Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 Iranian authorities in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-eastern Iran, hanged a man in public on Monday for his alleged role in Wednesdays deadly bombing of a bus belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 Iranian authorities in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-eastern Iran, hanged a man in public on Monday for his alleged role in Wednesdays deadly bombing of a bus belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Nasrollah Shanbe-Zehi was hanged at the site of the bombing in the city of Zahedan after being sentenced to death by a local branch of the revolutionary court.
State media reported that 11 IRGC members died in last weeks attack and 31 others were left injured.
The governor of Zahedan Hassan-Ali Nouri had earlier accused agents of the Global Arrogance, or United States, of carrying out the attack. His comments were mirrored by Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, who said that an investigation into the attack found that it was masterminded from abroad.
