Public safety incident
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Event title
Iran - Two Iranian Supreme Court judges are gunned down, another injured
Source
Severity
High
Event date (UTC)
2025-01-18 10:05:31
Last update (UTC)
2025-01-18 10:05:32
Area range
Local event
Address/Affected area(s)
Tehran
Two Iranian Supreme Court judges were gunned down and another was injured in Tehran in a shooting spree by an assailant on Saturday morning, the Fars news agency reported.The assailant killed himself after the shooting spree. The attack took place at 10: 45 a.m. local time.The judges were attacked outside the Justice Department in downtown Tehran. The two veteran top judges killed in the assassination attempt are Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh. They were dealing with offenses against national security, espionage, and terrorism. Judge Miri (first name not given) is among the injured.
According to the initial investigations, the Judiciary said the armed assailant had neither lodged a complaint at the Supreme Court nor referred to any court branches.Razini, 71, had survived an assassination attempt in ـJanuary 1998 when assailant motorcyclists attached a magnetic bomb to his vehicle. In that attack, he was injured.