Washington, 11 November (IranVNC)—An Iranian Sunni prayer leader was gunned down yesterday in front of a mosque in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province, the Tabnak news website reports.
CLERIC – ASSASSINATION – SISTAN-BALUCHISTANWashington, 11 November (IranVNC)—An Iranian Sunni prayer leader was gunned down yesterday in front of a mosque in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province, the Tabnak news website reports.Molawi Sheikh Ali Dehvari, who was also the director of a local Sunni seminary, was killed by two bikers last night after finishing prayers in the town of Saravan.While the motives behind the killing are not yet known, the report cites informed sources as saying that the attackers wanted to sow discord between Shiites and the local Sunni population.According to the semi-official ISNA news agency, security forces in Saravan have begun their investigation of the attack.There is a large Sunni population in Sistan-Baluchistan Province, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sunnis compromise about 10 percent of Iran’s population, and are concentrated in parts of southern and southwestern Iran.In August, Iranian security agents demolished a Sunni seminary in Sistan-Baluchistan. The semi-official Fars News Agency reported at the time that the school premise was the subject of a hereditary dispute.Following that action, the 15-member Sunni caucus of Sunni deputies in Iran’s Majlis [parliament] called on the president to intervene and punish those responsible for destroying the seminary.
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