{"id":15964,"date":"2018-09-22T07:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T07:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15964"},"modified":"2018-09-22T07:24:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T07:24:40","slug":"several-killed-in-attack-on-military-parade-in-southwest-iran-state-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15964","title":{"rendered":"Several killed in attack on military parade in southwest Iran: State TV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nTEHRAN:\u00a0Gunmen attacked a military parade in the southwest Iranian city of Ahvaz on Saturday, killing at least 8 members of the elite Revolutionary Guard and wounding 20 people, state media said.
The state-run IRNA news agency reported that the wounded included a woman and a child but did not elaborate.<\/p>\n

\nThe report described the assailants as “Takifiri gunmen,” a term previously used to describe Daesh.<\/p>\n

\nThe semi-official Fars news agency, which is close to the elite Revolutionary Guard, said two gunmen on a motorcycle wearing khaki uniforms carried out the attack.<\/p>\n

\nState television showed images of the immediate aftermath. In it, paramedics could be seen helping someone in military fatigues laying on the ground. Other armed security personnel shouted at each other in front of what appeared to be a viewing stand for the parade.<\/p>\n

\nThe semi-official ISNA news agency published photographs of the attack’s aftermath, with bloodied troops in dress uniforms helping each other walk away. The attack struck on Ahvaz’s Quds, or Jerusalem, Boulevard.<\/p>\n

\nThere was no immediate claim of responsibility.<\/p>\n

\nSaturday’s attack comes after a coordinated June 7, 2017 Dash assault on parliament and the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran. That attack had at that point been the only one by the extremists inside of Iran, which has been deeply involved in the wars in Iraq and Syria where the militants once held vast territory.<\/p>\n

\nAt least 18 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in the 2017 attack that saw gunmen carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and explosives storm the parliament complex where a legislative session had been in progress, starting an hours-long siege. Meanwhile, gunmen and suicide bombers also struck outside Khomeini’s mausoleum on Tehran’s southern outskirts. Khomeini led the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Western-backed shah to become Iran’s first supreme leader until his death in 1989.<\/p>\n

\nAhvaz is the capital of Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province. The province in the past has seen Arab separatists attack oil pipelines.<\/p>\n

\nThe assault shocked Tehran, which largely has avoided militant attacks in the decades after the tumult surrounding the Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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