Iran Focus
The man identified as 32-year-old Abbas A. (alias Zabil) was hanged after he was convicted of armed robbery of livestock, the government-run news agency Fars reported on Monday.
Two other men identified as 45-year-old Hamid Kh. and 37-year-old Ali S. (alias Kabi) were also sentenced to death for taking part in the thefts.
The report said that their sentences would soon be carried out in public.
Ahwaz, the Arab-dominated provincial capital of oil-rich Khuzestan Province, has been the scene of unremitting anti-government protests since early 2005.
