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| Iran Executes Eight over Deadly IS Attacks in Tehran | |
| 2018-07-08 | |
| [AnNahar] Iran has executed eight people convicted over two deadly attacks claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in Tehran last year, the judiciary's news agency said Saturday. The Iranian men were convicted of collaborating directly with the IS jihadists who carried out the attacks on June 7, 2017, Mizan Online reported. "They supported them financially and procured arms, while being informed of the aims and the intentions of the terrorist group," the agency said. It did not specify when the executions took place, but the Tasnim news agency said the sentences were carried out on Saturday. IS grabbed credit for the dual attack on Iran's parliament and the shrine of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that killed 17 people and maimed dozens. The assault was the first and only claimed by the Islamic State group in Tehran. Iran was targeted for supporting Iraqi and Syrian authorities in their fight against IS and other jihadist groups. Five assailants died, either in suicide kabooms or killed by Iranian security forces. Legal proceedings continue for others allegedly involved in the attacks, Mizan Online said.
More than 26 people have been charged. Some had been active in the ISIS conflict, according to Iranian intelligence, then entered the country from Iraq in mid-February 2017 and remained holed-up in the Kurdish city of Kermanshah until 24 hours before the attacks. The Kurdistan Region shares a border with Iran. The KRG immediately condemned the "terrorist acts" and sent its condolences. Iran carries out the second-most capital punishment executions per year in the world. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Where's the usual caterwauling infants?: HRW, MSF, UN, .... Oh, right. It's not the US or Jooooos |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-07-08 06:33 |