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Iran has executed 16 rebels following overnight clashes in which 14 border guards were killed close to the border with Pakistan, an official has said.
An Iranian prosecutor said that authorities had executed 16 "terrorists" in the country's Sistan-Baluchestan province, in retaliation for the killings.
"These individuals were executed this Saturday morning in response to the terrorist action of last evening at Saravan and the martyrdom of the border guards," he said, quoted by Iranian state television.
He gave no details of any trial proceedings.
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