Kurdish fighter Saman Mohammadi was also hanged for killing a Muslim leader, the Mizan News Agency reports.Iran has executed six fighters accused of waging armed attacks in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, according to state media, as the country continues its accelerated executions of people it says have ties to Israel following the 12-day June conflict with Israel and the United States.“The death sentence for six separatist terrorist elements, who in recent years had carried out a series of armed operations and bombings targeting security in Khuzestan province, was carried out at dawn today,” the judiciary said on its Mizan website on Saturday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe identities of all those executed and details of their arrests and sentencing were not immediately clear.But Mizan reported that they were involved in the killings of four security personnel, including two police officers and two members of the Basij paramilitary force, in 2018 and 2019.The report also said they had “confessed to planning and executing acts of sabotage such as making and planting bombs, blowing up the Khorramshahr gas station”.Iran usually links what it calls “separatist and terrorist” groups to its arch-nemesis, Israel.In a separate execution on Saturday, authorities hanged Kurdish fighter Saman Mohammadi after convicting him for “Moharebeh” – waging war against God.Mohammadi, arrested in 2013, was reportedly involved in the 2009 killing of the Friday prayers imam in the western city of Sanandaj, as well as in armed robberies and kidnappings, including the killing of a conscript.The executions came less than a week after Iran said it hanged Bah …
