{"id":1523973,"date":"2026-07-14T03:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1523973"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:40:18","slug":"iran-executes-2-islamic-state-members-convicted-of-armed-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1523973","title":{"rendered":"Iran executes 2 Islamic State members convicted of armed rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_1523974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1523974\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Iran_Khamenei_Funeral_26191256019836-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1523974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Iran_Khamenei_Funeral_26191256019836-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Iran_Khamenei_Funeral_26191256019836-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Iran_Khamenei_Funeral_26191256019836-1-1018x678.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/Iran_Khamenei_Funeral_26191256019836-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1523974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this photo released by Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader&#8217;s office, mourners carry the coffin of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei above the crowd for the final prayer before his burial at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, Thursday, July 9, 2026. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>TEHRAN, Iran (AP) \u2014 Two members of the Islamic State group were executed after they were convicted of armed rebellion against the Islamic Republic, Iranian state television reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The report identified the men as Mohieddin Abdollahi and Hossein Palani. It said they belonged to an Islamic State cell that formed after the group\u2019s territorial defeat in Iraq and Syria and had planned attacks inside Iran.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Iranian security forces identified the cell\u2019s hideout in the Bamo mountain area near the Iraqi border before it could carry out its plans. Several militants were killed and others arrested during the operation, in which three members of Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard were also killed. Authorities said they also seized weapons, ammunition and other equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The two men were convicted of armed rebellion against the Islamic Republic, and were hanged after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences. The judiciary did not disclose where the executions were carried out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two members of the Islamic State group were executed after they were convicted of armed rebellion against the Islamic Republic, Iranian state television reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1523974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-heads","category-abc-world-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-16 03:39:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1523973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523975,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523973\/revisions\/1523975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}