TEHRAN – Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said at the Tehran Friday prayers that both the nation and government want the rioters affiliated to a cult group to receive “severest” punishments.

A few weeks ago, 3 policemen and 2 Basijis were violently run over and killed by members of the Gonabadi Dervishes in protests in Pasdaran Street in  north of Tehran.

Ayatollah Khatami said the murderers of the five security forces must be punished for their heinous crime.

“Regrettably, the criminals directed martyred Basiji Hadadian among themselves and killed him in the most brutal form,” he said, calling the criminals “domestic Daesh”.

MH/PA