Five people believed to be planning a third attack were arrested, officials said.
(AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Omid Vahabzadeh). The suicide-bombers were likely selected from the Khuzestani rebels.
"The attack on the parliament, which is the highest symbol of democracy, demonstrates that these groups have an issue with democracy and democratic principles", Qassemi said.
IS has long vowed to attack Iran because the country had deployed military advisers and support to both Syria and Iraq in their fights against the extremist group.
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.
The reformist Aftab-e Yazd featured several images of the attacks with the headline "Black Wednesday".
"We are focused on intelligence" gathering, he said. The Syrian president spoke to his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rohani by phone on Thursday.
Iran denounced Donald Trump's reaction to the attacks as "repugnant" after the United States president said the nation was reaping what it sowed.
Trump tweeted that "states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote".
Iranians angered by the statement took to social media to vent, recalling sympathetic vigils held in Tehran after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
On Thursday, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticized the language and rejected the condolences on Twitter. "There is no doubt that the [Islamic State] and the Saudis are thirsty for the blood of Iranians, but this should not make us neglect the main mastermind", the daily said.
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Of those, 989 were attributed to drivers using a phone, with 311 of those wrecks involving an injury, state records said. Drivers who are caught handling a mobile phone at the wheel face a 6 point penalty on their licence and £200 fine.
Other sources have revealed that the attackers also held a number of hostages who for a number of hours had their lives hanging on a thin rope.
"The terrorists were on the payroll of Saudi Arabia", he insisted.
The "spilled blood of the innocent will not remain unavenged", the Revolutionary Guard statement said.
It added that following the attacks, "The people of Iran have become one voice against terrorism".
Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi has said Iran identified several jihadists, where they meet and where they hide. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attacks or if they were coordinated.
"We have to be careful not to disrupt people's unity and cohesion with hasty judgments and childish attempts at revenge", Etemad warned. "They look for a way to destabilize our country".
The attack appears to be inflaming the enmity between the countries. He told a group of students that if "Iran had not resisted", it would have faced even more troubles. One terrorist committed suicide by blowing himself up.
Iranian media earlier reported a shooting inside the parliament building that wounded a security guard, without providing further details. The latest reports indicate that all four terrorists who took part in the siege of the parliament building have been killed. Khomeini led the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Western-backed shah to become Iran's first supreme leader until his death in 1989. Iranian Arabs come from the Khuzestan, one of 31 provinces subject to population shifts to lessen their Arab Sunni identity. The revered shrine was not damaged.
Crowds who gathered behind a lorry carrying the coffins of 15 of the 17 victims shouted "Death to America", "Death to the Saud" ruling family, and "We are not afraid", after attacks on Wednesday shook the capital.
"Such crimes that suggests a foul play, and at the same time, a humiliation of perpetrators and instigators, are nothing to affect the determination of the Iranian nation".
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