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Iran hangs three over deadly mosque bombing
 [Al Arabiya Latest] Iran executed in public on Saturday three men convicted of involvement in a bomb attack on a mosque that killed 25 people, the official IRNA news agency reported.The bombing in a crowded Shiite mosque on Thursday evening wounded more than 120 people in the southeastern city of Zahedan, two weeks before a presidential election in the Islamic Republic. "Three people convicted of being involved in the recent terrorist bombing in Zahedan were hanged in public on Saturday morning," IRNA said, adding that the executions took place near the mosque where the bombing took place. "The terrorists Haji Noti Zehi, Gholam Rasoul Shahi Zehi and Zabihollah Naroui were hanged at 6:20 am (0130 GMT) near the Amir al-Momenin mosque in public IRNA quoted the official, Sistan-Baluchestan judiciary public relations chief Hojatoeslam Ebrahim Hamidi, as saying." "They confessed to illegally bringing explosives into Iran and giving them to the main person behind the bombing." Posted by: Fred 2009-05-31 |
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