Gunman opens fire at prominent Shiite shrine in southern Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : It draws pilgrims to Shiraz, which is 420 miles south of Iran's capital, Tehran.
38% : Iran also faces lingering unrest and economic turmoil amid tensions with the West.
38% : Iran has backed Syria's embattled Bashar Assad during his country's civil war.
35% : The Islamic State group claimed the assault, which Iran said had been carried out by a man from Tajikistan, who later died in a hospital after succumbing to injuries he suffered while being detained by security forces.
31% : However, Iran has faced attacks in the past from the Sunni extremists of the so-called Islamic State group, who view Shiites as heretics.
15% : The worst assault from Islamic State militants in Iran came in a June 2017 attack that killed at least 18 people and wounded more than 50 in Tehran as its gunmen stormed parliament and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's mausoleum.

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