Iran stated Tuesday (June 11, 2025) it executed nine militants of the Islamic State group detained after a 2018 attack.
The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan information company introduced the executions, saying that the dying sentences had been upheld by the nation’s high courtroom.
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It described the militants as being detained after they have been in a conflict within the nation’s western area with Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, wherein three troops and several other IS fighters have been killed. Authorities stated they’d seized a cache of fight weapons, together with a machine gun and 50 grenades, after surrounding the militants’ hideout.
Iran carries out executions by hanging. In the previous eight months, it has executed a mean of 1 individual each six hours, in response to Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of advocacy group Iran Human Rights.
He stated Tuesday’s executions have been issued with out honest trials and that there have been no updates about seven others reportedly detained within the 2018 attack.
IS, which as soon as held huge territory throughout Iraq and Syria in a self-described caliphate it declared in 2014, was finally overwhelmed again by U.S.-led forces.
It has since been in disarray, although it has mounted main assaults. In Iran’s neighbor Afghanistan, for example, IS is believed to have grown in energy because the fall of the Western-backed authorities there to the Taliban in 2021.
The group beforehand claimed a June 2017 attack in Tehran on parliament and a mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that killed at the very least 18 folks and wounded greater than 50. It has claimed different assaults in Iran, together with two suicide bombings in 2024 concentrating on a commemoration for an Iranian basic slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike. That assault killed at the very least 94 folks.
The conflict with Revolutionary Guardsmen in 2018 marked a level of heightened tensions between Iran and the militant group. Iran launched ballistic missiles at components of jap Syria, vowing revenge after militants disguised themselves as troopers and opened hearth at a army parade within the Islamic Republic’s southwest. That attack killed at the very least 25 folks and was claimed by each IS and native separatists.
But Tehran’s hand in Syria was weakened with the autumn final yr of President Bashar Assad, a key ally. Analysts say IS might benefit from the safety vacuum to stage a comeback whereas Syria’s new leaders are nonetheless consolidating their management over the nation and forming a nationwide military.
Published – June 11, 2025 09:21 am IST
