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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 07 2017, @05:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the nobody-is-safe dept.

Terrorists have attacked the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum and Iranian parliament in two nearly simultaneous incidents:

There have been multiple attacks in the Iranian capital of Tehran, according to state media. A woman was arrested after a bomb attack and shooting spree wounded two people at the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum south of the city Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reports. The news agency reported that a second attacker is currently surrounded by security officers.

That attack occurred at the same time as a shooting in the Iranian parliament, in which at least three people were injured after an attacker stormed the building in central Tehran, according to state-run Press TV.

Also at Washington Post, BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera, and Tehran Times.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:39PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2017, @07:39PM (#522159)

    Statistically you goof. Terrorist attacks are scary, but statistically you're more likely to die from just about anything else. You're pushing a narrative of fear and xenophobia unfounded in reality

    In the UK today, we've had a nursery worker slashed with a knife by three females "for Allah", a youth with a machete apprehended by police in Barking and reports of a similar incident in Luton.

    To ignore the responsibility the major world players have in the Middle East is willful ignorance.

    Do you mean "for"? Yet almost nobody supports interventionist geopolitik.

    You're equating a huge percentage of the world's population (muslims) with the extremists.

    The word I used was "islamist". [oxforddictionaries.com]

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:43AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:43AM (#522423) Journal

    You actually have a place called Barking? That's apropos somehow. I'd like to think that's an example of dry British self-deprecation.

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...