The World - News from Oct. 25, 1988
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Iran recently executed hundreds of dissidents because it fears a “popular backlash” at home after the Aug. 20 truce in its war with Iraq, the main Iranian opposition movement claimed. The Moujahedeen Khalq, or People’s Holy Warriors, said 250 political prisoners were executed in Rasht, a Caspian Sea town 140 miles northwest of Tehran. Scores more were executed in prisons in Tehran, the central city of Esfahan and the northwestern city of Tabriz, the statement said. No independent confirmation was available.
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