Sunni cleric assassinated in SE Iran

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:41:41 GMT An Iranian Sunni cleric who was the Friday prayers leader of the town of Rask in southeastern Iran has been assassinated. Molavi Mostafa Jangi Zehi was killed on the Chabahar-Sarbaz road in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan late on Friday. No group has claimed responsibility for the murder of the cleric, who was an advocate of Sunni-Shia unity. The Jundallah terrorist group has carried out numerous bombings, assassination attempts, and terrorist attacks against Iranian government officials and civilians, including women and children, in Sistan-Baluchestan province. The arrested members of the group have all admitted they killed people in order to create sectarian strife in the region. Jundallah's notorious leader, Abdolmalek Rigi, was arrested by Iranian intelligence forces in February 2010 and executed in June 2010 after being found guilty of 79 criminal charges, including manslaughter, armed robbery, bombing operations, and armed attacks on Iranian police and civilians. Rigi stated in his confessions that he had dealings with the US government and was promised unlimited funds and resources for “waging an insurgency” in Iran. Recently leaked US intelligence documents show that the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad recruited Jundallah terrorists to carry out attacks on Iranian targets.