TEHRAN (Tasnim) � Iran�s Foreign Ministry on Sunday strongly condemned the fatal shooting of three Sunni clerics near Iraq�s southern city of Basra.
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham slammed the Thursday terrorist attack�as a targeted move aimed at �inciting religious sedition in the Islamic community.�

She, however, said that enemies and ill-wishers of Iraq "will fail in light of the vigilance of the Iraqi nation and religious, political elites and under the guidance of that country�s Marja�s (religious leadership), clerics and religious leaders."

On Thursday, four gunmen opened fire from a speeding car on the vehicle carrying clerics near Basra, killing three of them and wounding two others.

Later on Friday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered an urgent investigation into the terrorist attack.

Violence in Iraq killed at least 12,282 civilians in 2014, making it the deadliest year since the sectarian bloodshed of 2006-07, when the monthly death toll sometimes exceeded 3,000, according to the United Nations.

By Tasnim News Agency

 

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