Iran executes two members of banned group for concentrating on infrastructure

Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani-Eslamloo, “operational elements” of the MEK, had been sentenced to dying in a verdict upheld by the Supreme Court, Mizan stated.

“The terrorists, in coordination with MEK leaders, had set up a team house in Tehran, where they built launchers and hand-held mortars in line with the group’s goals, fired projectiles heedlessly at citizens, homes, service and administrative facilities, educational and charity centres, and also carried out propaganda and information-gathering activities in support of the MEK,” the report stated.

The defendants had been indicted with “moharebeh”, an Islamic time period that means waging battle in opposition to God, destroying public property and “membership in a terrorist organisation with the aim of disrupting national security.”

Semi-official Mehr information company reported on Sunday (July 27), that Ehsani-Eslamloo had been arrested in 2022 following an explosion on the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology claimed by the MEK.

The MEK, identified in English as People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran, was a robust leftist-Islamist group that staged bombing campaigns in opposition to the shah’s authorities and U.S. targets within the Nineteen Seventies however finally fell out with the opposite factions of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Since then, the MEK has opposed the Islamic Republic, and its management in exile has been Paris-based. The group was listed as a terrorist organisation by the U.S. and the European Union till 2012.