Iranian religious scholar, Hassan Shahzeydi Gets Injured In Knife Attack

Tehran - According to the state news agency IRNA, a high-ranking Iranian scholar was stabbed on Friday.

It further reported that the incident took place in the central city of Isfahan.

The cleric was slightly injured and his life is not in danger.

The neck of Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabai-Nejad was scratched in an attack, police said. Security officers apprehended the attacker, who was around 25 years old, according to Hassan Shahzeydi, the cleric's deputy.

According to semi-official news, Ayatollah was relocated after treatment and looked unhurt in an interview with state television.

"It was a young man who had a problem and suddenly attacked, and he couldn't do anything except hit my neck with a blow, but he was restrained.

His intent must be investigated "In the interview, Isfahan's Friday prayers imam, Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabai-Nejad, said.

Two Iranian clerics were stabbed to death and one was injured in April at the country's largest Shi'ite Muslim religious complex in Mashhad, in the country's northeast.

The attacker was identified as a 21-year-old ethnic Uzbek from Afghanistan, according to officials.

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