A boy is evacuated during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran, Iran.
(Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP).
Hours before Tehran's assaults, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said, "Iran must be punished for its interference in the region".
During the funeral, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani called the USA the "international" version of the Islamic State group and said Washington had exchanged democracy for money, a reference to a recent huge arms deal between the US and Saudi Arabia.
The U.S. statement of solidarity with the attack's victims is notable because of the deep distrust between the U.S. and Iran. But no proof or specifics were offered.
The Sunni Muslim militants of Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Shi'ite Muslim state.
As the parliament attack unfolded, gunmen and suicide bombers also struck outside Khomeini's mausoleum on Tehran's southern outskirts.
"Allah permitting, this is the first brigade that was established (in Iran) but it will not be the last", one of them said, as the group sat masked in a circle with their weapons.
Egypt's Foreign Ministry offered its condolences to the families of the deceased on Thursday and called on the global community to intensify its efforts to fight terrorism and its sources of funding. In addition to the 17 victims, more than fifty people were injured, of whom at least six are still in severe condition.
The attacks at Teheran's Parliament complex and the shrine of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Wednesday wounded more than 50 people and were the first claimed in Iran by ISIS.
Ahmad Shojaee, the head of Iranian Legal Medicine Organization, has said that 16 individuals including tree women were among those who lost their lives yesterday, ILNA news agency reported. It came after Mohammad Hossein Zolfaghari, a deputy interior minister, told state television that "law enforcement activities may increase". He did not elaborate.
The operational team that launched these attacks was composed of five terrorists who had criminal record and were linked to Wahhabi and Takfiri [radical] groups.
President Hassan Rouhani on his part called for a united worldwide fight against global terrorism, extremism and violence. The Syrian president spoke to his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rohani by phone on Thursday. However, it stopped short of directly blaming the kingdom for the attack, though many in the country expressed suspicion Iran's regional rival had a hand in the attack.
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This is while Takfirism, which is a trademark of terrorist groups such as Daesh, is largely influenced by Wahhabism, the radical ideology dominating Saudi Arabia and freely preached by Saudi clerics.
The Lebanese terror group Hezbollah Thursday condemned the twin terror attacks in Tehran the day before, describing them as part of an "international, destructive plan" backed by various regional governments.
Tensions have been high in the Middle East since Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed diplomatic and transport ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism.
Iran blamed the Wednesday attacks on Saudi Arabia, though no link has been established.
"They are too small to affect the will of the Iranian nation and its officials", state TV quoted him as saying.
In exchange for Iran rolling back its nuclear program, the USA and other world powers agreed to suspend wide-ranging oil, trade and financial sanctions that had choked the Iranian economy.
US Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass also denounced the President's response to the Iran attack.
Iran denounced Donald Trump's reaction to deadly Islamic State group attacks in Tehran as "repugnant" on Thursday after the US president warned the nation is reaping what it sows.
Trump said "states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote".
During his recent trip to Saudi Arabia, Trump also called for a harder line against Iran advocating for the isolation of the country which he said had "fueled the fires of sectarian conflict and terror".
"Iranian people reject such USA claims of friendship", he tweeted.
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