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Iran: 12 killed in deadly twin attacks on parliament, Khomeini shrine

Intensified gunfire was heard from the neighbouring offices as Fars news agency reported police had launched an assault.

By :  dr swati srivastava
Update: 2017-06-08 07:28 GMT
The Islamic State group claimed its first attacks in Iran on Wednesday as gunmen and suicide bombers killed at least 12 people in twin assaults on parliament and the tomb of the country's revolutionary founder in Tehran. (Photo: AP)
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shrugged off attacks on Wednesday by gunmen and suicide bombers in Tehran that killed 13 people as US president Donald Trump warned the nation was reaping what it sowed. (Photo: AP)
A female suicide bomber blew herself up outside the shrine, while another woman was arrested carrying six grenades, according to the Mizanonline news agency. (Photo: AFP)
The parliament attackers were in their early 20s and spoke Arabic, according to a Revolutionary Guards intelligence official. (Photo: AP)
ISIS released a video of the attackers from inside the building via its Amaq propaganda agency -- a rare claim of responsibility while an attack was still going on, suggesting a degree of coordination. (Photo: AP)
It was not clear if the assailants had been able to enter the actual mausoleum. The city was on lockdown, with streets blocked and parts of the metro closed. Journalists were kept away from the shrine by police. (Photo: AP)
The attack on parliament and at the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini shocked Iranians who so far had avoided the bloodshed that has followed the Islamic State group's rise in Syria and Iraq. (Photo: AP)
One of the attackers blew himself up on the fourth floor of the parliament office building as the siege continued. In the coordinated mid-morning attack, a gardener was reported dead and several more injured when armed assailants entered the grounds of Khomeini's mausoleum in the south of the city. (Photo: AP)
A security guard and one other person were killed when four gunmen burst into Tehran's parliament complex with rifles and a pistol. (Photo: AP)
Intensified gunfire was heard from the neighbouring offices as Fars news agency reported police had launched an assault.

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