The Tehran Security Council had convened an emergency meeting after two terror attacks occurred on the Iranian Parliament and Imam Khomeini Mausoleum respectively on Wednesday.
A day after the twin terrorist attacks in Tehran, Iranian state media said the death toll has risen to 17 and Iran's foreign minister denounced the official White House response as "repugnant". In attacking the building, the Islamic State has tried to send the message not only that it hates Shiites and their doctrine but it also hates the Iranian version of democracy - parliamentary or Islamic.
The ministry said that the gunmen had a record in "terrorism" with links to the Sunni extremist groups, who had then joined the ISIS group and fought alongside the ISIS militants in Mosul and Raqqa.
Five of the attackers died and, Reuters reports, more than half a dozen suspects have been arrested in connection with the assault - the first major attack Iran has experienced in years.
The attacks have been claimed by Islamic State but Iranian hardliners believe that Saudi Arabia was behind the attacks.
"This terrorist attack happened only a week after the meeting between the United States president and the backward leaders who support terrorists", said Iran's military arm, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, using its customary terminology, "backward leaders", for Saudi Arabia, in a statement trumpeted across the Iranian news media. Sunni Saudi Arabia denied any involvement in the attacks.
In the latest joint operation by the Iranian intelligence and security forces on Saturday morning, members of a terrorist cell were identified and arrested on the outskirts of Tehran, Press TV reported.
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Two days later, terrorists struck in Tehran.
The announcement reassures that the other elements of ISIL terrorist group related to Wednesday attack were identified and arrested before managing to do anything. ISIL uses terror to set people against one another, so by that standard, its assault on the Iranian parliament and on visitors to a shrine to Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, may prove to have been much more successful than its recent strikes in the United Kingdom.
"Know that after Iran, your turn will come".
Iranians from all walks of life held a massive funeral ceremony for the victims of the terrorist incidents on Friday.
ISIS, which adheres to a puritanical strain of Sunni Islam, considers Shias heretics and has carried out numerous attacks against Shia civilians, in Iraq in particular.
"The terrorists first went by vehicle to the mausoleum and after dropping two of them off, went to the city center to attack parliament", the police said in a statement published on state media.
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