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Assailants kill cleric in Iran's Kurdish area

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Iran's state television says gunmen have assassinated a prominent Sunni cleric in a province home to Iran's Kurdish minority.

 

Thursday's report says Mohammad Sheikholeslam was killed at the gate of his house. The cleric represented the province in the Assembly of Experts, a key religious body entrusted by law with appointing and dismissing Iran's supreme leader. (AP)

 

 

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