Tasnim � The main defendant in the June 2017 attacks in Tehran by Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group went to trial on Sunday morning, after Tehran�s prosecutor general brought criminal charges against all eight defendants in the first court session.


The main defendant�had left Iran three years ago to join the Daesh terrorist group.

According to the prosecutor general, the main defendant re-entered Iran illegally in 2017 with a terrorist team wearing a suicide belt. He was later accommodated in a rented house with a fake ID, and was excluded from the June 2017 operations to carry out other plots.

In June 2017, terrorists launched simultaneous attacks on Iran�s parliament building and on the mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini in Tehran.

Daesh�claimed responsibility for the attacks, which killed 17 people and wounded more than 40.

All five gunmen directly involved in the attacks were killed by security forces.