In a rare attack targeting the judiciary, a man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Iran’s capital Tehran on Saturday, state media reported.
The judges, clerics Mohammad Mogheiseh and Ali Razini, both died in the shooting, the state-run IRNA news agency reported, adding that the bodyguard for one of the judges was also wounded in the firing.
The gunman later killed himself, IRNA said.
Razini was once targeted in a failed assassination attempt in 1999.
Both judges were known for prosecuting and giving harsh sentences to activists over the past decades.
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