News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
Forty-two people died in Iran's worst suicide bombing when two rebels targeted a meeting involving members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards...For years it has waged an insurgency against Iran's Shiite authorities, claiming persecution and...
News Source: Press TV
| about 1 month ago
Police commander of the Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan Gholam-Ali Nekou'ei told Fars News Agency that "Abdolhamid Rigi, a member of Rigi's terrorist group was hanged yesterday morning in the main prison of Zahedan [the capital of Sistan-...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
Rigi had been convicted of various charges, including moharebe or staging war against God, punishable by death sentence under Iran''s Islamic law. Jundollah (God''s soldiers) claimed responsibility for the Oct. 18 attack in Iran''s impoverished...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
Officials named the man as Abdolhamid Rigi, but said he was not the brother of Jundullah's leader, who has the same name, the semi-official agency said. Jundullah have been blamed for several attacks in Sistan-Baluchistan province. Last month 42...
News Source: Zawya Political
| about 1 month ago
Iran has hanged a convicted member of the Sunni rebel group Jundallah (Soldiers of God), which claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing in the southeast last month, the Fars news agency reported on Tuesday. "Abdolhamid Rigi was hanged...
News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| about 1 month ago
Iran hangs a member of Sunni rebel group Jundollah Iran said on Tuesday it had executed a convicted member of the Jundollah Sunni rebel group, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a senior police official as saying. "Abdolhamid Rigi, who is...