ZAHEDAN, Iran, May 26 (UPI) -- Iranian authorities announced they executed the brother of Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi at a prison in the south of the country.
A court in the southern city of Zahedan confirmed Abdolhamid Rigi was hanged at the prison for his role in the Jundallah militant group, the Iranian Labor News Agency reports.
Iran in early May accused Jundallah militants of plotting to bomb the Tehran offices of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime in response to the February arrest of its leader.
Tehran announced that it took custody of the Jundallah ringleader Feb.23. He was arrested on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan. Rigi led the Sunni militant group that claimed responsibility for an October attack in southern Iran that left several members of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps dead.
Tehran paraded Rigi before television cameras after the arrest, where he told state-funded broadcaster Press TV that he had the support of U.S. officials in Afghanistan
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell at the time that the Iranian allegations were incorrect. Iranian intelligence officials said Rigi was at a U.S. base in Afghanistan the day before his arrest.
