During a televised interview on Saturday, Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said that the extremist commander was killed earlier in the day by intelligence forces.
"The terrorists first went by auto to the mausoleum and after dropping two of them off, went to the city centre to attack parliament", the police said in a statement published on state media.
On Friday, Iranian authorities said the assailants were Iranian nationals and that they had arrested six suspects, including one woman, since the attack Thursday in Tehran.
The Intelligence Ministry has arrested dozens of people affiliated with Daesh across Iran over the past days.
Separately, the head of the judiciary in Fars province said seven people were detained in the southern Larestan area for possible ties to ISIS, Iran's ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.
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Trump said the U.S. would "grieve and pray" for the victims, but he added: "We underscore that states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote". On Friday, the USA embassy in Saudi Arabia issued a security notice to U.S. citizens recommending that they "exercise caution in places frequented by foreigners due to the continuing risk of terrorist attacks. across the Kingdom". Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a tweet on Thursday called the White House comments "repugnant" and accused the USA of supporting terror.
Abu Aisha was killed and the network forced to flee the country, the statement added.
The ministry said the group returned to Iran in the summer of 2016 to carry out terrorist operations in religious places, and escaped when authorities broke up their cell. Two of the attackers eventually detonated explosive vests themselves, while the others were shot dead by security forces.
IS has threatened to step up recruitment within Iran, releasing its first Persian-language video in March in which it threatened to "conquer Iran and restore it to the Sunni Muslim nation as it was before".
Wahhabism is the trademark of many terror outfits spreading death and destruction in the Middle East for years, including IS, which Iran is deeply involved in fighting with in Syria and Iraq.
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