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‘REPUGNANT’: IRAN SLAMS US PRESIDENT’S REACTION TO ISLAMIC STATE ATTACKS

Terrorists target Tehran’s parliament complex and shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Tehran

Iran denounced Donald Trump’s reaction to deadly Islamic State (IS) group attacks in Tehran as “repugnant” yesterday after the US president warned the nation is reaping what it sows.

Thirteen people were killed and more than 40 wounded in the attacks on Tehran’s parliament complex and the shrine of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Wednesday, the first claimed by IS in Iran.

Trump said the US would “grieve and pray” for the victims, but added: “We underscore that states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote.”

That was condemned by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who tweeted: “Repugnant WH (White House) statement ... as Iranians counter terror backed by US clients.”

The six attackers were Iranians who had joined IS, the deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Reza Seifollahi, said on state television.

They were armed with rifles and pistols and at least two blew themselves up with suicide vests, Iranian media reported.

Police said five people were arrested around Khomeini’s shrine on suspicion of involvement, while the intelligence ministry said a third team had been stopped before the attacks started.

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.”

The Sunni jihadists of IS consider Shiite Iran to be apostates, and Tehran is deeply involved in fighting the group in both Syria and Iraq.

Iran has a sizeable Sunni population along its restive borders with Iraq and Pakistan from which IS is hoping to recruit.

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