from the Basij, a paramilitary volunteer branch of the IRG. That's according to a report Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022 from IRNA, IranâÄ™s state news agency. (Masoume Aliakbar/ISNA via AP)