TEHRAN —
Iran announced Monday a suspected accomplice of the shooter who carried out a
deadly attack on a
Shiite Muslim shrine in Shiraz has been arrested, state news
agency IRNA reported.
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At least 13
people were killed last Wednesday in the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the southern
city, according to a revised official toll, in an attack claimed by Daesh.
State media had
initially given a death toll of 15.
“The second
person involved in the terrorist operation at the sacred sanctuary, who
provided support, has been arrested,” said local deputy governor Esmail
Mohebipour, quoted by IRNA.
“The plans to
carry out a terrorist act had been communicated to him,” he added.
The suspect,
arrested Sunday evening in Shiraz, had not entered the shrine, and his alleged
role was not clear.
The intelligence
ministry later announced the arrest of the “second operational element” and
“six supporting elements of the terrorist criminal team”, without further
details.
The perpetrator
of the attack in Shiraz, identified by local media as Hamed Badakhshan, died of
wounds sustained while he was being arrested, a local official said Saturday.
The shooting at
the shrine came on the same day that thousands of people across Iran paid
tribute to
Mahsa Amini, 40 days after her death in police custody.
Amini, 22, died
on September 16, three days after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran
for allegedly breaching the country’s Islamic dress code for women.
Remarks made
Thursday by President Ebrahim Raisi appeared to link the Shiraz attack, one of
the country’s deadliest in years, with the protests and “riots” following
Amini’s death.
In funeral
processions for victims in Shiraz on Saturday, crowds chanted slogans
condemning the US, Israel, and Britain for allegedly being “behind the riots”.
During the mourning
ceremony, Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, head of the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, urged the “limited number of youths deceived” by Iran’s enemies to put
an end to the unrest.
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