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Iranwire – A “bank guard” has been executed in Iran after being convicted of fatally shooting a senior cleric earlier this year, according to a news outlet affiliated with the judiciary.
The man behind Abbas Ali Suleimani’s killing was executed in Babol in the presence of the victim’s family, the Mizan News Agency reported on December 13.
The report said a court sentenced the man to death in May and the Supreme Court upheld the verdict.
Suleimani, 75, was shot in a bank in the Caspian city of Babolsar in April. Authorities offered no motive for the attack.
The killing followed months of anti-establishment protests across Iran and a bloody security crackdown on demonstrators. he protests, which were sparked by the September 2022 death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, gradually died down in the early months of the year.
Suleimani served on the Assembly of Experts, an 88-member chamber of theologians which oversees and appoints the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.
He was previously the representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to the restive south-eastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
He also served as the Friday prayer leader of Kashan, in central Isfahan province, and Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchistan.
