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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 Thursday June 08 2017, @04:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @04:49PM (#522673)

    So we often here calls for more stories, so why would your two stories not be news but this one is? Or some of the other lame stories TMB submits in order to troll people? I've had stories that didn't make it in that seemed like easy wins. What gives?

  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday June 09 2017, @01:21AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Friday June 09 2017, @01:21AM (#522886) Journal

    An editor sent me a note about the Jakarta story. The note has disappeared now (my messages disappear more quickly than they ought to) but I recall that it was to the effect that that sort of attack was a fairly typical occurrence for that part of the world. As for the story about the Dhaka attack, I don't recall clearly, but I think there was a note saying it was rejected because the event happened in Bangladesh. I've also gotten a note saying that too many "political" stories were being submitted; that note has also disappeared, but the sentiment was expressed in a comment by one of the editors:

    Welcome to the Politics Nexus, boys and girls. The next time anyone asks why we don't run more political articles, please remember this dumpster fire.

    -- /politics/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=18256&page=2&cid=473669#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]

    When I submitted several stories that weren't about science or technology, they were removed from the queue without being explicitly rejected. I thought it was a bug, but NCommander explained that it's an option the editors have, which isn't normally used to indicate rejection:

    /meta/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=19640&page=1&cid=516941#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]