Iran Focus-News - Special Wire - Iran cracks down on dissent with hangings, jail

Iran Focus-News - Special Wire - Iran cracks down on dissent with hangings, jail: "Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 � One person was hanged and 13 others were imprisoned in West Azerbaijan Province, northwest Iran, as part of new wave of crackdown on dissent which began last week, Iran�s State Security Forces (SSF) announced on Tuesday.

Major Rezai, chief spokesman of the SSF in the province, said, �We have been implementing the plan to remove trouble-makers in the province, and so far 13 such persons have been sent to prison�.

One �trouble-maker� was hanged in the town of Naqadeh, the police spokesman announced.

Rezai added that with harsher sentences from judges, the problem of trouble-makers, which had increased in recent months, would be resolved.

Tuesday morning�s edition of the hard-line daily Jomhouri Islami wrote that Iran�s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had recently ordered the head of the country�s judiciary to deal �decisively� with �elements creating disruption in society� and sentence them to �the most severe punishment that God has prescribed�.

�The Supreme Leader has issued an order to deal decisively with trouble-makers�, the daily quoted the head of Tehran�s Justice Department, Abbas-Ali Alizadeh, as saying"