Three Iraqi Kurds convicted over a spate of armed robberies,...

Three Iraqi Kurds convicted over a spate of armed robberies, extortion and rape were hanged publicly in the northern Iranian city of Qazvin, Qods newspaper reported. It said the trio, identified only by their first names of Farhad, Salar, and Nejah, were convicted for "disrupting Iran's national security up to the level of Mohareb" - the Islamic term for war against God.