Iran hangs Sunni rebel group members

Iran’s state radio said authorities have hanged in public 14 members of a Sunni Muslim rebel group blamed for bombings and killings in southeastern Iran.

Iran’s state radio said authorities have hanged in public 14 members of a Sunni Muslim rebel group blamed for bombings and killings in southeastern Iran.

Today’s report said the executions took place in the city of Zahedan, some 930 miles southeast of Iran’s capital Tehran.

The 14 included Abdulhamid Rigi, brother of Abdulmalik Rigi, the leader of Jundallah, or soldiers of God, a Sunni Muslim group that Iran said has close ties to “foreign forces” in neighbouring Afghanistan, a possible reference to the al-Qaida terror group.

It quoted Zahedan’s prosecutor, Mohammad Marzieh, as saying the men were hanged for killing dozens of civilians and policemen and for bombings in the area.

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