Iran specifies the death sentences for Shiraz shrine attacks

The Iranian judiciary announced on Sunday that three people were sentenced to death in connection with the fatal terrorist attacks on the revered Shah Cherago mausoleum in Shiraz. AFP reported.

The statements come from two separate shooting incidents in October 2022 And August 2023who jointly demanded the life of 15 people in the prominent Shiite shrine in the capital of the province of Fars. Both brutal attacks were claimed by the ISIS group (Islamic State (ISIS).

Fars Chief Justice Sadrollah Rajaei-Nasab, as cited by the judiciary Mizan Online Website confirmed the serious punishments. “Three of these defendants were sentenced to death because they were convicted of support and employment in corruption on earth after the procedure at the Shiraz Revolutionary Court. In addition to the death penalty, this person received 25-year prison sentences because they” supported and talented in Moharebeh “, a serious crime in Iranian legal law, which means hostility to God.

Further convictions were issued against other alleged members of the jihadist ISIS. Two people were sentenced to 15 years and 10 years in prison, with their conditions based on their cooperation and their influence on Shah Cheragh's terrorist facilities.

In a remarkable aspect of the judgments, two women who were involved in the case were given five years in prison. However, their sentences should “be served under Islamic fortune, monitored by electronic ankle arm ribbons and within a kilometer radius of their houses,” said Rajaei-Nasab.

These latest sentences follow earlier judicial acts on the shrine attacks. In July 2023, Iran Two men are publicly executed For their roles at the first attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine. After the second attack in August 2023, the judiciary confirmed that security forces had arrested nine people who were all foreign nationals. Then a Tajik Isis member was sentenced to death In the following month in connection with this incident.