TEHRAN: Iranian police have detained three suspects in the recent shooting murder of two Sunni Muslim clerics, according to the director of the Golestan province’s legal authority on Tuesday.

Investigators discovered that the three, who were also Sunnis, had “no affiliation with terrorist organisations,” according to the official IRNA news agency.

According to local media, the two clergymen were shot dead outside a seminary in the village of Gonbad-e Kavus on April 2.

Without naming the suspects, Asyabi stated that the crime was motivated by a “personal conflict.”

According to Asyabi, four firearms were discovered during a search of one of the accused’s residences.

Sunnis account for about 5% to 10% of Iran’s over 83 million inhabitants, where Shiism has been the national religion since the early 16th century.

Sunnis “are free to perform their religious rites”. According to the Islamic Republic’s constitution,

Golestan is a Caspian Sea province that is half Sunni and half Shia.

A Sunni fanatic, purportedly of ethnic Uzbek descent, assassinated two Shiite clergy in Iran’s most hallowed site of worship in the northern city of Mashhad, about a week after the Gonbad-e Kavus shootings.

In a statement posted on his official website on April 8, the religious head of Iran’s Sunni minority, Molavi Abdol Hamid, urged Iranian authorities to “thoroughly investigate” the two crimes while strongly denouncing the deaths.

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