The Director of the Forensic Medicine Organization, Ahmad Shojai, was quoted by the state agency IRNA as saying that they have identified 13 bodies, reports Efe news.
In the message, Kim expressed his deep sympathy and condolences to the victims and bereaved families, said the report.
The Islamic State group claimed the attacks on the Iranian parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini's mausoleum on Wednesday. Authorities said the death count had risen to 17 and scores were wounded.
Five of the men who launched an attack in the heart of Iran's capital previously fought for Islamic State, the country's intelligence ministry has said.
A motorcycle repairman reads a newspaper at his shop near Iran's parliament building in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, May 8, 2017, a day after a pair of stunning Islamic State-claimed attacks on Iran's parliament and the tomb of its.
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.
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Iranian authorities have said assailants were Iranian nationals, adding they have arrested six suspects, including one woman, since the attack Wednesday in Tehran. Two of the victims were women, it added, citing official figures.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responded on Twitter, describing the White House statement as "repugnant".
State TV also showed pictures of ammunition, rifles and binoculars laid out next to an Islamic State flag, all, it said, taken from the attackers.
Afterwards the White House issued a statement with a double-edged comment that referred to the West's long-held belief that Iran was a state sponsor...
Iran blamed the Wednesday attacks on Saudi Arabia, casting them in the context of a broader regional conflict that encompasses the war inside Syria.
Iran has indirectly suggested that Saudi Arabia, its major regional rival and a US ally, played a role in the attack.




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