IRAN: THREE PEOPLE HANGED OVER 2008 MOSQUE BOMBING

April 10, 2009: Iran executed three people, two of them University students, convicted of being involved in the bombing of a mosque in the southern city of Shiraz which killed 14 people and injured 200 others in April 2008.
Mohsen Eslamian, 21, Ali Asghar Pashtar, 20, and Rouzbeh Yahyazadeh, 32 had been charged on November 2008 as 'mohareb' or God's enemy, by a revolutionary court in the capital Tehran, said Iranian state news agency IRNA. The court had accused the defendants of having links to the Iran Royal Association, a monarchist opposition group outside Iran and of taking orders from an Iranian US-based CIA agent to try to assassinate a top official in Iran.
The authorities also accused the group of seeking to overthrow the Islamic regime in Iran and blamed the United States for arming and training those behind the blast and said Israel and Britain were also involved.
The three men were hanged in the city's Adelabad prison. The mosque that was bombed is part of the Rahpouyan-e-Vesal cultural center in Shiraz, about 550 miles (885 kilometers) south of Iran's capital, Tehran. The mosque was packed with about 1,000 worshippers at the time of the explosion. Since the beginning of 2009 some 100 people have been hanged in Iran, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran. (Fonti: AKI, AP, 10/04/2009)