Ayatollah Khamenei issued a massage of condolence following martyrdom of cleric in Kazerun
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei offered condolences over the martyrdom of Hojattoleslam Sheikh Mohammad Khorsand, the Friday prayer leader of Iran’s southern city of Kazerun.
News ID: 385826
Date: 12 June 2019 - 11:24
Navideshahed - Ayatollah Khamenei offered his condolences
to the people of Kazerun and the family of Hojattoleslam Khorsand over
the "active and successful” cleric’s martyrdom In a message on Saturday,
The Leader added that the late cleric’s reunion with God on the Laylat al-Qadr and right after hours of supplication and invocation shows the great divine reward for that pious and industrious cleric.
The Friday prayer leader of Kazerun, located in Iran’s southern province of Fars, was murdered on May 29.
Khorsand, 52, was stabbed in the abdomen by an attacker outside his home and succumbed to injuries after being taken to the hospital.
The assailant, identified as Hamid Derakhshandeh, fled the scene but was arrested by police a few hours later.
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