Gunmen and suicide bombers carried out coordinated attacks on Iran's parliament and the tomb of revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini on Wednesday, state media reported, killing at least three people.
Concurrently with the attack at the mausoleum, the second terror team, which included four people, sought to enter the official building of the parliament but were confronted by security forces, the statement said.
State TV later said four attackers are involved in the parliament attack, and that eight people were wounded.
"Today's terrorist attacks in Tehran will make the Islamic Republic of Iran more determined in the fight against regional terrorism, extremism and violence", he said in a statement published by ISNA news agency.
A woman is evacuated during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran, Iran.
The unusual attacks in Iran prompted the Interior Ministry to call for an urgent security meeting, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
Khomeini was Iran's first Supreme Leader and he led the 1979 uprising that toppled the last shah of Iran.
The attack comes a day after Saudi Arabia and several Sunni allies moved to isolate Qatar, the one Persian Gulf country that maintains relations with Iran.
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Saudi Arabia has long pointed to the absence of IS attacks on Iran as suggestion of Tehran's culpability.
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"I was in the visitors' lobby and suddenly shooting began".
Some reports indicate one of the attackers in parliament had explosive belt on him. During this attack, a female terrorist opened fire and then blew herself up at the scene, murdering at least one and injuring several more.
Police helicopters circled over the parliament building and all mobile phone lines from inside were disconnected.
IS released a video of the attackers from inside the building via its Amaq agency - a rare claim of responsibility while an attack was still going on.
It marks the first attack in Iran claimed by the extremist group, which is at war with Iranian-backed forces in Syria and Iraq.
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