Iran has sentenced three men to death for being involved in the fatal bombing of a mosque that killed 14 Iranians in the southern city of Shiraz in April, the hard-line Kayhan newspaper reported on Saturday. Iran has accused the United States, Britain and Israel of being behind the blast that also injured 200 others.
Rouzbeh Yahyazadeh, 32, Mohsen Eslamian, 21, and Ali Asghar Pashtar, 20, will be hanged in Shiraz after the Supreme Court upheld their sentences, said Ali Akbar Haidarifar, representative of Tehran's prosecutor. Haidarifar, who previously accused the three of being sent on a mission by Israeli intelligence services to carry out assassinations and military sabotage in Iran, did not say when the verdict was issued.
"A Tehran Revolutionary court has found the three guilty as 'mohareb' (one who wages war against God) and 'corrupt on the earth'," Kayhan newspaper quoted Haidarifar as saying. Under Iranian law, all execution orders must be upheld by Iran's Supreme Court. "After their verdicts being upheld by the Supreme Court, the three will be hanged in Shiraz," he added.