Thousands mourn Tehran victims as officials lambast US, Saudi

Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country’s authorities have arrested seven suspects for supporting the Islamic State-claimed dual attacks that killed 17 people in Tehran.

Terrorist group of ISIL has claimed responsibility for the recent fatal attacks in Tehran.

Scores of people were also wounded.

Meanwhile, Iran police chief Gen Hossein Ashtari said several people with connections to the attackers were arrested around the capital area.

The first attack was made by a four-jihadists team that carried assault rifles, the attackers wore suicide vests attempted to enter the administrative building of the Iranian Parliament. These are nothing but increasing the hatred towards the United States and their agents in the region such as Saudi government.

Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s (NCRI) condemned the attack, stating: “ISIS’s conduct clearly benefits the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, who wholeheartedly welcomes it as an opportunity to overcome his regime’s regional and worldwide impasse and isolation”.

“We appeal to the US administration to rely on their own sources and not on countries with political agendas”, Qatar’s ambassador to the US, Meshal Hamad Al Thani, wrote in Twitter. We are the agents of nobody.

United States officials insisted the two men were sending the same message with different emphases, aimed at encouraging their Arab allies to put aside grievances and focus on fighting terrorism.

Larijani also criticized a decision by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday to move forward on new sanctions against Iran, including its elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, a move that came on the same day as the Tehran attacks. Doha denies the accusation.

In an apparent escalation of the crisis, staff at Al Jazeera, Qatar’s influential satellite television news channel which often infuriates the rulers of the Arab world, said on Thursday its computer systems were under cyber attack.

The attacks come amid already heightened tensions in the Middle East, as Saudi Arabia and other Arab states moved to isolate Qatar this week over the Gulf state’s alleged support for Islamist radicals in the region and its ties with Iran.

On Friday, the USA embassy in Saudi Arabia issued a security notice to US citizens recommending that they “exercise caution in places frequented by foreigners due to the continuing risk of terrorist attacks… across the Kingdom”.