Iran sentences 2 to death for involvement in Shiraz "terror" attack

Contributed by NAMPA / Xinhua.

TEHRAN, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Iran sentenced two people to death for involvement in a deadly "terrorist" attack on a religious shrine in the southern city of Shiraz last October, Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary reported Saturday.
The two people were found to be directly involved in "arming, backing up and directing" main perpetrators, and have links with the Islamic State militant group which claimed responsibility for the attack, Kazem Mousavi, head of the Department of Justice in the south ...