(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 30, 2020, Ruhollah Zam, a former opposition figure who had lived in exile in France and had been implicated in anti-government protests, speaks during his trial at Iran's Revolutionary Court in Tehran. - Iranian state television said the "counter-revolutionary" Zam was hanged in the morning of December 12, 2020, after the supreme court upheld his sentence due to "the severity of the crimes" committed against the Islamic republic. (Photo by ALI SHIRBAND / MIZAN NEWS AGENCY / AFP)