TEHRAN, April 9: Armed rebels have killed two army officers, and shot a top cleric in Sistan-Balochistan province in southeastern Iran, a press report said on Sunday. A report in hardline Jomhuri Eslami newspaper said rebels on Friday shot and “seriously wounded” Hojatoleslam Yusef Mohammadi Soleimani, who represents the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the Centre for Higher Education in Iranshahr.
Mostafa Ahmadi and Behzad Qolipour, non-commissioned army officers, were shot over the weekend.—AFP
