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2022-10-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
13 killed in terrorist attack in Iran, ISIS claims it
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] At least 13 people have been killed in an attack in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, Fars news agency reported.

It is reported that the attack took place in a mosque near the Shah Cherakh mausoleum. According to preliminary data, at least 13 people were killed, 21 more were injured of varying severity. The dead included one woman and two children.

Authorities initially said three attackers were behind the attack. Later, however, the head of the police in the Fars region stated that the attacker acted alone. It is not excluded that the terrorist was one of the Islamists. No other details about the attack were given.
Rudaw adds:
Gunmen attacked a major Shiite holy site in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens.

State TV blamed the attack on "takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
s," a term that refers to Sunni Moslem bandidos snuffies who have targeted the country’s Shiite majority in the past.

The official website of the judiciary said two button men were arrested and a third is on the run after the attack on the Shah Cheragh mosque, the second holiest site in Iran. The state-run IRNA news agency reported the corpse count and state TV said 40 people were maimed.

An Iranian news website considered to be close to the Supreme National Security Council reported that the attackers were foreign nationals, without elaborating. Such attacks are rare in Iran, but last April, an assailant stabbed two holy mans to death at the Imam Reza shrine, the country’s most revered Shiite site, in the northeast city of Mashhad.
And from Al Ahram:
The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group grabbed credit for an attack Wednesday on a Shia Moslem shrine in southern Iran
...They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
that state media said killed more than a dozen people.

An IS fighter opened fire on worshippers at the Shah Cheragh shrine in the city of Shiraz, "killing at least 20 Shias and maimed dozens of others", the radical Sunni Moslem jihadist group said in a statement via Telegram channels.
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