The ’Splainer (as in, “You’ve got some ’splaining to do”) is an occasional feature in which RNS gives you everything you need to know about current events to help you hold your own at the water cooler.
(RNS) At least 12 people were killed and dozens more injured when six terrorists with assault rifles and suicide vests attacked the Iranian Parliament and the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic.
Wednesday’s (June 7) attack was the worst terrorist strike against the Islamic Republic in years and the first inside Iran by the Islamic State group, or ISIS, which claimed responsibility.
But what is the tomb of Iran’s revolutionary founder and what does it mean to Iranians?
