Iranian spectators watch a hanging in Mashhad. 2005

IRAN. TWO EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

October 30, 2007: Iran hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, state media reported.
Jomeh Gomshadzehi was hanged in the city of Zahedan after being arrested with 3,300 kilos of opium, 84 kilos heroin, 95 kilos of morphine, the state news agency IRNA said. The report identified him as a notorious drug trafficker who sent narcotics to Turkey and Arab states in the Gulf. It said that while trafficking drugs four years ago, he killed a policeman and then escaped to Dubai.
The second man, identified as Esmail Barani Piranvand, was sentenced to death in a prison in Iranshahr in the same province for the possession of 2.5 kilos of heroin, the state television website said. (Sources: Agence France Presse, 30/10/2007)