At least 15 people have been killed and 40 others injured following an armed attack on the Shah Cheragh mosque in the southeastern Iranian city of Shiraz.
According to Ismail Mohebipour, head of Security, Political and Social Affairs of the Fars governorate, the attack took place while worshippers were performing their prayers, ISNA news agency reported.
Mohebipour himself stressed that the situation is already under control by the security authorities, who have managed to arrest two of the three alleged perpetrators of the shooting.
Security sources consulted by the aforementioned agency have pointed out that the alleged perpetrators of the attack are takfiris, an adjective used to describe Muslims who accuse others of apostasy, thus denying the status of true believers to those whose faith is different from their own.
This event took place on a day when several Iranian cities were once again the scene of numerous demonstrations against the government, on the 40th day after the death of the young Kurdish woman Masha Amini in police custody.
RAISI: «IT WILL NOT GO UNANSWERED».
Hours after the news of the event, the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, issued a statement in which he expressed his condolences to the families of the dead and wounded, victims of an attack perpetrated by «the enemies of the Islamic revolution».
According to the Iranian leader, those who go against Iran only know how to take revenge for their «desperation» by trying to establish «violence and terror» in the Asian nation.
«This evil will definitely not go unanswered, and the security and law enforcement agencies (…) will give an instructive response to its perpetrators and ideologues,» President Raisi asserted.
