The Sunni extremist group Jaish-ul Adl has claimed responsibility for the assassination of a public prosecutor in Iran's restive southeast, media reports said Thursday. The reports came a day after Mousa Nouri, prosecutor of the city of Zabol which lies near the Afghan border in Sistan-Baluchestan province, was gunned down in a "terrorist attack," ...

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Tehran The Iranian authorities on Saturday hanged 16 "rebels" following overnight clashes in which 14 border guards were killed on the frontier with Pakistan, a judicial official said. "Sixteen rebels linked to groups hostile to the regime were hanged this morning in the prison of Zahedan in response to the death of border guards in Saravan," Mohammad ...