TEHRAN, Dec 10 (NNN-TASNIM) – A senior Sunni Muslim cleric was murdered, in Iran’s south-eastern Sistan and Baluchestan Province, while security forces said, a similar attempt was foiled in Khorasan Razavi Province, Iranian media reported yesterday.
Local cleric, Molavi Abdulvahed Rigi, was found dead on the roadside, in Khash County, earlier in the day, with three bullets in the head, Press TV reported, citing Sistan and Baluchestan’s prosecutor, Mehdi Shamsabadi.
The Sunni cleric had earlier been threatened by some anti-Revolution groups, said the report, adding, the police have launched an investigation into the case.
The cleric was at his mosque on Thursday when “unknown individuals called him from the rear door, making him sit in a car that had no license plate,” Shamsabadi was quoted as saying.
Molavi Rigi was the Friday prayers leader of Imam Hussein Mosque in the city of Khash, and also a seminary teacher in the province.
Meanwhile, the security forces foiled an assassination attempt on a senior cleric in Mashhad city in Khorasan Razavi Province, and arrested members of an outlawed group for the scheme.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said yesterday, the “Jaish al-Zulm” group members, had been arrested for planning “anti-security acts and terrorist operations,” including an attack on the governor’s office and killing Ayatollah Alam al-Hoda, a Friday prayers leader of Mashhad.
Significant amounts of weapons, ammunition and explosives have been discovered from the hideout of these people, according to the report.– NNN-TASNIM
