October 5, 2024
Guterres condemns the assault on an Iranian mosque that has left at the least one lifeless and 7 injured

The UN Secretary Normal, Antonio Guterres, has condemned the assault this Sunday in opposition to the Shah Cheragh mosque in southern Iran, which has resulted in at the least one demise and 7 accidents.

“(Guterres) strongly condemns the terrorist assault (…) which is the second assault within the final ten months. The acts directed at non secular websites, locations of worship are abominable,” mentioned Guterres’s spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, throughout a information convention.

“The Secretary Normal underlines the necessity to carry to justice the perpetrators of this crime in opposition to civilians who train their proper to apply their faith freely (…) and conveys his deepest condolences to the bereaved households and the folks of the Republic Islamic Republic of Iran, and needs the injured a speedy restoration,” added Dujarric.

This mosque was the scene a couple of months in the past of one of many worst assaults by the Islamic State within the Islamic Republic, during which at the least 13 folks died.

It needs to be remembered that the 2 convicted of the earlier assault on October 22 in opposition to the Shiite sanctuary have been lastly executed originally of July. The primary suspect within the assault ended up lifeless by police photographs after the assault.