Iran hangs 2 women as surge in executions intensifies, group says

PARIS — Iran hanged at least seven people Saturday, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic Republic further intensified its use of capital punishment, a nongovernmental organization said.  Parvin Mousavi, 53, a mother of two grown children, was hanged in Urmia prison in northwestern Iran along with five men convicted in various drug-related cases, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights, or IHR, said in a statement.  In Nishapur in eastern Iran...