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A man was hanged in Iran on Wednesday for a crime he allegedly committed some 27 years ago.The 47-year-old man identified only by his first name Houshang was hanged at dawn in a prison in the city of Isfahan, central Iran, the government-run news agency Fars reported.He was accused of murdering the relatives of his step brother 27 years ago when he was only 20 years old.
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A young man was hanged in central Iran, state media reported.The 21-year-old man only identified by his first name Arash was accused of murder, the government-run news agency Fars reported on Tuesday.Arash was a teenager when he purportedly stabbed a student at a high school in the town of Mobarakeh.On Saturday, Fars reported that two men were hanged in a prison in the south-western province of Khuzestan.The two men, who were not identified by name, were hanged in Karoon Prison in the restive city of Ahwaz.They were accused of murder and armed robbery.
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Aassociated France Press reported on Wed. that one of five Iranians arrested by US forces in Iraq last week is the suspected leader of a commando team that assassinated three Iranian Kurds in Vienna in 1989, Austrian public radio has reported. Austria's Oe1 radio said Tuesday that one of the arrested Iranians is Mohammad Jafari-Sahroudi, implicated in the assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, then head of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, his assistant and another Kurdish exile. The US military arrested the five Iranians last week at an office in the northern city of Arbil, suspecting them of being agents for the Iranian government who had been arming militias and inciting anti-American attacks in Iraq. Jafari-Sahroudi and two suspected accomplices took refuge in the Iranian embassy after the 1989 killings, and managed to get out of the country without ever being questioned by the Austrian authorities.
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Germany is proposing that the European Union step up sanctions on Iran to more than that required of it by a resolution adopted at the United Nations Security Council late last year, Britain’s Financial Times said on Friday.Germany which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency is proposing the 27-nation block ban individuals linked to Iran’s nuclear and missile programs from visiting EU states and reaffirm its opposition to selling arms to Tehran, according to a document seen by the Financial Times.Last month the Security Council passed a resolution requiring UN member states to prevent the transfer of nuclear and missile technology to Tehran and to stop all financing for a number of companies linked to the nuclear and missile programs. The resolution also requires UN states to freeze the assets of 12 people connected with the programs.The EU proposals, put forward ahead of a foreign ministers meeting on Monday, would also ban travel to the EU of the individuals on the UN list and take steps to restrict Iranians studying proliferation-sensitive subjects within the EU.
