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| Iran jails 11 for attacks on mosques, public property |
| 2018-03-13 |
| [IsraelTimes] Eleven members of an Iranian opposition group accused of attacking mosques and public property have been sentenced to jail terms of up to six years, state news agency IRNA says Monday. Hassan Heidari, deputy prosecutor general of Khorasan Razavi province in northeast Iran, says the 11 defendants, including women, were also convicted of "propaganda against the system of the Islamic Theocratic Republic." Several of them were found guilty of having set fire to two mosques in the city of Masshad, IRNA says, adding that the rulings were subject to appeal. According to Iranian authorities, the accused form part of an opposition group called "Restart," which was established by Mohammad Hosseini, a onetime game show host on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? , who has gone into exile. He is alleged to have called on social media for Iranians to attack mosques, banks and centers run by the Basij, a hardline militia linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. In October, several banks in relatively affluent northern Tehran were targeted in nighttime attacks. At least 25 people were killed in a wave of social unrest that swept towns and cities across Iran between December 28 and January 1. |
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