The verdicts stem from two shootings -- in October 2022 and August 2023 -- that killed 15 people at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the capital of Fars province. The attacks were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
They were also sentenced to 25 years in prison for “aiding and abetting in moharebeh”, he added, referring to the capital offence of enmity against God.
Two women were each sentenced to five years, but “their sentences will be served under Islamic leniency, monitored by electronic ankle bracelets, and within a one-kilometre radius of their homes”.
In July 2023, Iran executed two men in public over the first attack on the shrine.
Following the second attack, the judiciary said in August 2023 that security forces had arrested nine people -- all foreigners -- and later sentenced a Tajik IS member to death the following month.
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