We are convinced of the need to work together in the fight against this worldwide scourge.
In May 2016, the Iranian authorities announced that they had dismantled 20 terrorist cells and foiled a plot involving 50 different targets throughout the country.
He said that one of the attackers at the shrine had been "neutralized", in addition to the suicide bomber, and that the attackers at parliament have been surrounded.
Gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs entered the parliament on Wednesday morning. One of the assailants later blew himself up inside, according to a statement issued by Iran's state news agency, IRNA.
Attackers dressed as women burst through parliament's main entrance in central Tehran, deputy interior minister Mohammad Hossein Zolfaghari said, according to the Tasnim news agency.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini launched the Islamic revolution in 1979. "Moscow decisively condemns such terrorist attacks", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that "the continuation of a series of terror attacks again underlines the need for coordinated actions in the fight against terror and IS".
In one video from inside the chamber, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani dismissed the attacks, saying they were a "minor matter" and that security forces were dealing with them.
The IS group's Aamaq news agency released a 24-second video purportedly shot inside the parliament building during the siege.
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The two attacks happened nearly simultaneously and killed up to seven people.
Putin said the attacks underscore the need for deeper worldwide co-operation to fight terrorism and confirmed Moscow's willingness to aid Iran.
About five hours after the first reports, Iranian media said four people who had attacked parliament were dead and the incident was over.
Islamic State has lambasted "heretic" Shi'ite Iran for helping the Syrian and Iraqi governments battle Islamic State, which considers Shi'ites to be infidels.
Heavy gunfire could be heard. However, we can say that such efforts have returned to Iran like a boomerang with the recent attacks. In any case, and regardless of which group carried out the terrorist attacks and whoever their foreign backers may or may not have been, it wouldn't be the first time that Iran has fallen victim to terrorism. Eight people are reported wounded in the attack.
Police helicopters circled over the parliament building and all mobile phone lines from inside were disconnected.
"The attack can be viewed as an attack on Iran's national and religious identity", she said, and predicted that Daesh is testing "an artificial sectarian war" in the Middle East. It did not provide further details about Wednesday's shooting.
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