Iran executes leader of attack that killed dozens at parade

In this photo released by Mizan News Agency on Oct. 25, 2022, Iranian-Swedish dual national Farajollah Cha’ab arrives at a courtroom at the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, Iran. Iran executed Cha’ab Saturday, May, 6, 2023, accused of masterminding a 2018 attack on a military parade that killed at least 25 people, one of several enemies of Tehran seized abroad in recent years amid tensions with the West. (Koosha Mahshid Falahi/Mizan News Agency via AP)

Iran has executed an Iranian-Swedish dual national accused of masterminding a 2018 attack on a military parade that killed at least 25 people, one of several enemies of Tehran seized abroad in recent years amid tensions with the West.

Farajollah Cha’ab, also known as Habib Asyoud, was a leader of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, an Arab separatist movement that has conducted oil pipeline bombings and other attacks in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province.