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2023-08-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran arrests four seven more after deadly attack at Shiite shrine, all foreigners
[IsraelTimes ] Tehran says shooting was carried out by 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....
to avenge execution of two men involved in attack on same site last year


Iranian authorities have arrested four more suspects after detaining a lone gunman in the killing of at least one person at a Shiite Moslem shrine, state media reported on Monday.

The attack came less than a year after a similar one on the same holy site, the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in Shiraz, the capital of Fars province in Iran’s south.

The official IRNA news agency quoted Fars provincial chief justice Kazem Mousavi as saying that "four suspects have so far been arrested for links to the attack."

The four are in addition to the gunman whose arrest was announced on Sunday night by Fars commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Yadollah Bouali, who spoke on state TV.

In addition to the one fatality, eight people were maimed, IRNA reported.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Fars provincial governor Mohammad Hadi Imanieh blamed the holy warrior Islamic State group.

He told state TV that the assailant sought "to take Dire Revenge for the execution of two terrorists" convicted of carrying out the similar attack last year.
Rudaw adds:
Iranian security forces on Monday announced they had arrested eight people suspected of being involved in a deadly attack on a major Shiite holy site in Fars province’s Shiraz the day before, adding that all the suspects were “foreigners”.

Gunmen attacked Shiraz’s holy Shah Cheragh mosque on Sunday, killing at least two people and injuring eight others. No parties have claimed responsibility for the incident, but Iran has blamed the Islamic State (ISIS) for the attack.

Chief Justice of Fars province Kazem Mousavi revealed that they had discovered the “safe house” of the suspects in Sunday’s attack, arresting eight people, all of whom were foreign nationals, according to Iranian state media (IRNA).

One of the gunmen was immediately arrested after the clashes with the security forces at the mausoleum’s gates. Mousavi said that the gunmen has been identified as a Tajikistani national.
From Dawn, the main suspect arrested Sunday night after the attack has been identified as Rahmatollah Nowruzof from Tajikistan.
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