Two Supreme Court judges were shot dead in Tehran.

Two senior Iranian judges have been shot dead at the country’s Supreme Court, state media reported.

Justices Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh were killed after an armed man entered the courtroom in the capital, Tehran, on Saturday morning, according to the judiciary news website Balance.

It is said that the assailant fled the scene and killed himself. A security guard was reportedly injured in the attack.

Although the cause of the attack is not clear, both judges in 2010 They are said to have played a role in the persecution and killing of Islamic State opponents in the 1980s and 1990s.

In a statement to the state news agency, the Judiciary Media Office called the attack a deliberate killing.

According to the initial findings, the attacker has no involvement in the case filed in the Supreme Court and said that an investigation has been started to identify and arrest more people who were allegedly involved in the attack.

Judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir told Iranian state TV that the assailant entered the court with a gun before opening fire.

One of the judges, Razini, survived an assassination attempt in 1998.

The other was Mogiseh. It was sanctioned by the US in 2019.He charged that the Treasury Department had “overseen countless unfair trials in which the charges were unsubstantiated and the evidence was ignored.”

At that time he was a judge in the Tehran Revolutionary Court. In the year Appointed to the Supreme Court in 2020.

Mogiseh Among the seven Iranian judges to be sanctioned by Canada in 2023, the country cited their role in “general and systematic human rights abuses.”