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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Nov. 06 –
Iranian authorities hanged a political prisoner in public on Sunday in the
south-eastern province
of Sistan-va-Baluchestan
for his alleged role in the killing of two of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s
bodyguards.
Mohammad Askani was hanged in public in the town
of Iran-Shahr,
the official news agency IRNA reported. He was charged with taking part in
the killing of the two presidential guards.
On December 15, 2005, rebels attacked the presidential motorcade near the
city of Zabol
during a visit by Ahmadinejad to the impoverished
province.
Separately, another man called Najibollah Qayoumi was hanged in public on Sunday, IRNA reported,
bringing the total number of officially-announced executions in the
province to 11 during the past week.
Qayoumi was accused of drug trafficking.
Iranian authorities routinely execute dissidents on the bogus charge of
drug smuggling.
A man identified as Mohebali Gholamian
Moqaddam was hanged in Zabol,
IRNA reported on Thursday.
The semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Thursday that two “troublemakers”
accused of being Mofsed-o-fel-Arz (meaning
corruptors of society, whose blood can be spilled) were hanged in the
provincial capital Zahedan.
The two men, identified as Hadi Daryakesh Naroui and Azizollah Najjarian, were
hanged in public on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the hard-line daily reported that six men were hanged in
public in Zahedan for “instigating trouble”.
The report stated that three “trouble-makers” were hanged in front of a
crowd of several thousand people Monday morning. The men, identified as Mohsen Sargolzaee, Nader Kaharzehi, and Maijd Kaharzehi, were charged
with kidnapping, shooting, and spreading fear in society and declared to be
Mofsed-o-fel-Arz.
The same report said that another three men, identified as Behzad Naroui, Mohammad Amin Hormozi, and Abdollah Sheikh Hassani, were hanged in public in Zahedan
Monday afternoon.
Sistan-va-Baluchestan has been a hotbed of
anti-government activities since 2005.
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.
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