News Snapshot:
Even as gun battles raged outside their chamber, punctuated by the occasional shot from snipers stationed across the road, Iran’s members of Parliament seemed defiantly cheerful. Some posted selfies , while others waved to television cameras as they waited for rescue. Five Islamic State jihadists, reported to have been dressed in women’s clothes, had stormed the building, taking 18 lives. Up the road, suicide bombers tried to obliterate the mausoleum of the patriarch of Iran’s Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Last week’s murderous bombings in Kerman, which claimed nearly a hundred lives, targeted mourners gathered to commemorate the killing of...
