Assailant said to kill himself after attack at high-security Palace of Justice in Tehran; bodyguard also wounded

Two Iranian Supreme Court judges were killed when a gunman entered the courthouse in Tehran on Saturday morning.

The two judges, Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, dealt with sensitive cases, a spokesman said. Moghiseh was known to handle death penalty cases for activists.

Two veteran Iranian Supreme Court judges, known for handling high-profile cases, were shot dead in Tehran by an assailant who later took his own life.

Two senior judges in Iran’s Supreme Court were shot dead in Tehran on Saturday in an attack that authorities blamed on the US and Israel.