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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
The defendants were indicted with destroying public property and “membership in a terrorist organization with the aim of disrupting national security.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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