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Iran hangs woman for killing her alleged rapist

Reyhaneh Jabbari defends herself in court in Tehran in December 2008 during the first hearing of her trial for the murder of a former intelligence officer. Jabbari, who claimed the officer had tried to sexually assault her, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2009. She was hanged Saturday. (Golara Sajadian, AFP/Getty Images)

TEHRAN, iran Iran hanged a woman on Saturday who was convicted of murdering a man she alleged had tried to rape her as a teenager, drawing swift international condemnation for a prosecution several countries described as flawed.

Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged at dawn for premeditated murder, the official IRNA news agency reported. It quoted a statement issued Saturday by the Tehran prosecutor office that rejected the claim of attempted rape and said that all evidence proved that Jabbari had plotted to kill Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a surgeon and a former intelligence agent.

The United Nations as well as Amnesty International and other human rights groups had called on Iran's judiciary to halt the execution, which was carried out after the country's Supreme Court upheld the verdict. The victim's family could have saved Jabbari's life by accepting blood money but refused to do so.

According to her 2009 sentencing, Jabbari, 26, stabbed Sarbandi in the back in 2007 after purchasing a knife two days earlier.

"The knife had been used on the back of the deceased, indicating the murder was not self-defense," the agency quoted the court ruling as saying.

Britain, Germany and a group of European parliamentarians, among others, condemned the execution, as did the United States.

"There were serious concerns with the fairness of the trial and the circumstances surrounding this case, including reports of confessions made under severe duress," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.

"We join our voice with those who call on Iran to respect the fair trial guarantees afforded to its people under Iran's own laws and its international obligations," she added.

IRNA said the police investigation found that Jabbari sent a text message to a friend saying she would kill Sarbandi three days before the deadly incident.

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Published October 25, 2014

In this picture taken on Dec. 15, 2008, Iranian Reyhaneh Jabbari, center, sits while attending her trial in a court in Tehran, Iran. Jabbari was hanged on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014, who was convicted of murdering a man she said was trying to rape her, the official IRNA news agency reported.(AP)

TEHRAN, Iran Iran hanged a woman on Saturday who was convicted of murdering a man she alleged was trying to rape her, drawing swift international condemnation for a prosecution several countries described as flawed.

Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged at dawn for premeditated murder, the official IRNA news agency reported. It quoted a statement issued by the Tehran Prosecutor Office Saturday that rejected the claim of attempted rape and said that all evidence proved that Jabbari had plotted to kill Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former intelligence agent.

The United Nations as well as Amnesty International and other human rights groups had called on Iran's judiciary to halt the execution, which was carried out after the country's Supreme Court upheld the verdict. The victim's family could have saved Jabbari's life by accepting blood money but they refused to do so.

According to her 2009 sentencing, Jabbari, 27, stabbed Sarbandi in the back in 2007 after purchasing a knife two days earlier.

"The knife had been used on the back of the deceased, indicating the murder was not self-defense," the agency quoted the court ruling as saying.

Britain, Germany, and a group of European parliamentarians, among others, condemned the execution, as did the United States.

"There were serious concerns with the fairness of the trial and the circumstances surrounding this case, including reports of confessions made under severe duress," State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.

"We join our voice with those who call on Iran to respect the fair trial guarantees afforded to its people under Iran's own laws and its international obligations," she added.

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Pakistan and Iran exchange mortar fire on border

MASHKAIL, Pakistan, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Pakistan and Iran traded mortar fire along the porous frontier between both countries Friday, highlighting tension between the two nations over border security.

The BBC reports that six mortar shells landed near the Pakistani town of Mashkail. A Pakistani official said that the rounds came from Iran, and Pakistan apparently fired back. No one was reported killed in the exchange.

Both nations have been at odds for years over the issue of Sunni militants staging attacks in Iran from safe havens in Pakistan along the southwest border, which constitutes the province of Baluchistan on the Pakistani side and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran.

Last week, 30 Iranian soldiers crossed over into Pakistan in pursuit of militants from Jaish Al-Adl (Army of Justice), a Sunni extremist group that advocates better living conditions for Iran's Sunni minority in Sistan Baluchistan.

A Pakistani soldier was killed in the incident, officials said.

Tehran has accused the government in Islamabad of either being complicit to the cross-border attacks or incompetent in stopping them.

Pakistan also faces border troubles with traditional adversary India. At least 17 people were killed and several others wounded this month in exchanges of fire from both sides of the Kashmir border area.

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Iran. Esfehan, 22.10.2014 Anti-regime protest – Video


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