DUBAI (Reuters) - One Iranian cleric was stabbed to death and two others were injured on Tuesday in a rare attack at Iran's largest holy Shi'ite Muslim religious complex in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Iranian state media reported.
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency said the assailant had been arrested and the injured clerics were transferred to the hospital after being stabbed with a knife at the courtyard of the Imam Reza shrine on the third day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
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