The Islamic Republic of Iran’s top two judges and leading clerics were assassinated on Saturday, January 18 as gunmen stormed Supreme Court headquarters in the capital in Tehran.
The attacker who brandished a handgun also shot one of the bodyguards of the clerics and subsequently shot himself dead at the incident scene.
Mohammed Mogheiseh and Ali Razini, the two victims were top officials in Iran’s Supreme Court. The officials have received both national and international concern and no organization has taken responsibility for their high-profile killing.