IRAN SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH OVER DEADLY SHIA SHRINE ATTACK

Wed 08 June 2022:

The courts in Iran said on Tuesday that a man was sentenced to death for killing two clerics and wounded a third in a knife attack at a famous Shi’ite Muslim shrine in April.

“The revolutionary court sentenced him to death … and his lawyer has appealed. The case has been sent to the Supreme Court,” judiciary spokesperson Masoud Setayeshi told a news conference carried live on a state-run website.

Officials said the attacker was a 21-year-old ethnic Uzbek from Afghanistan with radical Sunni views. He was arrested after the stabbings at Iran’s largest Shi’ite Muslim religious complex in the northeastern city of Mashhad.

TWO IRANIAN CLERICS KILLED IN KNIFE ATTACK IN MASHHAD,

Attacks on clerics and government officials have been rare in Iran after authorities tightened security measures and cracked down on opposition groups following a string of attacks and bombings that killed dozens of officials and clerics following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

However, a senior conservative cleric was slightly hurt after being attacked by a man with a knife after Friday prayers last week in the central city of Isfahan.

Following a spike in food prices and public outrage at government authorities and powerful clerics over a catastrophic building collapse last month that was widely blamed on corruption and insufficient safety precautions, there has been weeks of unrest in Iran.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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