TEHRAN -- Three men, convicted of launching a deadly terrorist attack against security forces in the central Iranian city of Isfahan during foreign-backed riots last year, have been executed, Mizan news agency reported on Friday.
The agency, affiliated with the Iranian Judiciary, announced the executions of Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi in the central city.
They were convicted of “moharebeh”, or “war against God”, for drawing a gun during a riot in Khaneh Esfahan town on November 16, 2022, leading to the martyrdom of two members of the Basij voluntary force and a law enforcement officer.
The executions were carried out after the Supreme Court of Iran upheld the death sentences against them.
Citing confessions of convicts in the court, Mizan noted that they were in contact with the terrorist Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), and carried out the terrorist attack upon orders from the Albania-based cult.
The court also handed imprisonment sentences to a number of other convicts of the case while dropping charges against another suspect.
Foreign-backed riots broke out in Iran in mid-September after the death of 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini. She fainted at a police station in the capital Tehran and was pronounced dead three days later at the hospital. An official report by Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization concluded that Amini’s death was caused by illness rather than alleged blows to the head or other vital body organs.
Iran’s intelligence community has said several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, have used their spy and propaganda apparatuses to provoke violent riots in the country.

Rioters went on a rampage, brutally attacking security officers and causing massive damage to public property.
On February 5, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei pardoned or commuted the sentences of a large number of Iranian prisoners who had been arrested during the riots. The Leader’s amnesty covered all but murderers and terrorists.