At least 12 people were killed when six attackers mounted simultaneous gun and suicide bomb attacks on Iran's Parliament building and the tomb of the republic's revolutionary founder, in one of the most audacious assaults to hit Tehran in decades.
Iranian authorities said five of the attackers were Iranian nationals recruited by IS, while Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps blamed the assault on regional rival Saudi Arabia and has threatened revenge.
An Iranian news report says that Tehran is investigating the potential role of Saudi Arabia in Wednesday's deadly dual militant attacks in Tehran.
The ministry added that the group returned to Iran previous year trying to commit acts of terrorism in the holy cities of the country but they failed to do so since the security forces inflicted damage on their network while killing its ringleader named Abu Aisha.
Iran's foreign Minister has rejected Donald Trump's condolences for the deadly attacks in Tehran, calling the U.S. president's words "repugnant".
The Islamic State group claimed the Tehran attacks; no link has emerged of Saudi Arabia's involvement.
Newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani has said the attacks would make Iran more united.
CCTV footage shows terrified men and women duck their heads and run for cover as a terrorist holding a colt pistol charges towards them.
Iran is one of the world powers engaged in the ground war against Isis, funding troops and firepower in order to assist the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Shia militias in the Iraqi coalition battle for Mosul.
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Hezbollan and Iran are locked in twin military conflicts in Iraq and Syria against Islamic State jihadists and Gulf- and Western-backed local opposition forces. That was condemned by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who tweeted: "Repugnant WH (White House) statement... as Iranians counter terror backed by U.S. clients".
According to the Guardian, this the first attack conducted by ISIS inside majority-Shia Iran.
Around half an hour later, an attacker opened fire at the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini, injuring several members of the public, Iran's English-language Press TV said.
The intelligence ministry said 41 suspects were arrested in Tehran, in the northwestern provinces of Kermanshah and Kurdistan, and in West Azerbaijan, near the borders with Iraq and Turkey.
According to the AFP, in one part of the video, the narrator said, "Iran raised its slogans against the United States and Israel to deceive the Sunnis, while Iranian Jews live safely in Iran under its protection, and it has provided them with temples and churches as seen in Tehran and Isfahan".
The ministry issued a statement on its website with bloody pictures of the men's bodies.
"Terror-sponsoring despots threaten to bring the fight to our homeland".
The semi-official Tasnim news agency said on of the wounded people had died in hospital, bringing the death toll to 17.
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