Two senior Iranian judges have been shot useless within the nation’s supreme court docket, state media studies.
The judiciary’s information web site, Mizan, stated that judges Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh have been killed after an armed man entered the court docket, within the capital Tehran, on Saturday morning.
The attacker is alleged to have then killed themselves whereas fleeing the scene. A bodyguard was additionally reportedly injured within the assault.
The motive for the assault is unclear, however each judges are stated to have performed a job within the persecution and killing of opponents of the Islamic regime all through the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties.
In a press release to state information company IRNA, the judiciary’s media workplace described the assault as premeditated assassination.
It additionally stated that, in keeping with preliminary findings, the attacker had not been concerned in any case thought-about by the supreme court docket, and an investigation had been launched to establish and arrest any additional individuals who could have been concerned within the assault.
The judiciary’s spokesman, Asghar Jahangir, instructed Iranian state TV that the attacker had entered the court docket carrying a handgun earlier than opening fireplace.
One of many judges, Razini, had survived an assassination try in 1998.
The opposite, Moghiseh, was sanctioned by the US in 2019, with the treasury division accusing him of getting “overseen numerous unfair trials, throughout which expenses went unsubstantiated and proof was disregarded”.
At the moment, he was a decide within the Tehran Revolutionary Court docket. He was reportedly named to the supreme court docket in 2020.
Moghiseh was additionally amongst seven Iranian judges sanctioned by Canada in 2023 for what the nation described as “their position in gross and systematic human rights violations”.