Iranian judiciary confirms assassination of two Supreme Court judges in Tehran

BBC

Two senior Iranian judges have been shot dead in the country’s supreme court, state media reports.

The judiciary’s news website, Mizan, said that judges Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh were killed after an armed man entered the court, in the capital Tehran, on Saturday morning.

The attacker is said to have then killed themselves while fleeing the scene. A bodyguard was also reportedly injured in the attack.

The motive for the attack is unclear, but both judges are said to have played a role in the persecution and killing of opponents of the Islamic regime throughout the 1980s and 1990s.