Iran sentences man to death over deadly Shiite shrine attack

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An Iranian court sentenced a man to death over an April shrine attack in the Shiite city of Mashhad that killed two clerics, the judiciary said on Tuesday. The April 5 attack on the Imam Reza shrine, where pilgrims had gathered to worship during the Muslim month of Ramadan, killed two clerics and injured a third. Local media at the time identified the assailant as Abdolatif Moradi, a 21-year-old Sunni extremist and ethnic Uzbek who […]