Iranian sympathisers sentenced in Al-Qaeda trial
Iran has acknowledged for the first time it has convicted some Iranian nationals of supporting al-Qaeda, saying the number is fewer than ten.
"They were Iranians. They were not members, they were just sympathisers. There were fewer than ten," Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
Last week Tehran's justice department announced that "sentences have been pronounced" on Al-Qaeda suspects confined on Iranian soil and that the cases were handled by a special judge in a secret trial. But Iranian officials refused to say who the accused were, how many of them there were, nor what verdicts were reached or sentences handed out.
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