Summary⎙ Print Iranian authorities linked the Islamic State attackers to a larger cell whose leader was killed by security forces past year. The Daesh extremist group claimed responsibility for the attacks. State TV broadcast the ceremony live.
The terrorist incident, Ayatollah Khamenei said, was a "clear indication of the animosity and malicious hostility of the agents of the arrogance with the noble Iranian nation and everything related to the revolution, the Islamic system and its exalted late leader (Imam Khomeini)".
The militant group's Amaq news agency released a video on Thursday evening showing what it claimed was a message from the Tehran attackers.
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.
"Six people who were certainly connected to Wednesday's terrorist attacks in Tehran were identified and arrested", Aliakbar Garousi was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency.
Trump said the USA would "grieve and pray" for the victims, but added: "We underscore that states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote".
Trump's comments also brought criticism from Iranians on social media, who recalled their government's offers of support and the candlelight vigils held in Iran after the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States.
Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on his Twitter account: "Repugnant White House statement".
Zarif tweeted: "The Iranian people reject such USA claims".
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He said anti-Iranian remarks by Saudi Arabia's foreign minister and U.S. President Donald Trump are a "matter of disgrace" for them.
The "spilled blood of the innocent will not remain unavenged", the Revolutionary Guard statement said.
Gabriel was subsequently and separately visited by the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. "They have been angry about Iran's power in the region". They never named the country directly, but the implication was clear.
Iran's foreign minister is rejecting USA statements about the attacks on Iran's parliament and the tomb of its revolutionary leader.
A police officer stands guard as vehicles drive in front of Iran's parliament building in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, May 8, 2017. One showed a toddler being handed through a first-floor window to safety outside as an armed man looked on.
Several gunmen and suicide bombers attacked parliament and the shrine to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, setting off an hours-long siege at the legislature that ended with four attackers dead. Both would indicate a degree of instability and tensions that the Iranian leadership would rather not acknowledge.
Iran was rocked by a deadly terror attack on Wednesday which struck in the country's capital, Tehran. A woman was also arrested.
Iranian investigators are reportedly looking into Iranian Kurds who are associated with ISIS as possible suspects of the attack, The Washington Examiner reported.
Meanwhile, President Trump's statement on the attack has prompted criticism in Iran.
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