TEHRAN: Eleven members of an Iranian opposition group accused of attacking mosques and public property have been sentenced to jail terms of up to six years, state news agency IRNA said Monday. Hassan Heidari, deputy prosecutor general of Khorasan Razavi province in northeast Iran, said the 11 defendants, including women, were also convicted of “propaganda against the system of the Islamic republic”. Several of them were found guilty of having set fire to two mosques in the city of Masshad, IRNA said, adding that the rulings were subject to appeal. According to Iranian authorities, the accused form part of an opposition group called “Restart” which was established by Mohammad Hosseini, a onetime game show host on state television who has gone into exile. He is alleged to have called on social media for Iranians to attack mosques, banks and centres run by the Basij, a hardline militia linked to the Revolutionary Guards.
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