Tehran attack: Targeting Iran’s national symbols
June 7, 2017
President Rouhani calls for unity to fight terror, but Revolutionary Guard vows ‘revenge’ after attack killed 12 people.
Armed attackers and suicide bombers have targeted two of the most important national symbols of Iran, leaving at least 12 people dead and throwing the country into a state of unease, amid already heightened regional tensions.
Wednesday’s attack on the national parliament and the shrine of the Islamic Republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini were “unprecedented” actions against state institutions in recent years, and it could reverberate across the Middle East, said Reza Khaasteh, a journalist of the Tehran-based Iran Front Page.
“We did not have any similar attack in Iran for a long time,” Khaasteh told Al Jazeera. “This one is like those that happened in Europe.”
