In the report of Mostafa Salem on CNN, Iran hanged two people convicted of blasphemy. Yusef Mehrdad and Sadrullah Fazeli Zare were the people hanged. They were arrested in May 2020 and sentenced to death in April 2021 for running online Anti-Islam groups and channels. What is Blasphemy? Blasphemy is the action or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk. Why did Iran hanged two people convicted of blasphemy? The authorities convicted both after they were found to be members of a Telegram channel titled “Critique of Superstition and Religion,” according to the US Commission of International Religious Freedom. The member of the Telegram channel allegedly…