TEHRAN – A Sunni imam who leads Friday prayers was shot dead on Tuesday ina village in northern Iran, official news agency *IRNA* said.
Molavi Abdolghafur Jamalzahi was an imam at the Reza Abad mosque, nearRamiyan, around 120 kilometres northeast of Tehran in Golestan province.
He was shot four times as he returned home from the mosque, *IRNA* said.
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Reza Abad has around 4,000 residents and a “large number of foreigners andrefugees”, the news agency said. – APP/AFP
