► Five other men, who were Muslims, were flogged for not fasting
►Muslims have been persecuted under the country's Sharia law.
Five other Muslim men were also flogged in public with 70 lashes for not fasting during Ramadan, the city's deputy governor Ali Ashraf Karami said.
The barbaric punishment was carried out in public in a square in the city of Kermanshah.
Tens of thousands of Iranian Muslim women attend the Eid al-Fitr prayer ceremony in Tehran, Iran. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the fasting month Ramadan.