Nadia Khomami and agencies
Wednesday 7 June 2017 11.15 BST

Gunmen and suicide bombers have carried out apparently coordinated attacks on Iran’s parliament and the tomb of the revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, killing a number of people.

Four gunmen burst into Tehran’s parliament complex with rifles and a pistol, and one of the attackers blew himself up on the fourth floor, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported, putting the death toll at three.
Tasnim news agency said unconfirmed sources on the ground were reporting that seven people including a guard had been killed. There were further, unconfirmed reports that a number of MPs had been taken hostage.

It is unclear how the attackers got past security checkpoints to enter the parliament building. Police helicopters were circling over the building, entrance and exit gates were closed, and mobile phone lines from inside were disconnected.

Reporters inside the chamber, where a session had been in progress, were ordered to remain there.
Witnesses said the attackers were shooting from the fourth floor of the parliament building down at people in the streets below.

Ebrahim Ghanimi, who was passing by the building when it was attacked, told the Associated Press: “I thought that children were playing with fireworks, but I realised people were hiding and lying down on the streets.”

About half an hour after the initial attack at parliament, three to four people entered the western entrance of Khomeini’s tomb complex and opened fire, before one of the attackers detonated a suicide belt. A security guard and a gardener were reportedly killed, and at least four people injured.

The ILNA agency said security forces were dismantling a bomb at the mausoleum, which is in southern Tehran, about 12 miles from the parliament building.

Iran’s intelligence ministry said it had foiled a third plot and asked people to avoid public transport. The state broadcaster Irib quoted the ministry as saying: “Members of a third group were arrested before being able to carry out any attack.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/07/shootings-iranian-parliament-khomeini-shrine

Head slammers and terrorism ehn....





Religion of "peace" indeed.

JasonScolari:
Head slammers and terrorism ehn....





Religion of "peace" indeed.

what has religion got to do with this...
I believe you are xtian and you are judging expressly like that....

sonsomegrigbo:



what has religion got to do with this...
I believe you are xtian and you are judging expressly like that....

Religion of violence- that is Islam. Better an atheist than a muslim.

Where is the chief terrorist defender Ollah1?

Is this attack the fault of America or Iran?

Come and defend the terrorist ooo, work don show

ken4jj:


Where is the chief terrorist defender Ollah1?

Is this attack the fault of America or Iran?

Come and defend the terrorist ooo, work don show

How and where have i defended terroist? You must be block headed

ollah1:



How and where have i defended terroist? You must be block headed

Lol.

venai:
Religion of violence- that is Islam. Better an atheist than a muslim.

u choice of words in wrong totally wrong

Qatar is most likely the next place an attack will occur