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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran,
Apr. 09 – A senior Iranian cleric was shot and “seriously wounded” and two
army officers were killed by gunmen in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-east Iran, a semi-official
daily reported on Sunday.
Hojjatoleslam Youssif Mohammadi-Soleimani, the representative of Iran’s
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the Centre
for Higher Education in Iranshahr, was gunned down
Friday evening by an individual on a motorbike, the hard-line daily Jomhouri Islami wrote.
Mohammadi-Soleimani was shot five times, the report
said, adding that he was seriously wounded.
On Saturday, six armed individuals kidnapped a local oil official, identified
as Eshaq Nezamdoust,
outside his home.
The report added that in two separate incidents, two army officers identified
as Mostafa Ahmadi and Behzad Gholi-Pour were killed
by insurgents.
“Considering the fact that Sistan-va-Baluchistan
Province has land and sea borders stretching thousands of kilometres
with Pakistan and Afghanistan where American and British military forces are
based, in order to create lasting security and relieve the people here of
fear, officials must act quickly to reduce damages as a result of
insecurity”, the daily added.
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