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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Maziar Motamedi

Iran blames ISIL for shrine attack, arrests foreign nationals

This is the second time in less than a year that the shrine is being attacked [ISNA News Agency via AFP]

Tehran, Iran – Iran has blamed the ISIL (ISIS) armed group for the second attack in less than a year on a major shrine in southern Shiraz and arrested a group of foreign nationals for the assault.

“The motivation of this Daeshi [ISIL-affliated] individual was to take revenge for the executions of the two terrorists of the previous incident,” said the governor of the province of Fars, where the shooting occurred.

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