TEHRAN: Iran executed two men on Saturday over an attack on a Shia shrine that killed at least 15 people in October, Iranian state media reported.
The two were hanged at dawn in the southern city of Shiraz. The men had said during their trial that they had been in contact with the militant group Islamic State in Afghanistan and helped organise the attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine in Shiraz.
The incident occurred in October 2022 when at least 15 people were killed and 40 others injured in an attack on the shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz.
CCTV footage broadcast on state TV showed an attacker entering the popular shrine after hiding an assault rifle in a bag and shooting as worshippers tried to flee and hide in corridors.
The gunman, identified as a citizen of Tajikistan, later died in a hospital from injuries sustained during the attack. Officials initially said 15 had been killed in the attack, but later revised the figure to 13.
Islamic State, which once posed a security threat across the Middle East, has claimed earlier violence in Iran, including deadly twin attacks in 2017 that targeted parliament and the tomb of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
