Cleric Killed In Southern Iran In ‘Suspicious Murder’
The Deputy of the Mahshahr Seminary was found dead in what has been called a ‘suspicious murder’.
The Deputy of the Mahshahr Seminary was found dead in what has been called a ‘suspicious murder’.
The seminary's news agency identified the victim as Hamzeh Akrami, a professor at the seminary.
The director of the Khuzestan Seminary labeled the cleric's death as a "suspicious murder."
On Monday, Ali Dehghani, the chief of judiciary in Khuzestan, announced the arrest of a suspect linked to the murder case.
He stated, "The suspect has been apprehended along with the stolen car belonging to the victim in Bushehr Province," as reported by Khabar Online.
Although the judiciary refrained from providing further details, reports indicate that Akrami was allegedly killed by thieves, with his body discovered near Mahshahr's railway.
The incident adds to a trend of violence against clerics in Iran amid a nationwide uprising against the Islamic Republic since its founding, sparked in 2022 by the death in morality police custody of Mahsa Amini.
In May, Abbasali Soleimani, a member of the Assembly of Experts and former representative of the Supreme Leader in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, was fatally shot by a bank guard in Babolsar, Mazandaran province. The perpetrator was later executed by the judiciary of the Islamic Republic.
In another incident in May, a 35-year-old cleric was reportedly struck by a passenger car on Marzdaran Boulevard in Tehran, as reported by Tehran police. Additionally, there were reports of attacks on Friday prayer leaders near Saveh and Tehran during the same period.
