A senior Iranian diplomat was shot dead close to Tehran's diplomatic mission in Baghdad today.
Witnesses saw a car with at least two bullet holes in it. A body was slumped in the vehicle, which had smashed into a lamp-post after the shooting.
"We have been told that he was driving his car to go to the embassy and three men drove up and shot him," an Iranian official.
Iran's state television identified the dead man as the first secretary of Iran's embassy in Baghdad, Mr Khalil Naimi.