Tehran [Iran], October 5 (ANI): Iran on Saturday carried out the execution of six men accused of staging deadly attacks in the country's southwest region on behalf of Israel, Fox News reported, citing state media.

The men were said to be involved in a series of assaults on police and security forces in Khorramshahr, a city in oil-rich Khuzestan province, as well as bombings around the area.

Authorities also confirmed a separate hanging in Kurdistan province, where a man convicted of killing a Sunni cleric in 2009, along with other crimes, was executed, Fox News reported.

The executions come weeks after the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June, which ended with Tehran warning it would retaliate against its "enemies at home and abroad."

The United States Department of War, then the

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