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High Profile Cleric Killed In Armed Attack-State Media

IRAN

Iranian state media is reporting that a powerful cleric was killed earlier today in an armed attack in Babolsar in the Mazandaran province in the north of the country. IRNA reports that "Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani was killed this morning in an armed attack ... the assailant was also arrested,"

  • Soleimani was a member of the Assembly of Experts, the body that appoints the Supreme Leader. He previously served as Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's representative in Sistan and Baluchestan provinces.
  • At present it is unclear who carried out the attack, and whether this was an isolated domestic incident or as the result of an international assassination.

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