"At 10 a.m. this morning an individual entered the room of the judges of judiciary with a pistol and targeted the superior judges," said Asghar Jahangir, the spokesman for Iran's judiciary. Jahangir read from a written statement during a state television broadcast Saturday.
The judges had "been targeted by the enemies of Islam and the Islamic Republic because of their precious services in sensitive cases," Jahangir said. Razini had been targeted in an attack in 1999, according to Jahangir, after which he was visited in the hospital by Iran's supreme leader.
The judiciary spokesman identified the judges as "brave and experienced" men who "had crucial responsibilities in the jurisdiction investigating security cases." The two judges killed were identified as Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, both men who have served in Iran's judicial system for decades.
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