Iran executes 8 attacks of the Islamic State in June 2017 against Tehran

Iran executed eight men convicted for the attack of the Islamic State in 2017 and the shrine of the Ayatollah founder of the Islamic Republic, the terrorist attack the More bloody that has hit Tehran for decades, […] until now was the only attack by Sunni extremists inside Shiite Iran, which was deeply involved in the wars in Iraq and Syria where militants once held a vast territory. EI has since been repelled by Iranian Shiite militias in Iraq, as well as by a US-led coalition operating in both countries, although Iran has made other arrests involving the group in time since.

The Mizan News Agency announced executions Saturday morning, but did not specify when and where they occurred. Tehran Justice Department chief Gholamhossein Esmaili told Iran's state television that the authorities had carried out the executions a few days earlier but had chosen not to announce them immediately, presumably as a security measure [19659003]. Mizan noted in his report that the executions took place after the eight men were tried and sentenced in a lawsuit that included eyewitness testimony and video footage showing their involvement in providing support for the attackers in the days leading up to the arrest. Aggression

. These eight men worked directly … to martyrise and injure a number of innocent compatriots, "Mizan said.

News agencies on Saturday called those who were executed: Soleiman Mozafari, Esmail Sufi, Rahman Behrouz, Majed Mortezai, Sirous Azizi and Ayoub Esmaili, Khosro Ramezani and Osman Behrouz More than a dozen others remain on trial during the attack

While Iran is one of the leading countries in the application of the death penalty, such mass executions are rare.In August 2016, human rights activists criticized Iran for carrying out the Mass execution of 20 Sunni activists sentenced from a group identified as Jihad and Tawhid after a six-year trial In August 2007, Iran hanged at the same time seven men convicted of raping Mashhad

The attack of the Islamic State of June 2017 made at least 18 dead and more than 50 wounded. complex complex where a legislative session had been going on, beginning a siege of several hours.

Meanwhile, gunmen and suicide bombers also knocked outside the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the southern suburbs of Tehran. Khomeini led the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Western Shah to become the first Iranian supreme leader until his death in 1989.

The attack shocked Tehran, which largely avoided militant attacks in the decades following the tumult Islamic Revolution. The image of a child coming out of a window in parliament under the surveillance of armed security forces remains etched in the minds of many.

The Iranian security forces reacted strongly. Authorities arrested suspected ISI militants, including their wives. In August 2017, the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence arrested 27 militants linked to the Islamic State group who planned to attack Shia holy cities in the country.

The Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard fought back by launching six ballistic missiles in eastern Syria. activists. It was the first time Iran had been firing its missiles of anger since the war against Iraq in the 1980s.

This raised new concerns in the West regarding its ballistic missile program as part of its nuclear deal with world powers. This agreement is now in danger of collapsing with the withdrawal of America from the agreement. Meanwhile, economic problems, lack of water and other problems have led to protests in Iran.

Iran remains one of the world's leading executioners. According to Amnesty International, the number of reported executions was the second in 2017 after the number of known executions, according to Amnesty International.

ISI executions come as the controversy in Iran continues around the mass executions of 1988 towards the end of the Iran-Iraq war. Activists at the time said that Iran had executed up to 5,000 people after mock trials against communists, Kurdish separatists, political prisoners and members of the government. group of Iranian exiles known as the Mujahideen-e-Khalq

. from the history of the post-revolution in Iran and still not recognized by his government

Gambrell reported in Dubai, UAE.