Gunmen attack parliament and mausoleum, kill 1
ISNA news agency quoted a member of the parliament as saying that all the parliament doors were shut and one of the assailants was surrounded by the security forces.
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Lawmaker Elias Hazrati said three assailants, one with a pistol and two with AK-47 assault rifles, raided parliament, according the state television website.
In a separate incident, an armed man opened fire at the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini and wounded a number of people, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
ISNA quoted an unnamed source saying that the attacker at the mausoleum had blown himself up.
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Tasmin said the identity and the motivation of the assailant was still unclear.
Ayatollah Khomeini launched the Islamic revolution in 1979.
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