Parliament Speaker:

Certain Measures Taken to Prevent Terrorist Attacks in Iran

Rasa - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani announced that certain measures have been adopted by the security and intelligence forces to prevent repetition of terrorist attacks in the country.

News ID: 430269

Date: 11 June 2017 - 22:34

RNA - "Certain efforts have been made in the past but some (additional) moved have also been adopted to prevent such incidents," Larijani said after holding a joint meeting with the Iranian intelligence and interior ministers and Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami in Tehran on Sunday.

He added that the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission has also been entrusted with pursuing plans to increase security measures to prevent repetition of terrorist attacks in the country.

Three unknown male assailants fired several rounds at the guards protecting the parliament building in Tehran on Wednesday morning. The assailants opened their way into the parliament's administrative building while shooting at the guards.

A similar attack took place at the holy shrine of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, parallel with the parliament attack.

17 people, including the parliament's guards, were killed and 52 others were wounded in the twin attacks.

The Iranian intelligence ministry announced in a statement on Thursday that the terrorists who carried out the Wednesday twin attacks on the parliament and the holy shrine of late Imam Khomeini were ISIL members who also had a record of fighting in Iraq and Syria.

"The ISIL team which participated in the terrorist operations at Imam Khomeini shrine and the parliament were 5 infamous terrorists affiliated to the Wahhabi and Takfiri groups who had left the country after being recruited by the ISIL terrorist grouplet and took part in the terrorist grouplet's crimes in Mosul and Raqqa," the statement said.

It added that the terrorists had entered the country in August 2016 under the command of an ISIL ringleader named Abu Ayesheh who intended to carry out terrorist operations in the country's religious cities.

The terrorists fled the country after their group was disbanded and their commander, Abu Ayesheh, and other ringleaders of the group were killed by the Iranian security forces, according to the statement.

The statement came after Iranian Intelligence Minister Seyed Mahmoud Alavi announced that the country's security forces have foiled over 100 plots to carry out terrorist attacks in the country in the past 2 years.

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