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Iran - A village’s entire male population executed
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The entire male population of a village in Iran has been executed news agencies report. Earlier, Iran Rights Transparency reported about Iran's overseas spy operations, and direct involvement of Revolutionary Guard in exporting drugs to EU and Arabic

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IRT - The entire male population of a village in Iran has been executed, news agencies report. The executions have been carried out for alleged involvement in drug trafficking, according to a source inside Iranian cabinet.
According to Euronews Shahindokht Molaverdi, a vice-president of Iran responsible for Women and Family Affairs, said in an interview to the Mehr news agency that she fears violence could worsen in the unnamed village in the Sistan and Baluchistan province.
The agency quoted the vice-president “The children of the executed criminals are also already drug traffickers. They want to avenge the deaths of their fathers. At the same time they are feeding their families with money from the drugs trade and the people of this village can not be protected.”
Euronews reported Sistan and Baluchestan province shares thousands of kilometres of land border with neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan and is a key smuggling point for opium and other narcotics. Largely underdeveloped and poor, a large part of the local population relies on the drugs trade for income. In recent years the area has become a base for Sunni, mainly Salafist extremist groups originating in Pakistan. Both drug traffickers and Sunni extremists have been main targets of a strict crackdown led by the Iranian government.
The agency did not report exact number of men executed in the province, but Sistan and Baluchestan figures among the Iranian provinces that applies capital punishment most often.
“If we do not act against these people, crime will return,” said Molaverdi. “Society is responsible for the families of those executed. Although the family support programme was neglected for several years, it has now been relaunched as part of the sixth national development plan.”
Euronews concludes, Iran is among the countries that carries out the death penalty most frequently, and many of those sentenced to death are done so for drug-related crimes. The country’s national assembly recently launched a bill that would see drug offences punished by life imprisonment rather than death.
On the other hand observers believe, crimes and smuggling are basically rooted in the deep deprivation of regional Iran, where people lack any chance of employment, pushing them to pursue illegal ways to feed their families.
The impoverished areas of Baluchistan, lack basic services, while they serve most of natural resources transferred to central Iran, with its high standard metropolitans.
The Iranian clerics spent hundreds billion dollars to support insurgent affiliated groups in most of Middle East countries and pursue nuclear bomb, but don't allocate budget to improve lives of people in Baluchistan.
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Earlier, Iran Rights Transparency - IRT reported about Iran's overseas spy operations, and direct involvement of Iranian Revolutionary Guard in exporting drugs to Arabic and European countries.
25 February 2016 4:57 AM 161,750 views
Iran - A village’s entire male population executed
31,059
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BY JAMAL EKHTIAR
Iran Rights Transparency
The entire male population of a village in Iran has been executed news agencies report. Earlier, Iran Rights Transparency reported about Iran's overseas spy operations, and direct involvement of Revolutionary Guard in exporting drugs to EU and Arabic

Public executions in Iran. Web photo
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IRT - The entire male population of a village in Iran has been executed, news agencies report. The executions have been carried out for alleged involvement in drug trafficking, according to a source inside Iranian cabinet.
According to Euronews Shahindokht Molaverdi, a vice-president of Iran responsible for Women and Family Affairs, said in an interview to the Mehr news agency that she fears violence could worsen in the unnamed village in the Sistan and Baluchistan province.
The agency quoted the vice-president “The children of the executed criminals are also already drug traffickers. They want to avenge the deaths of their fathers. At the same time they are feeding their families with money from the drugs trade and the people of this village can not be protected.”
Euronews reported Sistan and Baluchestan province shares thousands of kilometres of land border with neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan and is a key smuggling point for opium and other narcotics. Largely underdeveloped and poor, a large part of the local population relies on the drugs trade for income. In recent years the area has become a base for Sunni, mainly Salafist extremist groups originating in Pakistan. Both drug traffickers and Sunni extremists have been main targets of a strict crackdown led by the Iranian government.
The agency did not report exact number of men executed in the province, but Sistan and Baluchestan figures among the Iranian provinces that applies capital punishment most often.
“If we do not act against these people, crime will return,” said Molaverdi. “Society is responsible for the families of those executed. Although the family support programme was neglected for several years, it has now been relaunched as part of the sixth national development plan.”
Euronews concludes, Iran is among the countries that carries out the death penalty most frequently, and many of those sentenced to death are done so for drug-related crimes. The country’s national assembly recently launched a bill that would see drug offences punished by life imprisonment rather than death.
On the other hand observers believe, crimes and smuggling are basically rooted in the deep deprivation of regional Iran, where people lack any chance of employment, pushing them to pursue illegal ways to feed their families.
The impoverished areas of Baluchistan, lack basic services, while they serve most of natural resources transferred to central Iran, with its high standard metropolitans.
The Iranian clerics spent hundreds billion dollars to support insurgent affiliated groups in most of Middle East countries and pursue nuclear bomb, but don't allocate budget to improve lives of people in Baluchistan.
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Earlier, Iran Rights Transparency - IRT reported about Iran's overseas spy operations, and direct involvement of Iranian Revolutionary Guard in exporting drugs to Arabic and European countries.
