Sunni cleric killed in Iran area near Pakistan

TEHRAN: A Sunni cleric in Iran was killed on Monday in front of his home in a region bordering Pakistan that has been plagued by violence, state television reported. The incident took place in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province, one of Iran’s poorest regions that borders Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Youssef Gargij, a Sunni cleric... was killed by Zionist mercenaries in front of his house” in the province’s capital Zahedan, Iranian television reported, adding that he was a supporter of

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