AMN /Tehran
Death toll in Tehran attacks have risen to 17 as Iranian Legal Medicine Organization announced that four other victims have been added to the previous 13 martyrs of Wednesday’s terrorist attacks in Tehran, report IRNA .
The organization has already announced the number of the injured was 52.
In an apparently coordinated attempt, two terrorist groups attacked mausoleum of the late Imam Khomeini, southern Tehran, and the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) on Wednesday morning.
Meanwhile Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that contradictions between the White House statement and the US Senate’s anti-Iran sanctions is atrocious.
“Repugnant WH statement & Senate sanctions as Iranians counter terror backed by US clients. Iranian people reject such US claims of friendship,” Zarif wrote on his twitter account on Thursday.
The White House statement says, “We grieve and pray for the innocent victims of the terrorist attacks in Iran, and for the Iranian people,…. We underscore that states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote.”
Although a group of the US senators proposed suspension of new anti-Iran sanctions in order to respect the victims of Tehran terrorist attacks occurred on Wednesday, US Senate voted a bill on the same day that will sanction Iran on the pretext of the disagreement with Tehran’s missile program and the unfounded claims over human rights situation in the country.