TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader hit out at the United States and Saudi Arabia during the funerals on Friday for those slain in the first attacks in the country claimed by the Islamic State group.

The assault by gunmen and suicide bombers Wednesday on Tehran’s parliament complex and the shrine of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini killed 17 people and wounded more than 50.

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