Three more defendants confessed at a closed-door trial Wednesday to involvement in the shock 1998 murders of Iranian dissidents which were blamed on "rogue" intelligence agents, state radio said.
Four defendants were heard Wednesday by Tehran's military tribunal, three of whom confessed to abetting the murders of Mohammad-Djafar Pouyandeh, Mohammad-Ali Mokhtari, as well as those of Daryuah Foruhar and his wife Parvaneh Eskandari, radio added.
One of the four defendants, Iraj Amuzegar, accused of having assisted the murder of Foruhar and his wife as well Pouyandeh's assassination, rejected the accusations, and maintained his only crime was that he knew about the murders.
On Tuesday, four other defendants confessed to involvement in the murders.
During the third hearing on Saturday, the main defendant, Mostafa Kazemi, pleaded guilty and admitted to ordering the hits, a military statement said.
Eighteen people have been on trial behind closed doors in Tehran's military court since December 23 -- TEHRAN (AFP)
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