Fifteen killed in Shia mausoleum, attack on in southern Iran
Initial reports said three assailants had fired at pilgrims, and staff at the Shia Muslim shrine entrancpolice had arrested two.
But the local judiciary chief said, "only one terrorist was involved". State TV also reported one arrest.
The so-called Islamic State group (IS) said it had carried out the attack.
State media also alleged that "takfiri terrorists" - a label Tehran uses for Sunni Muslim militants like IS - were responsible.
Irna reported that two children and a woman were among the dead and published a photograph of bodies wrapped in sheets in a courtyard. Other photos showed broken glass and pools of blood.
President Ebrahim Raisi vowed a swift and firm response.
"This crime will not go unanswered, and the security and law enforcement forces will teach a lesson to those who designed and carried out the attack," Mr Raisi said.
The mausoleum includes the tombs of two sons of the seventh Shia Imam Musa al-Kadhim, who are also the brothers of the eighth Imam Ali al-Rida.
Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said attacks targeting religious sites are "especially heinous".
In April, two Shia clerics were killed in a knife attack at a revered Shia shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
The assailant, who officials said was an ethnic Uzbek man from Afghanistan with radical Sunni views, was hanged in June.
His motive was not made public, but the interior minister described it as a "terrorist attack" and blamed "takfiris".
IS has carried out severe attacks in Iran before. In 2017, the group was responsible for a pair of deadly twin bombings that targeted the parliament building and the tomb of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Khomeini.
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