Iran: Top cleric Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani assassinated in Babolsar

On Wednesday, April 26, excellent Iranian cleric Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani was assassinated in an armed assault. According to the Iranian state media IRNA, Soleimani was gunned down this morning by an assailant inside a monetary establishment inside the metropolis of Babolsar inside the northern province of Mazandaran. 

IRNA reported that the assailant was immediately arrested and interrogated by the protection officers present there. Moreover, it has been reported that the motive behind the assault stays unclear. Three people had been moreover reported to have sustained accidents all through the assault, however, there isn’t any such factor as a affirmation from the authorities however.

Soleimani was a member of the 88-member Assembly of Experts, which selects and supervises Iran’s supreme chief. Additionally, he as quickly as served as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s personal delegate to the unrest-ridden Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran.

#BREAKING: Abbas Ali Soleimani, Powerful Iranian cleric close to the Islamic Republic Leader Ali Khamenei, was shot and killed in Mazandaran’s Babolsar #Iran pic.twitter.com/gtcLlGE89D

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According to native media evaluations, the attacker snatched the guard’s gun and commenced firing as Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani was sitting in a monetary establishment.  According to some evaluations, the assailant was a monetary establishment guard there.

Soleimani was the Babolsar imam for Friday prayers and has been accused of collaborating inside the Eighties executions.

In his autobiography, he claimed that he was chosen to information Babolsar’s Friday prayers so that he may counteract the actions of opposition groups.

In 2020, Iran had unfurled a purple flag on prime of the enduring The Holy Dome of Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, which is an earlier Shi’ite customized symbolizing bloody revenge. The phrases ‘Those who want to avenge the blood of Hussein’ had been written all through the battle flag. As per Shi’ite customized, purple flags moreover symbolize ‘blood spilt unjustly’ and as well as perform a reputation to avenge the one who’s slain. The Jamkaran mosque is on the outskirts of the holy metropolis of Qom, about 100 miles south of Tehran. 

This acquired right here after Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force head General Qasem Soleimani was killed in a drone strike by the US in 2020. He was murdered, along with a variety of completely different officers from Iraqi militias backed by Tehran, after an American MQ-9 Reaper drone fired missiles at a convoy leaving the airport.