Three men were hanged in public in the south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Sunday.Two of the men were accused of being Mofsed-o-fel-Arz (meaning corruptors of society, whose blood can be spilled) and “mohareb”, a religious term that describes someone who wages war on God. The charge mohareb is often applied to those accused of armed resistance to the state.The report said that Mohammad Sh. had been convicted of kidnapping and spreading fear in society, among other charges.Changiz N. was charged with armed robbery and murder.Ali B. was accused of drug trafficking.All three men were hanged in public in the city's Kargar (Worker) Square the report said. Since 2005, Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the restive province.
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A man was hanged in public in the south-eastern town of Saravan, a semi-official daily reported on Saturday.The man, identified only by his first name Amanollah, was accused of armed robbery, the hard-line Jomhouri Islami wrote. Amanollah was hanged in public on Thursday. He was sentenced to death by a court in the nearby city of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province. On Monday, Iranian authorities executed two men identified as Youssef H. and Pordel B. in Zahedan. Sistan-va-Baluchistan has been a hotbed of anti-government activities since 2005. since then the Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the restive province.
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A man was hanged in public in the south-eastern town of Saravan, a semi-official daily reported on Saturday.The man, identified only by his first name Amanollah, was accused of armed robbery, the hard-line Jomhouri Islami wrote. Amanollah was hanged in public on Thursday. He was sentenced to death by a court in the nearby city of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province. On Monday, Iranian authorities executed two men identified as Youssef H. and Pordel B. in Zahedan. Sistan-va-Baluchistan has been a hotbed of anti-government activities since 2005. since then the Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the restive province.
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Some 600,000 people are sent to prison each year in Iran, a state-run news agency reported on Tuesday.Mehr News Agency also said that at any given time the prison population was approximately 158,000.
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A United States federal judge ruled that the Iranian government was involved in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia which left 19 U.S. Air Force personnel dead.On December 22, District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that the government of Iran, as well as its Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was responsible for the attack, adding that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei personally gave the go-ahead for the operation.The judge ordered Tehran to pay $254 million in damages to the relatives of those killed in the attack, which was carried out by operatives of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
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Iran's Justice Minister died on Thursday in a road accident, state-run media reported yesterday.Jamal Karimi-Rad was killed when a truck slammed into his car between the towns of Saveh and Tafresh, central Iran, the news agency Mehr said.Two of his relatives sustained injuries in the accident and where taken to a hospital in the holy city of Qom, the report added.As both Justice Minister and Judiciary Spokesman, Karimi-Rad was a senior official in Iran's executive and judicial branches.He was previously a revolutionary prosecutor in Zanjan and Qazvin provinces, and director of Taazirat Department (agency for implementation of corporal punishment, including flogging in public, etc) in Qazvin.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki described the Islamic Republic as a "nuclear state", the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday."The United States and other Western countries are opposed to Islamic states obtaining new technologies. This is why they are running a technological apartheid", Mottaki said. He made the remarks at a meeting with Libya's visiting Minister of Planning."Iran has become a nuclear state. In the coming months, we will hold a grand celebration for our country's nuclearization". !!!
Some 600,000 people are sent to prison each year in Iran, a state-run news agency reported on Tuesday.Mehr News Agency also said that at any given time the prison population was approximately 158,000.
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A United States federal judge ruled that the Iranian government was involved in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia which left 19 U.S. Air Force personnel dead.On December 22, District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that the government of Iran, as well as its Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was responsible for the attack, adding that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei personally gave the go-ahead for the operation.The judge ordered Tehran to pay $254 million in damages to the relatives of those killed in the attack, which was carried out by operatives of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
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Iran's Justice Minister died on Thursday in a road accident, state-run media reported yesterday.Jamal Karimi-Rad was killed when a truck slammed into his car between the towns of Saveh and Tafresh, central Iran, the news agency Mehr said.Two of his relatives sustained injuries in the accident and where taken to a hospital in the holy city of Qom, the report added.As both Justice Minister and Judiciary Spokesman, Karimi-Rad was a senior official in Iran's executive and judicial branches.He was previously a revolutionary prosecutor in Zanjan and Qazvin provinces, and director of Taazirat Department (agency for implementation of corporal punishment, including flogging in public, etc) in Qazvin.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki described the Islamic Republic as a "nuclear state", the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday."The United States and other Western countries are opposed to Islamic states obtaining new technologies. This is why they are running a technological apartheid", Mottaki said. He made the remarks at a meeting with Libya's visiting Minister of Planning."Iran has become a nuclear state. In the coming months, we will hold a grand celebration for our country's nuclearization". !!!
