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Iran says the attackers who killed 13 people in the capital Tehran were Iranians who had joined so-called Islamic State (IS). In an interview on state Television, Deputy chief of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council,Reza Seifollahi, said the attackers had joined IS from a number of regions inside Iran. Iranian police said all the attackers were killed. Police have arrested five suspects.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said these fireworks have no effect on Iran and they will soon be eliminated. Iran’s emergency services said a total of 13 people were killed and 46 wounded in the twin attack.
Suicide bombers attacked parliament and the mausoleum of the Islamic Republic’s founder Ayatollah Khomeini,who led the 1979 Islamic revolution yesterday.
Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards accused Saudi Arabia and the US of being behind the attacks. The violence comes amid heightened tension in the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia and other Arab states cutting ties with Qatar over alleged support for Islamist militants and closer ties with Iran.
Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and Shia-majority Iran are staunch regional rivals.