Iranian village has a drug problem, so the government executed EVERY man living there

 – The Iranian government has taken drastic action to take on drugs trafficking in one village in the east of the country.

 – Every single man living in the village, located along Iran’s borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, was executed by hanging.

 – An Iranian government minister said the draconian action was necessary as the victims relatives would only seek revenge.

The entire male population of a village in Iran has been executed for its alleged role in drug trafficking, according to an Iranian cabinet minister.

Shahindokht Molaverdi, a vice-president of Iran responsible for female and family issues, said in an interview with the Mehr news agency that she fears violence could worsen in the unnamed village in the Sistan and Baluchestan provinces of the country.

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“The children of the executed criminals are also already drug traffickers,” she said.

“They want to avenge the deaths of their fathers.

“At the same time they are feeding their families with money from the drugs trade and the people of this village cannot be protected.”

Sistan and Baluchestan province shares thousands of kilometres of land border with neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan, and are key smuggling points for opium and other narcotics.

Largely underdeveloped and poor, a large part of the local population relies on the drugs trade for income.

In recent years the area has become a base for Sunni, mainly Salafist extremist groups originating in Pakistan.

Both drug traffickers and Sunni extremists have been main targets of a strict crackdown led by the Iranian government.

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The exact number of men executed in the province has not been published, but Sistan and Baluchestan figures among the Iranian provinces that applies capital punishment most often.

“If we do not act against these people, crime will return,” said Molaverdi.

“Society is responsible for the families of those executed.

“Although the family support programme was neglected for several years, it has now been relaunched as part of the sixth national development plan.”

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Iran is among the countries that carries out the death penalty most frequently, and many of those sentenced to death suffer the punishment for drug-related crimes.

The country’s national assembly recently launched a bill that would see drug offences punished by life imprisonment rather than death.

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