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Iran has enforced nine members of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group that were detained after a fatal clash with the country’s revolutionary security forces in 2018, state media reported on Tuesday.
According to the judicially run Mizan News Agency, the death penalty was upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court and was carried out by hanging.
The man reportedly was arrested after a clash in western Iran, where three members of a paramilitary revolutionary guard and several fighter jets were killed.
Iranian authorities said they have recovered a significant cache of weapons from extremist hideouts, including a machine gun and a 50-yard rena bullet.
The former host of the vast Iraqi and Syrian Swas under the self-styled caliph declared in 2014 lost much of its territory after a US-led allied campaign. However, they launched attacks throughout the region and became active.
The group also claims responsibility for several attacks within Iran, including the spirit US of Ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini, which left at least 18 and more than 50 injured in the Iranian parliament and the spirit US of Ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini in June 2017. The clashes with revolutionary security guards in 2018 marked a surge in tensions between Iran and IS.
Most recently, in 2024, two suicide bombings were billed to target a commemorative event for Kasem Soleimani, an Iranian general who was killed in a US drone strike in 2020. At least 94 people have been killed in the attacks by extremist groups.
Analysts say that following the fall of Bashar al-Assad last year, they could use the vacuum of Syrian security to stage a comeback while its new leader still consolidates the country’s control and forms the national army.
