“Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani was killed this morning in an armed attack… the assailant was also arrested,” IRNA news agency reported, citing an official.
The attack took place in the city of Babolsar in the northern province of Mazandaran, the agency added.
Soleimani, 75, was previously the representative of the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
He had also been the imam who led the weekly Friday prayers in the cities of Kashan, in central Isfahan province, and Zahedan in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan. READ MORE
