Fifteen dead in attack on Shiite shrine in Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : The term takfiri in Iran and in several other countries refers to radical Sunni Islamist groups.
39% : He also condemned "the enemies of Iran" who attempt to "divide the united ranks of the nation... through violence and terror", in a statement released by his office.
38% : The attack was the second deadliest this year against a Shiite shrine in Iran.
34% :Wednesday's attack comes as Iran has been rocked by street protests since the death of Mahsa Amini last month after she was arrested by the morality police for allegedly violating the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women.
28% : And in 2018, 24 people were killed in an attack in Ahvaz, in southwestern Iran, in an assault claimed by IS, though Iran accused a separatist group of responsibility.
27% :IS claimed its first attack in Iran in 2017 when armed men and suicide bombers attacked the seat of parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic republic, killing 17 people and wounding dozens.

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