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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.
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A senior official in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan has acknowledged the existence of a staggeringly-high number of illiterate people in the province.Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, the representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in East Azerbaijan, announced that there existed close to half a million illiterate people in the province.“The existence of 470,000 illiterates in the province is extremely shameful”, Shabestari told a group of educational officials. His remarks were reported on Thursday by the government-run news agency Fars.
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The chief of the State Security Forces (SSF) in Iran's south-eastern city of Iranshahr was killed during armed clashes with "bandits", the official news agency reported on Thursday.The report quoted an anonymous SSF official as saying that Colonel Gholam-Hossein Jafari was shot and killed during a skirmish in the suburbs of the village of Delgan, close to Iranshahr.One of the bandits was also killed, it said.Iranshahr is situated in the impoverished province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan which has been a hotbed of anti-government activities since 2005.
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A man was hanged in prison in the central city of Isfahan, the official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday.The man, identified as 43-year-old Ali Sh., was convicted of drug smuggling, the report said.
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Three men were hanged at dawn on Wednesday in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, the official daily Iran reported.One of the men was identified by his first name Qadir. Two of the men were accused of murder, while the third was accused of rape.Evin Prison was built by the Shah’s regime as a maximum security prison to house political dissidents, but it became the Islamic Republic’s most dreaded gulag and the site of thousands of political executions.
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Iranian authorities have hanged a man near the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, a state-run news agency reported on Saturday.The man, identified only by his initials H. A., was hanged in a village prison on Thursday, ISNA said.He was accused of murder.
