Iranian Official Survives Shooting
A senior Iranian official in charge of a multibillion-dollar foundation survived an assassination attempt Sunday, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
Mohsen Rafiqdoust, a former minister of the Revolutionary Guards, was in his high-rise office in north Tehran when shots were fired through the window from nearby hills, IRNA reported.
The news agency initially said Rafiqdoust had been injured but later said he was not hurt.
Rafiqdoust heads the Bonyad Mostazafan and Janbazan, a foundation devoted to helping the poor and veterans of the 1980-88 war with Iraq.
“I was tending to my daily work when suddenly the window of my office was sprayed with bullets,” IRNA quoted Rafiqdoust as saying.
Rafiqdoust blamed the shooting on counterrevolutionaries.
“I would be proud to be martyred for the revolution,” he said.
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