As Iranians headed to the polls April 29 to vote in the runoff parliamentary elections, a rare case of gun violence broke out. According to Hossein Zolfaghari, Iran’s deputy interior minister for security affairs, the shooting took place between supporters of rival candidates and was a “non-security” shooting, meaning that it was not terrorism related.
According to the deputy interior minister, the suspects had shot “aimlessly” into a crowd in Mamasani County in Fars province. Four people were wounded. A local official said that 25 people have been arrested and the injured have been transferred to a hospital.
