DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An armed guard at a bank in northern Iran calmly walked up behind a senior Shiite cleric and shot and killed the ayatollah on Wednesday, according to surveillance footage from the site, the most-senior clergyman slain during months of unrest that has shaken the Islamic Republic. Some have criticized the subsidies granted to clerics, though fewer than 10% of Iran’s 200,000 clerics have official posts in the government and many seminary students work as laborers or taxi drivers to make ends meet. In April 2022, an Uzbek national stabbed two clerics to death in Mashhad at the Imam Reza shrine