Iranian state media reported that two judges were killed in a gun attack at the Supreme Court headquarters in the capital Tehran on January 18.
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| Judge Ali Razini (left) and Judge Mohammad Moghiseh. (Source: Iranwire) |
“Three Supreme Court judges were attacked. Two of them died,” the Judiciary’s Mizan Online news site said, confirming that “the perpetrator committed suicide.”
State news agency IRNA also reported that another person was injured in the attack.
According to Mizan Online , the two judges killed were Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghisseh, adding that they were in charge of cases “against crimes related to national security, espionage and terrorism.”
The motive for the crime remains unclear, but Mizan said the perpetrator was not involved in any Supreme Court case. The news site did not provide further information about the identity of the perpetrator.
Iranian authorities have opened an investigation into the incident.
The US Treasury Department said veteran judge Moghisseh was blacklisted by Washington in 2019 for “conducting unfair trials”. Mr. Razini held several important positions in Iran’s judiciary and was the subject of an assassination attempt in 1998.
Attacks on judges are rare in Iran, but the country has seen several high-profile shootings in recent years. Last October, a Shiite preacher was shot dead in the city of Kazeroun.
In April 2023, powerful cleric Abbas Ali Soleimani was shot dead at a bank in the northern province of Mazandaran.
Prominent Iranian judge Hassan Moghaddas was murdered by two gunmen in a busy commercial district of Tehran in August 2005. The two attackers were convicted of the murder and publicly executed by hanging two years later.
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