Iran Executes Three Convicts of Zahedan Bombing

Iran executed three people who were convicted of carrying out suicide bombing attacks on security forces in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, on Monday, November 13. The convicts, executed by hanging, according to Iranian authorities, were connected to the Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni militant group. 

Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan chief justice, Ali Mostafavinia, told IRNA that the three men were executed for joining and cooperating with the militant group Jaish al-Adl. They confessed to receiving military training, transferring and hiding bomb-making materials, and participating in five bombing attacks, including two on Zahedan’s Enghelab Boulevard on February 13, 2019, which killed at least 27 members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), one unsuccessful bombing in Zabul, and two on a police station in Zahedan.