Iran Sentences Tajik Man to Death Over Shiite Shrine Attack

Voice of America News reports: “An Iranian court has sentenced to death a Tajik man convicted of carrying out a deadly gun attack on a Shiite Muslim shrine in August, the judiciary said Thursday.

The attack on the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in Shiraz, capital of Fars province in Iran’s south, came less than a year after a mass shooting at the same site that was later claimed by the Islamic State group.

Nine suspects — all of them foreigners — were arrested after the August 13 attack, which killed two people and wounded seven others.

The convicted attacker, identified as Rahmatollah Nowruzof from Tajikistan and described as an IS member, was handed two death sentences, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported.

He was convicted on charges of waging war against God, as well as ‘sedition and collusion against the security of the country,’ the website said…”

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