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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Sep. 25 –
Iranian authorities have hanged four men in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchestan,
according to a state-run daily.
The four men, identified as Shah Mohammad, Nader Reigi, Abdol-Ali Baluch, and Mohammad Shakib,
were hanged on Saturday in Zahedan Prison, the
hard-line daily Khorassan wrote on Sunday.
Iran’s
judiciary in Zahedan also sentenced two women and
one man to execution.
Zahedan is the provincial capital of Sistan-va-Baluchestan which has been a hotbed of
anti-government activities.
In recent months, Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the
restive province in what many Baluchis believe is a
response to a spate of attacks by dissidents on government and security
officials.
In the north-eastern city of Mashad, the judiciary sentenced
a man, identified only by his first name Hossein, to execution.
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