Iran arrests 8 after attacks on parliament, Khomeini shrine

Iran's authorities have arrested eight people following the ISIS-claimed attacks on Iran's parliament and the shrine of AyatollahRuhollahKhomeini that killed 17 people in Tehran, the state-runIRNAnews agency said Saturday.

The report quotedAhmadFazelian, chief justice ofAlborzprovince west of Tehran, as saying: "These agents who were supporters of the two terrorist groups, and had full co-ordination with them, were arrested and they were delivered to Tehran's judicial and security authorities."

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Iran police Chief Gen.HosseinAshtarisaid several people with connections to the attackers were arrested around the capital area.

Two guards, 10 government staffers and five civilians were killed in the attacks that simultaneously targeted the country's parliament and the shrine of the late founder of the Islamic Republic AyatollahRuhollahKhomeini. The Interior Ministry in a statement increased the number of wounded to 52.

On Thursday, Iranian authorities said the assailants were Iranian nationals and that they had arrested six suspects, including one woman, since the attack Wednesday in Tehran.

On Friday, the Intelligence Ministry announced that it had detained 41 suspects in Tehran and the western Kurdish provinces. It called the detainees "elements of theWahhabiIS group," and said they were involved in operations, communication and logistics for the local Islamic State group cell.

Last August, the government announced it had executed a number of Kurdish Islamic extremists from a group known asTowhidand Jihad after convicting them of armed robbery, killing civilians and planning bomb attacks.