Commuters in the Iranian capital noticed more police than usual on the streets as dawn broke. A senior Interior Ministry official told Iran's state TV the male attackers wore women's attire.
INSKEEP: I'm thinking about the two buildings that were attacked - one of them, this giant, nearly pyramid-like structure, the Parliament building, the other the shrine to Ayatollah Khomeini - huge. However, it stopped short of directly blaming the kingdom for the attack, though many in the country expressed suspicion that Iran's regional rival had a hand in the attack.
As the parliament siege was unfolding, gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the shrine of Iran's revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which is located just outside Tehran.
The comments sparked anger from Iranians on social media, who recalled the vigils in Tehran that followed the September 11 attacks.
"World public opinion, especially in Iran, sees the fact that this terrorist act was perpetrated soon after the meeting of the USA president with the heads of one of the reactionary regional states that has always supported ... terrorists as to be very meaningful", the statement read, according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency.
"Let us tell the people of Iran that while we have serious disagreements with them on a number of issues, that today when they are mourning, when they are dealing with the shock of a terrorist attack, today is not the day to go forward with this piece of legislation", Sen. And he joined us this morning by Skype, giving us the latest that we know about an attack on two different targets inside Iran's capital, Tehran.
In angry language, the Revolutionary Guards vowed to respond to the attacks, implicitly including Saudi Arabia.
"World public opinion, especially in Iran, sees the fact that this terrorist act was perpetrated soon after the meeting of the US president with the heads of one of the reactionary regional states that has always supported ... terrorists as to be very meaningful", the statement read.
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"These fire-crackers that happened today will not have the slightest effect on the will of the people", Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said after the twin attacks. It also released a forty-minute video in Farsi calling for Sunnis in Iran to rebel against the regime-and to take the country back to its Sunni roots.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards accused Riyadh and Washington of being "involved" in Wednesday's attacks, drawing a link to Trump's recent visit to Saudi Arabia.
Trump's first overseas visit to Saudi Arabia last month positioned the US firmly on the side of the kingdom and other Arab states in their stance against Iran.
Assailants armed with Kalashnikov rifles stormed the parliament building Wednesday and one of the attackers blew himself up inside, where a session had been in progress. "They have been angry about Iran's power in the region". A woman was also arrested.
The attacks took place less than a month after the re-election of President Hassan Rouhani, a moderate, whose landslide victory defeated candidates supported by the hardline clergy and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is responsible for national security. The revered shrine was not damaged.
"Now that they are unable to maintain the promise of territory, attacking Iran is to their advantage", she said. He did not elaborate.
The attacks have drawn widespread worldwide condemnation.
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