The report identified them only as Gh. B. and H. R and added the two were hanged early this week but no other details were given.
The total number of executions based on state-run media reports since the beginning of the current Iranian year (started on March 21, 2009) has passed 440. The true figure for executions is much higher as this does not cover the secret executions and the ones not reported by the media or people killed in streets by suppressive forces. In the past, the clerical regime has executed many political prisoners as ordinary criminals and drug traffickers.