Iran Executes Two Members of Mujahideen-e-Khalq Group
Iran executed two members of the banned Mujahideen-e-Khalq group for attacking civilian infrastructure with homemade projectiles, the judiciary news outlet Mizan said on Sunday.
Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani-Eslamloo, identified as “operational elements” of the MEK, were sentenced to death in September 2024 – a verdict upheld by the Supreme Court, which denied their request for a retrial, Mizan said.
“The terrorists, in coordination with MEK leaders, had built launchers and hand-held mortars in line with the group’s goals, fired projectiles heedlessly at citizens, homes, service and administrative facilities, educational and charity centers,” the report said.
The defendants were indicted with destroying public property and “membership in a terrorist organization with the aim of disrupting national security.”
The MEK, known in English as People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran, was a powerful leftist-militant group that staged bombing campaigns against the shah’s government and US targets in the 1970s but ultimately fell out with the other factions of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Since then, the MEK has opposed Iran and its leadership in exile has been Paris-based. The group was listed as a terrorist organization by the US and the European Union until 2012.
