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Message: <blockquote data-quote="x-pert" data-source="post: 4759074" data-attributes="member: 837">Three men were hanged in public soon after dawn on Saturday in the Iranian city of Zahedan, just 36 hours after a bomb killed 25 worshippers at a mosque. By news agencies and Sunday Telegraph reporter Last Updated: 11:49AM BST 30 May 2009 The men were convicted of being "mohreb" (enemies of God) and    accused of belonging to a terrorist group allegedly backed by the United    States, which strongly denied involvement. The blast at Thursday evening prayers in the Shia mosque, two weeks before    crucial presidential elections, also injured 125, making it the worst loss    of life in an attack in Iran since the war with Saddam Hussein ended two    decades ago. The city is the capital of a troubled province on the borders of both Pakistan    and Afghanistan, home to a separatist insurgency supported by many from    Iran's Baluch minority, and a major trafficking route for opium smugglers. The men were also accused of being involved in a bomb attack in the city in    2007 which killed 13 revolutionary guards.   Jalal Sayyah, from the governor's office of the province, said: "The    terrorists, who were equipped by America in one of our neighbouring    countries, carried out this criminal act in their efforts to create    religious conflict and fear and to influence the presidential election."   After they were executed, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a statement    demanding that investigators quickly find and punish foreigners who he said    were behind the bombing, although he did not mention any nation by name.   US State Department spokesman Ian Kelly denied emphatically that Washington    was behind the attack, which it condemned.   He said: "We do not sponsor any form of terrorism in Iran and we continue    to work with the international community to try to prevent any attacks    against innocent civilians anywhere."   Iranian authorities have blamed a shadowy organisation called Jundollah for    attacks in Zahedan. The group claims to fight for the rights of Iran's Sunni    minority, but Iranians accuse it of being linked to al-Qaeda and backed by    the United States.<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5411660/Three-hanged-for-mosque-bombing-in-Iran.html" target="_blank">Ref</a></blockquote>

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