Gunmen have shot dead a Sunni cleric in a town in southeast Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday. The report said Abdolshakour Kord was killed near a mosque in the Baluchi town of Khash. IRNA said the cleric was active in both religious and academic fields and that the case is under investigation. The deputy governor of Khash regretted the incident having taken place. Anti-regime local sources accused the Iranian intelligence of being involved in the crime. The authorities in the province announced that Kord’s funeral will be held Friday “with the participation of the nation’s different factions.” Thursday’s shooting came after the death of an officer from the border guards during clashes with armed men in Sistan and Baluchestan Province on Wednesday. The officer’s death also came one week after three from the Basij were killed in clashes with armed men in the same province. Sistan and Baluchestan shares common borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan.