Ayatollah Abbas Ali Soleimani, a member of the Assembly of Experts that selects the country's supreme leader, was killed on 26 April inside a bank in Babolsar city in the northern province of Mazandaran.
"The killer of Ayatollah Soleimani was sentenced to qesas on the charge of intentional murder," provincial judiciary chief Mohammad Sadegh Akbari said, according to the judiciary's Mizan Online website.CCTV footage released by the media at the time showed the security guard, wearing a blue and white jacket, shooting the cleric from behind as he was sitting in a chair at the bank.
Soleimani, 75, was previously a representative of the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Under the constitution, the 88-strong Assembly of Experts is tasked with supervising, dismissing and electing the supreme leader.