The Wednesday attacks were directed at Iran's Parliament building and the mausoleum of the late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini and left 17 dead and 52 wounded, reports Efe news.
Police in Iran killed four Islamic State suspects, two of them foreigners, in the southern province of Hormuzgan and seized explosives, guns and the group's flag, an Iranian news agency said on Monday.
Iran has tracked down and killed several suspected jihadists including the alleged mastermind of twin attacks in Tehran last week, a security official and a minister have said.
In a statement, Trump expressed sympathy for the victims of the Teheran attacks but also implied that Iran is itself a sponsor of terrorism, saying, "We underscore that states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote".
Iranian officials have alleged that the United States was extending supporting to the ISIL, which has taken responsibility of recent attacks in Iran, claiming country has evidence in possession to prove it. He did not however state which country had been involved. The information added that in the raids were also confiscated "many documents and weapons" that were in the hands of the individuals to whom the authorities linked them with "Wahhabi cells", referring to the predominant Sunni Islamic conservative doctrine in Saudi Arabia.
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These were hard conversations with a tight-knit community that is understandably distraught, frustrated and increasingly angry . Khan said images of the 1970's building being ravaged by fire "should be forever seared into our nation's collective memory".
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei castigated the U.S. and Saudi Arabia in a message of condolence to the families of the dead, having previously played down the attacks.
The Leader said the terrorist attacks are "clear examples of the vicious hostility of the mercenaries" of arrogant countries against the decent Iranian people and Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Friday called the USA the "international" version of the Islamic State and accused Washington of exchanging democracy for money. Some carried pictures of Khamenei that said, "We are ready to sacrifice our blood for you". Unlike other leaders, Rouhani, a moderate, didn't blame foreign powers, but rather said the attacks targeted peace and democracy.
The intelligence ministry said 41 suspects were arrested in Tehran, in the northwestern provinces of Kermanshah and Kurdistan, and in West Azerbaijan, near the borders with Iraq and Turkey.
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