Two semi-official Iranian news agencies, Fars and Mehr, reported on Wednesday a shooting at the Iranian parliament.
Seven people have been killed in an attack at the Iranian parliament on Wednesday and four have been taken hostage on the upper floors of the building, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted sources on the ground as saying. A second suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the shrine of Iran's revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini in south Tehran, state broadcaster IRIB reported.
In latest reports, Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the two attacks on Iran's parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini's shrine, the group's state news agency AMAQ said.
"Fighters from Islamic state attacked Khomeini's shrine and the Iranian parliament in Tehran," the news agency said. Iran is a key player in efforts against the Islamic State group in both Syria and Iraq.
In the first incident, a security guard was killed when four gunmen burst into Tehran's parliament complex, while a gardener was reported dead when several armed assailants entered the grounds of Khomeini's mausoleum in the south of the city, according to the ISNA news agency.
At least eight people were wounded in the attacks, according to reports.
Fars News Agency said that the male assailant escaped the building, but a ranking member of the parliament told that he was captured as he was on the run.
In the second incident, an armed man opened fire at the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in southern Tehran and wounded a number of people on Wednesday, Fars news agency reported.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini launched the Islamic revolution in 1979.
An armed man had entered at the western entrance of the mausoleum and opened fire before blowing himself up with a suicide vest, the site's head of public relations Ali Khalili told the IRNA news agency.
The mausoleum is in southern Tehran, around 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the parliament building.
Shiite Iran has been singled out as a target by Sunni jihadists, including the Islamic State group, but has largely escaped attacks within its urban centres.
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16:18 IST Shooting incident over in the Iranian Parliament, four attackers dead - IRIB
14:55 IST Wednesday, 7 June 2017
The head of the anti-terrorism department in the Iranian Intelligence Ministry said they have foiled another terrorist plot and have arrested "a terrorist team", state broadcaster IRIB reported.
Iran's intelligence ministry has also asked people to avoid public transport, according to IRIB.
14:36 IST Wednesday, 7 June 2017
One attacker blew himself up in the Iranian parliament - IRIB
Iran's state broadcaster IRIB reported that one attacker at the Iranian parliament exploded a suicide vest in the building, but some other news agencies said the explosion might have been caused by grenades thrown by the assailants.
13:25 IST Wednesday, 7 June 2017
13:08 IST Wednesday, 7 June 2017
People gather outside Iran Parliament in central Tehran after the shooting incident
12:57 IST Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Suicide bombing at tomb of Iran's Khomeini: Report
A suicide bomber detonated explosives at the tomb of Iranian revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini in southern Tehran today, news agency ISNA reported.
The agency reported one person killed but it was unclear if that meant the suicide bomber.
The ILNA news agency said five people had been injured by shooting at the mausoleum.
12:32 IST Wednesday, 7 June 2017
► According to the Tasnim news agency, at least eight people have been injured in the shooting.
► Quoting reporter, Tasnim news said that the lawmakers have been locked in the parliament’s hall, and four security guards have been shot in the incident.
► The attackers are reportedly still inside the parliament building and two of them are armed with AK-47 assault rifles, and the third one has a handgun.
► Fars news agency said in a Twitter post that three gunmen attacked the Imam Khomeini Mausoleum in Tehran.
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