TEHRAN - Iran on Saturday executed six members of an alleged Israeli-affiliated "terrorist separatist" network for involvement in several deadly operations and compromising security in the country's southwestern Khuzestan province.

The individuals were hanged following judicial proceedings and the upholding of their death sentences by the Supreme Court of Iran, the Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary reported.

They had been directly involved in the assassinations of four Iranian security forces in Khuzestan in January 2018 and November 2019, and had confessed to having designed and carried out several lethal operations and acts of sabotage in the province, said the report.

Their acts of sabotage include making and planting bombs, carrying out an explosion at a compressed natural gas station in Khorramshahr city, attacking banks, throwing grenades at military centers and shooting at mosques, it added.

According to Mizan, the convicts had been in contact with Israel and supported by "hostile foreign elements".