In the attack at the mausoleum, one suicide bomber blew himself up while the second one was killed in a gunfight, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. But we need to see Iran as it is, not as its rivals and enemies in the region would have us see it, for their own purposes.
The elite force vowed in a statement on Wednesday to seek revenge. But no proof or specifics were offered.
"We condemn terrorist attacks anywhere they occur and we condemn the killing of the innocent anywhere it occurs", Jubeir said.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani called the attack a cowardly act.
Egypt's Foreign Ministry offered its condolences to the families of the deceased on Thursday and called on the global community to intensify its efforts to fight terrorism and its sources of funding. Two of the victims were women, it added, citing official figures. He did not elaborate. More than 50 people were wounded and at least 13 have died.
The attackers struck at Iran's most potent symbols: its parliament complex in central Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who led the 1979 Islamic revolution.
It identified the men only by their first names, saying they didn't want to release their last names due to security and privacy concerns for their families.
The ministry issued a statement on its website with bloody pictures of the men's corpses.
Alison translated the extremist group's message to: "Fighters from the Islamic State have attacked the Khomeini shrine and the parliament building in central Tehran".
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Kerry cautioned lawmakers to "tread carefully" in pushing ahead with new sanctions against Iran in the wake of President Hassan Rouhani's re-election to another four-year term.
The powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps accused Saudi Arabia of being behind the action, a rare such incident in Iran. Both Iran and the Syrian government portray the Syrian war as a conflict against Western- and Gulf-sponsored terrorism.
Some experts have speculated that recruitment efforts were unsuccessful because of Iran's relative stability, while conflicting reports indicate that Iran has prevented as many as 1,500 Iranians from joining ISIS, likely through Tehran's notoriously heavy-handed police measures.
"We have to stop tiptoeing around the idea that Saudi Arabia has nothing to do with ISIS". Daesh is a Salafist Sunni group, and of course, Iran is Shi'a, so from one point of view, this is just another operation in the millennium-long fight between the Sunni and Shi'a branches of Islam. It said they returned to Iran in August under the command of an Islamic State leader and escaped when authorities initially broke up their extremist cell.
One man, recovering in a hospital bed, told state TV he was waiting to meet an MP when the shooting began.
Iran has slammed US President Donald Trump's response to Wednesday's twin terror attacks in Tehran as "repugnant", as the death toll from the ISIS-claimed assaults rose to 16.
"The Iranian people reject such US claims", Zarif said via Twitter.
Police on Thursday said they now held six suspects as part of their investigation into the attacks.
The U.S. statement, which expressed grief for the victims, concluded with the phrase "states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote". The attacks also coincide with the rise of a USA administration much more hawkish against Iran than the previous one.
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