13 June, 2017
Numerous injured remained in intensive care at Cina Hospital in the capital Thursday.
A sixth assailant - a female - was caught alive and is being interrogated, Tasnim news agency reported, citing the chairman of parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, Alaeddin Boroujerdi.
Among those shot in the attack and still hospitalized Thursday was a former presidential bodyguard.
"The network of this terrorist group has been identified and some of its members have been arrested", Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said.
Akbar had been heading home Wednesday and stopped at a bank to guarantee a loan for a friend when he heard the attack at parliament and rushed over to help. But they could not find their way to the main hall and ended up in the offices of Members of Parliament (MP) where they took some of the MP assistants hostages.
Other Iranian leaders sought to play down the attacks, with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saying: "These firecrackers that happened today will not have the slightest effect on the will of the people".
The attackers were armed with rifles and pistols and at least two blew themselves up with suicide vests, Iranian media reported.
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates cut ties with Qatar this week and has blocked several of the country's media outlets.
The total number of detained suspects in the attacks has been unknown so far. The Islamic State group claimed the attacks.
The terrorists first went by the vehicle to Imam Khomeini's Mausoleum and after dropping two of them, went to the city center to carry out the terrorist attack on the parliament, it added.
The siege at parliament lasted about three hours, and it appeared that not all lawmakers were aware of the extent of the violence at first.
The terrorists went to the fourth floor and stayed there and the IRGC forces immediately moved to evacuate the wounded people, the commander said, adding, "If this had not been carried out, terrorists would have killed many of them."If true, it would be the Sunni Muslim extremist group's first successful attack in Shiite-led Iran, a nation it regards as a leader of apostates.
June 8, 2017Zarif's tweet was in response to a statement from President Trump on Wednesday that condemned the terror attacks, and warned Iran against sponsoring terrorism.
Larijani also criticized a Wednesday decision by the U.S. Senate to move forward on a new set of sanctions against Iran, including its elite Revolutionary Guards, a move that came on the same day as the Tehran attacks.
Authorities have raised the death toll in a pair of Islamic State-claimed attacks on Iran's parliament and the tomb of its revolutionary leader to 16 people killed. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted that Trump's statement was "repugnant".
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have suggested that the attack was linked to Saudi Arabia.
Others also blamed the kingdom.
