Iran Issues Death Penalty For Attacker Who Killed Two Clerics

The body of a dead cleric seen in Mashhad shrine on April 5, 2022
The body of a dead cleric seen in Mashhad shrine on April 5, 2022

A court in Iran has sentenced a man to death for killing two clerics and wounding a third in a knife attack at a holy Shi'ite Muslim shrine in April, the judiciary said on Tuesday.