Iran attacks: Twin assaults on parliament and shrine rock Tehran

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Tehran, Iran - Attackers have mounted simultaneous gun and suicide bomb assaults on Iran's parliament building and the tomb of the republic's revolutionary founder in Tehran.

At least seven people were killed and 35 others injured in the twin assaults, the semi-official Fars agency reported. The attacks were the most audacious

State media reported that gunmen stormed the parliament building in Tehran and went on a shooting spree. At least one attacker detonated a suicide bomb. Five people died and at least 25 were injured there, Fars reported.

At the same time, a gun and suicide bomb attack targeted the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum on the southern outskirts of the Iranian capital. Two people died and 10 were injured at the shrine, Fars said.

A woman was arrested after the attack at the tomb, Fars reported, adding that another attacker has been surrounded by security officers.

CNN has not independently verified the number of victims and it was not immediately clear whether the number of dead included the suicide bombers.

 

A video still apparently showing the moment a bomb was detonated at the Ayatollah Khomeini shrine.

The attackers were holding a number of hostages inside the highly-fortified parliament building, Press TV reported, as Iranian officials scrambled to establish who was behind the attacks or whether they were coordinated.

A picture from semi-official Fars news agency shows a man lowering a young boy from a window of the parliament building onto the street as another man holding a gun watches over them from another window. The man with the gun is reportedly a policeman helping with the evacuation.

Attacks of this nature are extremely rare in Iran, particularly in the highly-controlled capital where tourist and government sites are tightly policed.

Gun ownership is heavily controlled in Iran, raising speculation that the attackers' guns were smuggled into the country.

Symbolic attack

Iran's parliament, also called the Islamic Consultative Assembly or Majlis, has 290 members. It has female members and has representatives for religious minorities including Christians, Zoroastrians and Jews.

It is currently unclear how the attacker or attackers entered the parliament building, which has multiple security checkpoints.

The location of the mausoleum attack is symbolic, targeting the tomb of the Islamic Republic's founder and first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He led the revolution that overthrew the Shah in 1979 and was Iran's leader for 10 years.

The mausoleum is located around 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the parliament.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/07/middleeast/iran-parliament-shooting/index.html

 

But y'all hypocrite 

 

[littlepotter 76,610]

I can't believe they went as far as the parliament. Literally nowhere is safe. RIP 

[SXXXDREAMS 72]

I despise Iran's aggresive stance towards the West so I am not sad at all about the parliament but I am extremely sad about any innocent people dying that had literally nothing to so with it! Shame! 

[Panchecco 17,882]

I wonder if the situation will only get worse from now on or if (maybe in 10 years) we'll be safer and there won't be so much destruction and evil in the world

[JustaMonster 4,909]

Everybody's got to love each other
Stop throwin' stones at your sisters and your brothers
Man, it wasn't that long ago we were all living in the jungle
So why do we gotta put each other down
When there's more than enough love to g-g-go around?

These words come to mind everytime I hear about one of these attacks 

[MonsterPaws 2,745]

44 minutes ago, Panchecco said:

I wonder if the situation will only get worse from now on or if (maybe in 10 years) we'll be safer and there won't be so much destruction and evil in the world

Honestly, in the world kids are growing up in today, I highly doubt it'll be any better in 10 years when they're older  

[LordEnigma 11,313]

1 hour ago, Panchecco said:

I wonder if the situation will only get worse from now on or if (maybe in 10 years) we'll be safer and there won't be so much destruction and evil in the world

... have you studied history? Did we forget about the Nazis? Slavery? Etc.?

Destruction and evil have been apart of human civilization since day 1.

[LordEnigma 11,313]

29 minutes ago, MonsterPaws said:

Honestly, in the world kids are growing up in today, I highly doubt it'll be any better in 10 years when they're older  

Refer to my first post.

Kids from EVERY generation have grown up with these things happening around them.

Fear-inducing statements only make the problem worse, imo.

[Panchecco 17,882]

2 hours ago, Alexander Levi said:

... have you studied history? Did we forget about the Nazis? Slavery? Etc.?

Destruction and evil have been apart of human civilization since day 1.

Of course I know but things got "better and better" after world war II (at least in Europe and America) 

I was trying to say that it seems like there is too much evil and destruction in the world nowadays I wasn't in any way trying to say that there has never been evil and destruction before 

 

[Morphine Prince 109,645]

 

[Morphine Prince 109,645]

OH 

 

[PoshLife 17,019]

I wish that I could dance on a single prayer

I wish I could be strong without somebody there

I wish that I could dance on a single prayer

I wish I could be strong without the scheisse yeah

[Serendipity 7,821]

On Wednesday, June 07, 2017 at 4:21 PM, SXXXDREAMS said:

I despise Iran's aggresive stance towards the West so I am not sad at all about the parliament but I am extremely sad about any innocent people dying that had literally nothing to so with it! Shame! 

The mess Iran iss in right now is because of the West.

 

They had a secular democratic government back in 1953 which was overthrown by a puppet monarch so that the West could get cheaper oil.

 

Then in 1979, their revolution got hijacked by mullahs and they have been forced to live under a theoracracy