Gunman shoots Iranian judge in the eye

Reuters:

A gunman has shot an Iranian judge in the eye and hand outside his Tehran home, seriously wounding him, the justice minister said on Sunday.

The official IRNA news agency said Mohammad Reza Aghazadeh had been handling cases involving large land transactions near Karaj, an industrial satellite city to the west of Tehran.

"He is now in surgery," Justice Minister Jamal Karimirad told reporters. "I hope God helps us keep him alive".

Aghazadeh is the second judge to be shot this month.

Hassan Moghaddas, a judge who sentenced several reformist dissidents to jail, was shot dead in his car on August 2.

Update: in another report Reuters added:

A judge was stabbed to death in the southern province of Fars earlier this month, and another was disfigured when acid was thrown on his face in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, the official said.