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Tehran, Iran – 20 January 2025
1. Pan left of funeral
2. Caskets of Mohammad Mogheiseh and Ali Razini, Supreme Court judges killed on Saturday
3. Various of officials
4. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, head of Iran’s Supreme Court:
"We lost two valuable assets in the judiciary and the Supreme Court. This is the price the ruling system pays for its survival, to spite the enemy."
5. Wide of Montazeri
6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, head of Iran’s Supreme Court:
"The ruthless and bloodthirsty enemy is wrong to think it can stop us by killing these valuable persons."
7. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, head of Iran’s judiciary praying over the caskets
8. Various of caskets being carried during funeral
9. Military band playing
10. Various of caskets being carried and mourners
11. Various of mourners holding placards with picture of Razini
12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Pirooz (no first name given), Tehran resident:
"Martyr Razini and martyr Mogheiseh were two judges that sought justice that were martyred in the path toward justice."
13. Caskets being carried by crowds
14. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Pirooz (no first name given), Tehran resident:
"Certainly, the arrogance and the MEK (exiled Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq) were involved in doing this, aiming to undermine the resistance front’s victory in Gaza."
15. Various of funeral procession
STORYLINE:
A funeral was held in Iran’s capital on Monday for two prominent Supreme Court judges killed by a gunman over the weekend.
A man fatally shot the two judges in Tehran on Saturday, officials said, both of whom allegedly took part in the mass execution of dissidents in 1988.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the shootings of the judges, clerics Mohammad Mogheiseh and Ali Razini.
However, Razini’s involvement in the 1988 executions had likely made him a target in the past, including an assassination attempt in 1999.
Their killings, a rare attack targeting the judiciary, also come as Iran faces economic turmoil, the mauling of its Mideast allies by Israel and the return of Donald Trump to the White House on Monday.
Both clerics served on Iran’s Supreme Court, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
A bodyguard for one of the judges also was wounded in the attack at the Palace of Justice in Tehran, which also serves as the headquarters of the country’s judiciary and typically has tight security.
The attacker, who was armed with a handgun, killed himself, IRNA said.
“According to initial investigations, the person in question did not have a case in the Supreme Court nor was he a client of the branches of the court,” the judiciary’s Mizan news agency said.
“Currently, investigations have been launched to identify and arrest the perpetrators of this terrorist act.”
AP video by Mohsen Ganji
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