Islamic State Claims Twin Attacks on Iran Parliament and Khomeini’s Tomb
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Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani dismissed the attacks, saying they were a 'trivial matter'
By Middle East Eye
The Islamic State group has claimed attacks on Iran’s parliament and the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini a few kilometres south of the capital on Wednesday morning, near simultaneous assaults that killed up to seven people, according to media reports.
A security guard was killed when four gunmen burst into Tehran’s parliament complex, while a gardener was reported dead when several armed assailants entered the grounds of Khomeini’s mausoleum in the south of the city, according to the ISNA news agency.
“Fighters from Islamic State attacked Khomeini’s shrine and the Iranian parliament in Tehran,” IS’s news agency Amaq said.
An official at Khomeini’s mausoleum i...