A fresh video depicting the entire attack—which was directed at a sacred site in Irene—emerged yesterday, Thursday. In it, a shooter appears to open fire on worshippers at the “Shahjrag Shrine” in Shiraz, southern Iran, killing 15 people and injuring 40 more.
A number of cameras were also set up for internal surveillance, and he continued shooting those whose injuries proved not to be life-threatening.
The Fars Governorate’s police chief said yesterday on IRIB channel screen Local television that security forces in the shrine were also targeted “before he was arrested and shot” in the attack carried out by one striker on Wednesday. This information was confirmed by subsequent Iranian reports on Thursday.
Although the extremist “ISIS” group claimed responsibility for the attack by broadcasting it on its private channel on the messaging app Telegram, a number of media users, including journalist and religious researcher Muhammad Akbarin who lives in Paris, suggested that the attack might have been carried out by a different party.
According to “Nour,” a broadcast outlet affiliated with the Supreme Council of Iranian National Security, the striker, who does not possess Iranian citizenship, arrived in a car, entered the shrine, and then targeted the worshipers at his entrance. However, witnesses claimed that the attacker arrived in a car, entered the shrine, whose name means “King of Light,” and then targeted the worshipers at his entrance.
According to the Iranian “IRNA” news agency, Wednesday nights are when worshipers congregate at the shrine, and this is one of the busiest times.
As for the official authorities, “I blaming the protests that have been going on for more than a month in the country, and loading the official attack of the demonstrators,” according to Al -Arabiya.
Net reported yesterday, on Thursday, in a news article that the attacker “”shot the worshipers who sought to flee or hide in the hallways”” after concealing his gun in a bag.
Watch the complete ISIS assault that resulted in 15 deaths in Iran.
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