TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Wednesday executed a bank guard who was convicted of shooting and killing a high-ranking cleric in April after months of unrest, state media reported.
Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, 77, the highest-ranking member of the clergy he killed after protests and a bloody security crackdown on protesters. Protesters were furious over the death in September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after he was arrested for the country’s morality. police. The protests gradually subsided in the first months of the year.
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A report on Wednesday through the official IRNA news firm said the execution took place in Babol, northern Iran, in Iran’s Mazandaran province, just north of the capital Tehran, in the presence of the victim’s family.
The report said a court sentenced the man to death in May and the Supreme Court upheld the verdict. It was not specified, but Iran imposes the gallows.
The government has given no motive for the April attack in Babolsar, a town near the execution site.
Suleiman had been part of the Assembly of Experts, an 88-seat committee that oversees the post of Iran’s ideal leader. He had also served as a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran’s restive southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan.
Although Shiite clergy have long played a role in Iran, especially after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, discontent has grown in recent years with waves of nationwide protests over economic, political and civil rights issues.
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