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Iran Says It Killed Mastermind Of Deadly Attacks On Parliament And Mausoleum

Iran's Iranian Minister of Intelligence also said that in the past three months, Iran has broken up 25 terrorist teams.
Iranian police officers secure the area around the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini following an assault there and on the country's parliament building that left at least 17 people dead last week. / Shutterstock.com

Iran says security forces have killed the "mastermind and main commander" of last week's attacks in Tehran that killed 17 people. ISIS had claimed responsibility for the violence at the

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