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Iran hangs man
accused of taking part in recent bombing
Mon. 19 Feb 2007
Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 – Iranian
authorities in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-eastern
Iran, hanged a man in public on Monday for his alleged role in Wednesday’s
deadly bombing of a bus belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
(IRGC).
Nasrollah Shanbe-Zehi was hanged at the site of the bombing in the city of
Zahedan after being sentenced to death by a local branch of the
revolutionary court.
State media reported that 11 IRGC members died in last week’s attack and 31
others were left injured.
The governor of Zahedan Hassan-Ali Nouri had earlier accused agents of the
“Global Arrogance”, or United States, of carrying out the attack. His
comments were mirrored by Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini,
who said that an investigation into the attack found that it was
masterminded from abroad.
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Iran hangs man for attack on bus
19 February 2007
news.bbc
Mr Zehi was said to have been arrested shortly after the bombing
Iran has executed a man over a bomb attack that killed 11 members of its
elite Revolutionary Guards last week.
Nasrollah Shanbe Zehi was publicly hanged at the scene of the attack in the
south-eastern city of Zahedan.
He had been shown on TV confessing to involvement in Wednesday's bombing and
was convicted by a Zahedan court.
The attack occurred when a car packed with bombs stopped next to a bus
taking the soldiers to work. Militant group Jundallah claimed the bombing.
Crowds chanted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" as they watched the
hanging. It took place in the same location as the crime, something which
correspondents say is common in Iran.
Recorded footage of the execution was shown on state TV.
Earlier this week, the TV showed Mr Zehi - who was reportedly arrested a few
hours after the bombing - confessing to the bombings.
The Sunni Muslim Jundallah group has been blamed for previous attacks on
Iranian military personnel.
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Statement of People's Resistance
Movement of Iran (former Jondollah of Iran) to Media & International
community
After our recent defensive measures to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran
from the genocide of Baloch people, some news media have published certain
allegations that we categorically reject.
People's Resistance Movement of
Iran (former Jondollah of Iran) is a defensive organization that has been
formed to campaign for freedom and democracy in Iran and to protect the
Baloch people and other religious and ethnic minorities.
Our mission is to change the present regime and establish a new system in
Iran in which every Iranian enjoys equal opportunity and equal rights. We
have undertaken to accept the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and all
other United Nations conventions on resolutions. We only act in self-defence
and whenever the Iranian regime kills an innocent Iranian, we act in
accordance to all United Nations conventions that allow people and nations
to defend themselves against aggression and genocide.
We strive to force the Iranian regime to abandon its brutal policies against
the Baloch people and other Iranian citizens. We campaign to stop
discrimination, brutality, injustice, corruption and ethnic cleansing in
Iran .
We categorically announce that we have no any kind of relationships and
links with Alqaedah, Taleban and other fundamentalist groups. We
categorically announce that we have no any kind of relationships with
foreign countries including the United States of America and the United
Kingdom. We do not receive any support, arms, ammunition, training and
financial help from any country. In such conditions it is not easy for us to
live peacefully. Yet, we have been able to maintain our independence in such
important geopolitical centre and battlefield.
The fact that the Iranian regime labels us as the agents of Taleban,
Alqaedah, the United States of America and the United Kingdom clearly
demonstrates that we cannot be part of Taleban and a friend of America at
the same time. We cannot be a member of Alqaedah and also a friend of United
Kingdom and other Western countries. The Iranian regime has underestimated
the potentials of the Baluch people and therefore, has to find an excuse for
the killing of the Baloch people. We have a moral right to defend ourselves,
our community, our nation and our country. It is the Iranian regime that is
dealing with different terrorist groups and foreign countries.
Thousands of Baloch people have been killed by Iranian regime and so far the
United Nations and other international organizations have never raised their
voice against the discrimination and genocide that the Islamic Republic of
Iran has been committing in our land. We were a civil society that was
forced into armed struggle by the Iranian regime. We commit ourselves to
restart our civil campaign as soon as the conditions in Iran allows.
As our recent operations proved that the Iranian regime is too weak to
defend itself. It is much less powerful than what it pretends to be. The
Iranian security guards and their elite have become aware of the regime's
brutality and corruption and therefore, they are not prepared to defend this
regime anymore. All of those security forces that have been arrested by us
have confessed that the Iranian regime is financing terrorism in the region
because it is too weak from within to defend itself and therefore, it needs
other proxies to defend it.
People's Resistance Movement of Iran
(former Jondollah of Iran)
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Greater Balochistan National
Congress condemns the unjust trail and subsequent execution of Mr. Nasrollah
Shanbehzai.
Press Statement: February 20,
2007
Mr Nasrollah Shanbehzai was arrested from his home following the bomb
explosion in Zahedan on 14 February 2007 and tortured severely for two days
to force a confession out of him. The scars of the torture were clearly
visible when he was displayed before a local TV to read a written
confession.
Within a years time 418 Baloch have been executed bay the fundamentalist
Islamic regime of Iran with out proper trials and legal representations.
Greater Balochistan National Congress (GBNC) condoms in strongest words the
summary trail and execution of Mr. Nasrollah Shanbehzai and remind the
international society that their ignorant attitude has directly encouraged
the Iranian regime to intensify the aggression against the Baloch. There is
a need for urgent intervention in order to force Iranian regime to stop
indiscriminate slaughtering of Baloch civilians under the pretext of
terrorism, smugglers or obstacles to peace and harmony.
GBNC also expresses displeasure on the statements issued from the offices of
UN secretary general Mr.Ban Ki-moon and that issued by Mr. Javier Solana the
head the European Union Foreign Policy in favor of Iranian regime regarding
the 14 February attack on criminal revolutionary guards of the Iran.
Greater Balochistan National Congress
Dozap (Zahidan) - Balochistan
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Iran says it has
killed 17 rebels, accuses U.S. of provoking tensions on its borders
The Associated Press
Published: February 24, 2007
http://www.iht.com
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran's elite
Revolutionary Guards said it killed 17 rebels in northwestern Iran on the
border with Turkey and quickly accused the United States and its allies of
seeking to provoke tensions along the country's borders.
In a statement, the Guards said 17 "counter-revolutionary mercenaries" were
killed, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported on Saturday.
The statement did not name a specific Iranian opposition group or provide
more details about the incident, IRNA reported. But the Kurdish opposition
group PEJAK, which stands in Kurdish for the "Party of Free Life of
Kurdistan," has been involved in sporadic armed clashes with Iranian forces
in the past two years.
Later Saturday, Iranian state television reported that a Guards' helicopter
crashed in the area, giving bad weather as the reason. It did not say
whether anyone had died.
The Guards chief, Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, said the U.S., Britain and Israel
were seeking to incite tension on Iran's borders to undermine the government
in Tehran, IRNA reported.
"Greedy enemies ... the Americans, the British and the Zionist regime,
having seen their objectives fail in the Middle East and region, are seeking
to incite insecurity on Iran's borders," IRNA quoted Safavi as saying.
Safavi also vowed to crush the rebels.
"Iran's enemies, through hiring some mercenaries and with their wishful
thinking, want to create instability but ... the armed forces will strongly
suppress anti-revolutionaries and rebels who are dependent to foreigners,"
Safavi was quoted by IRNA as saying.
Iran has faced several ethnic and religious insurgencies and armed attacks
by opposition groups on some of its borders in recent years — though none
have amounted to a serious threat to the government.
A bomb explosion in southeastern Iran earlier this month killed 11 members
of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. A Sunni Muslim militant group called
Jundallah, or God's Brigade, which has been blamed for past attacks on
Iranian troops, claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Besides the sporadic violence in the southeast, ethnic Arab Sunni militants
have been blamed for bombings in the southwestern city of Ahvaz — including
blasts in 2006 that killed nine people. Iranian Kurds based in northern Iraq
have also stepped up incursions into Iran.
The Revolutionary Guards' accusation against the U.S. and its allies comes
amid growing tensions between Tehran and Washington over insurgency in Iraq
and Iran's controversial nuclear activities.
The United States and several of its Western allies fear that Iran is using
its nuclear program to produce an atomic weapon — charges Iran denies,
saying its aim is to generate electricity.
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