Tehran Court Sentences 16 Female Daesh Members to Jail

Date: 06 May 2018 - 21:32

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TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court has sentenced 16 female members of the Daesh terrorist group to jail.
Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi said Sunday the women who had moved to Syria to join Daesh and receive terrorist training were arrested upon return to Iran.
Based on the indictment, the women will have to both serve their prison terms and pay the money they received as salary from Daesh and undergo some other supplementary punishment, ISNA reported.
Last week, Iranian judiciary began the trial of 26 of Daesh members which targeted the Iranian parliament and the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini last year, killing 17 people.
Iran's security forces have also arrested a person linked to the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) who was planning to carry out acts of sabotage in the holy city of Mashhad.
Judge Hassan Heydari, deputy for political and security affairs at the prosecutor’s office in Mashhad, said the 37-year-old suspect sought to infiltrate certain guilds on the eve of Workers' Day and Teachers' Week in Iran.
"The suspect, who had long been under surveillance for contact with the agents of the terrorist group of the hypocrites (MKO), was arrested on a judicial order and the investigation continues," he said.
Peaceful protests over economic conditions in Mashhad last December quickly degenerated into unruly riots which spread into a few other towns, with authorities saying terrorist groups such as the MKO played a role.
The MKO has a dark history of assassinations and bombings against the Iranian government and nation. It notoriously sided with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his eight-year war against Iran in the 1980s.
The group has been behind most of the terrorist attacks which have claimed the lives of nearly 17,000 Iranians since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.
Initially designed as a terrorist organization by Europe and the U.S., the group has established close links with Western political parties.
In recent years, several media reports have emerged about top political figures in the U.S. and Europe receiving money from the MKO to speak favorably of the terrorist group.