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