{"id":38480,"date":"2026-09-14T23:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/sunni-cleric-assassinated-by-unidentified-gunmen-in-sw-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:30:58","slug":"sunni-cleric-assassinated-by-unidentified-gunmen-in-sw-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/sunni-cleric-assassinated-by-unidentified-gunmen-in-sw-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunni cleric assassinated by unidentified gunmen in SW Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6173510.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Rokhshani Nasab added that the attack was carried out outside the cleric\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>According to the governor, Gorgij had been active in efforts to fight divisive elements and Zionist mercenaries.<\/p>\n<p>No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the assassination, accoridng to Press TV, citing other local Iranian media outlets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The assassination comes five days after Kurdish cleric Mamosta Mohammad Nozhati was killed in a terrorist attack in Iran\u2019s western province of West Azarbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued following Nozhati\u2019s death on Wednesday, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) condemned the assassination, blaming \u201cZionist-American separatist groups\u201d for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/247750\/Sunni-cleric-assassinated-by-unidentified-gunmen-in-SW-Iran\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rokhshani Nasab added that the attack was carried out outside the cleric\u2019s home. According to the governor, Gorgij had been active in efforts to fight divisive elements and Zionist mercenaries. No group or individual has claimed responsibility for the assassination, accoridng to Press TV, citing other local Iranian media outlets.\u00a0 The assassination comes five days &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}