Attack on Iranian military parade in Ahvaz, Iran, September 22, 2018. (photo credit: ISNA)
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Eleven people, including eight or nine military personnel, were reported killed after gunmen opened fire during a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Saturday, Iranian media reported.
“Shooting began by several gunmen from behind the stand during the parade. There are several killed and injured,” a correspondent told state television.
More than 30 were injured in the attack, local officials told ISNA. Of the four attackers, two were killed by security forces and two were arrested, the officials said.
Eyewitnesses reported that the attackers were wearing military dress and that the shooting lasted for several minutes, the semi-official Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported. Participants and spectators of the parade threw themselves to the ground at the sound of the gunfire.
اولین تصاویر از حمله مسلحانه به رژه ی نیروهای مسلح در #اهواز
هنوز تعداد کشته شدگان مجروحین مشخص نیست pic.twitter.com/jx0jbNVaJC— پسر نوح (@PesarNoah) September 22, 2018
State television blamed “takfiri elements,” a reference to Islamist militants, for the attack in Ahvaz, the center of Khuzestan province, which has been the site of sporadic protests by Iran’s Arab minority.
An unnamed spokesman for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps blamed the attack on a local Arab terrorist group, Al-Ahwaziya, and claimed that the attackers had the backing of Iran’s regional rival Saudi Arabia.
The spokesman also said that the attackers directed their fire at civilians in the crowd as well as members of the armed forces participating in the parade, ISNA reported.
This is not the only recent terrorist incident on Iranian soil. Last June, Islamic State suicide bombers and gunmen attacked Iran’s parliament and the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran, killing 18. Recent years have also seen attacks by armed militias affiliated with Kurdish and Balochi separatist movements.
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