TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran hanged three men on Friday for their involvement in a bombing inside a packed mosque that killed 14 people nearly a year ago, the official IRNA news agency reported. The three, who were not identified, were hanged in Abdel Abad prison in the southern city of Shiraz near where the attack occurred, the agency said. The sentencing was carried out after Iran's Supreme Court upheld the guilty verdicts against them.
Iran's Revolutionary Court found the three men guilty in November for their involvement in the April 12 bombing that also wounded more than 200 people. The court, which handles state security cases, also found the three guilty of having links to the United States and planning to destabilize Iran through a campaign of bombings and assassinations. It said they had confessed.
According to the court, the three said they were members of the Iran Royal Association, a little known monarchist group that wants to overthrow the country's ruling Islamic establishment.
Which is enough regardless of whether or not they ever threw a bomb.
The mosque that was bombed is part of the Rahpouyan-e-Vesal cultural center in Shiraz, about 550 miles (885 kilometers) south of Iran's capital, Tehran. The mosque was packed with about 1,000 worshippers at the time of the explosion.
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Iranian Army commander General Atqollah Salehe said Friday the Islamic Republic planned to intensify production of modern fighters.
Salehe, quoted by Iran's Fars news agency, said the Iranian people would see the largest and "most destructive" submarine in the region, affirming Tehran's success in its deterrence against foreign threats.
General Salehe announced the holding of an exhibition of the ground forces to display achievements of the troops.
With the new year, he added, Iran would produce modern jet fighters, and that Tehran has programs to manufacture submarines and underwater equipment to be added to Iran's satellite.
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largest and "most destructive" submarine in the region
They gonna put the Revolutionary Guards on an oil tanker and sink it?
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I didn't know the Iranians could make seagoing nuclear reactors, and put them into something that could outdo a Los Angeles class sub.
Besides, it is hard to hide submarine construction from prying satellite eyes, especially when it takes quite a while to build a large submarine. And especially when you don't have any real experience doing it. The ocean is very unforgiving when you are motoring around under the surface.
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Tehran has programs to manufacture submarines and underwater equipment to be added to Iran's satellite.
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah categorically denied Friday that the Lebanese party has intentions to undermine Egypt's security.
Nasrallah was reacting to accusations by the Egyptian public prosecutor that a person identified as Sami Shehab tried to carry out acts undermining security of Egypt. Shehab is a member in Hezbollah, Nasrallah admitted, but added that he was "carrying out logistic work on the Egyptian-Palestinian borders in favor of the resistance and to transfer equipment and individuals to the Palestinian brothers."
Egypt's public prosecutor Justice Abdulmajeed Mahmoud said interrogations were underway with a new 49-member organization financed by the Lebanese Hezbollah, accused of planning to carry out "hostile" actions inside Egypt.
These accusations, said Nasrallah, "aim at arousing the Egyptian people and to say that Hezbollah wants to do sabotage acts in Egypt. They (those who made the accusations) want to tarnish the picture of Hezbollah in Egypt ... (But) it is normal that Hezbollah and the resistant movement are highly respected by the Egyptian people ...," he said.
Nasrallah said Shehab collaborated "with people whose number does not reach 10 persons and many of the arrestees have no relation with him." Nasrallah said: "if helping the Palestinians whose lands are occupied and they are the onse getting killed and starved is a crime, then I officially confess of this crime." Hezbollah, asserted Nasrallah, "does not seek a conflict with the Egyptian regime." The Lebanese cleric had, during the Israeli onslaught against Gaza Strip, urged the Egyptian people and armed forces "to exercise pressure on the political leadership" to open the Rafah crossing. But Cairo considered this a "declaration of war on the Egyptian people," and accused Nasrallah of being "an agent of the Iranian regime." Nasrallah said Hezbollah's sole objective was to liberate and protect the Lebanese territories from the Israeli threats.
Nasrallah brushed aside reports suggesting that Hezbollah was supporting groups in Yemen and Bahrain, calling on the Arab people and governments not to hold Hezbollah "the responsibilities bigger than its country, circumstances and capabilities."
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HMMMMMM - the SOMALI PIRACY. "SCUD DIPLOMACY" > active defense/fallback to under LR Iranian or Other defense umbrellas, ee CHINA'S ANTI-NAVAL/CARRIER MISSLES???
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Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah categorically denied Friday that the Lebanese party has intentions to undermine Egypt's security...yet.
There, fixed that.
Mike
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Iranian Army commander General Atqollah Salehe said Friday the Islamic Republic planned to intensify production of modern fighters.
