Iran executes Swedish-Iranian dual national: State media

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Habib Farajollah Chaab was sentenced to dying over his function with a separatist group alleged to have carried out a lethal assault.

Iran has executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident convicted of main an Arab separatist group accused of assaults, together with one on a navy parade in 2018 that killed 25 individuals, state media has reported.

Habib Farajollah Chaab was sentenced to dying for being “corrupt on earth”, a capital offence below Iran’s strict Islamic legal guidelines, Reuters information company reported.

State broadcaster IRIB reported his execution on Saturday.

“The dying sentence for Habib Chaab… nicknamed Habib Asyud, the top of Harakat al-Nidal terrorist group… was executed in the present day, Saturday morning,” the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan On-line web site reported.

In March, Iran’s Supreme Court docket upheld the Iranian-Swedish dissident’s dying sentence for alleged “terrorist” actions associated to the Arab separatist group referred to as the Arab Wrestle Motion for the Liberation of Ahwaz, which seeks a separate state within the oil-rich Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran. He was discovered responsible of plotting and finishing up “quite a few bombings and terrorist operations”.

Iran has had tense relations with its ethnic minorities, which embrace Arabs, Kurds, Azeris and Baluch, and has accused them of aligning with neighbouring nations.

Arabs and different minorities have lengthy complained of dealing with discrimination in Iran, an accusation Tehran denies.

Iran stated in 2020 that its safety forces arrested Sweden-based Chaab in Turkey and took him to Tehran, with out saying the place or how he was captured.

Sweden had voiced concern over Chaab’s case.

Ties with Iran have additionally soured over a Swedish court docket’s life-time jail sentence for a former Iranian official for involvement within the mass execution of political prisoners in 1988 within the Islamic Republic.