Iran on Monday hanged a Sunni extremist who was sentenced to death for killing two Shiite clerics and wounding another in early April, the judiciary said. A 21-year-old national of Uzbek origin carried out a stabbing attack on April 5 at the Imam Reza shrine, which honours one of the most revered figures in Shiite Islam. The killings happened during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan when large crowds of worshippers had gathered at the shrine, in Iran’s second-largest city Mashhad. “The death sentence against Abdolatif Moradi was carried out by hanging this morning, in the presence of a group of…

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