Iran executes two alleged members of the government opponents Mujahedin Khalq.

Iran have executed two men who are alleged to be members of the opposition group Mujahedin Khalq and reportedly involved in a deadly mosque bombing in 2008 that killed 13 people.

There were another nine who have been sentenced to death as “enemies of God” and warned of more trials of opposition supporters in an apparent attempt to intimidate a widespread protest movement challenging the nation’s hard-line establishment.

The to men named as Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, 37, and Arash Rahmanipour, 20, were hanged before dawn as members of an outlawed monarchist group, the Kingdom Assembly, Iranian news reports said.

The government has stepped up legal pressure on the opposition movement with another round of confrontations possible Feb. 11, the 31st anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic. Protesters have vowed to turn the annual march into an antigovernment rally.

Human rights groups have become alarmed by the number of executions in Iran. President Obama, in his State of the Union address Wednesday night, said the United States supports “the human rights of the women marching through the streets of Iran.”

On Thursday, his administration quickly condemned the hangings.

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