Iran Focus
Authorities hanged the men, identified only by their initials P.D., M.M. and V.A.R., in a prison in the provincial capital Zahedan on Saturday, the government-run news agency Fars reported.
The report said that the three men had been convicted of drug smuggling.
Iranian authorities routinely execute dissidents on bogus charges such as armed robbery and drug trafficking.
Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province is home to Baluchis, a predominantly Sunni Muslim ethnic minority.
Iran has witnessed escalating unrest since 2006 in areas populated by Baluchis, who complain of discriminatory and repressive policies by the theocratic regime.
Since 2006, Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the restive province in what many Baluchis believe is a response to a spate of attacks by dissidents on government and security officials.
