Members of Iranian forces run during a gunmen attack at the parliament's building in central Tehran, Iran, June 7, 2017. Reuters
Babak Dehghanpisheh, Reuters: ISIS is going after Iran
* ISIS militants coming from the Iran-Iraq border region are conducting attacks on Iran.
* Last June, ISIS attacked Tehran and managed to get inside of the Iranian Parliament building.
* Many of the militants are ethnic Kurds, which shows that ISIS is taking advantage of Iran's minority Kurdish population that has been fighting for an independent state for decades.
HALABJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Islamic State may be on the wane in Iraq and Syria but for Iran, the threat is still strong, centered on Kurdish communities along the Iraq-Iran border where militants have operated in recent years.
The locals even have a nickname for the area, "Tora Bora", after the mountain hideout al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden fled to after the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001, a senior Iraqi security official in the border region said.
In late January, three Revolutionary Guards were killed in the Bamo region fighting 21 Islamic State militants who had sneaked in from Iraq. Three militants detonated suicide vests and two others were killed in the clash, the Guards said.
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WNU Editor: Iran has faced multiple threats from its many minorities over the years .... the Islamic State is just newest one.
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