Shia cleric from Iran Assembly of Experts shot dead in northern Iran.
In Iran, the Assembly of Experts, which elects the supreme leader. was one of 88 religious leaders, the major Shia cleric Ayatollah Soleimani.
Ayatollah Abbasi Soleimani died in hospital after being shot in a bank in Babolsar, Mazandaran province.
According to the governor, the assailant, who has been detained, was a bank security guard, and the motive is yet to be ascertained.
Additionally, the elected body monitors performance and, in principle, has the power to remove anyone if it determines that they are unable to perform their duties.
He previously served as the personal representative of current supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the restive southeastern region of Sistan-Baluchistan. Resigning in 2019 after 17 years in the post.
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Ayatollah Soleimani, who was in his mid-70s, was visiting a Bank Bailey branch in Babolsar on Wednesday on personal business when he was shot.
CCTV footage released by the Tasnim news agency showed Alam sitting inside the bank, wearing a traditional dark-colored dress and a white turban.
Then, a middle-aged man in blue and white clothes approaches him from behind and shoots him several times in the back.
The man is then disarmed and detained by two other guards, one of whom is wearing a green uniform.
Mazandaran Governor Mahmoud Hussainpour Noori claimed that the attacker was a local man who was one of several armed guards hired by a security company to protect the bank.
He told state TV that it was not yet clear what was the attacker’s motive for the attack
They claimed that our information and documents show that it was not a security or terrorist act.
According to an initial report by Hawza News, the official website of Iran’s Shia madrassas, the attacker was a man who grabbed a bank guard’s gun and opened fire.
